Gives a new definition of "fast". Battery tech as a looooooooooooooong way to go before we will be riding electric motorcycles, though
I don't think so.
I was on the cutting edge of Lithum Ion development in '95-'98, when cost, package, and reliability vs. size and output were in low numbers...
it has exponentially developed in 18 years, and I foresee viable cell technology for bikes, to be within the next 5 years easily.
It took a long time to create a safe "package", which now has been done.
That dragbike was using a bazillion "A" size cells, all tab welded together, to develop almost 2000 amps of power...and that technology was done 8 years ago...
At the time I was doing this work, I constantly pushed the directors to package a larger version of out initial flat pack cells, in large quantity, and in a large "can" for development on motorcycle use. I did manufacture a few on the side, and documented them for future patent disclosure (as I had an extreme amount of material that was suitable for that purpose, but not to spec for small production batteries for Motorolla, our customer). Unfortunatly the division I worked for, sold all of the technology to NGK/Ntk Powerdex
https://www.google.com/patents/US6145280