Kawasaki is developing hybrid motorcycles that are capable of being used in EV mode where zero emissions vehicles are required. The battery should probably be large enough that one can ride 25km on battery power in the city which would be at most a 2-3 kW battery pack. I wonder if it’ll be a plug-in hybrid then?
https://youtu.be/BBf3eHhfW3kThree mode: engine only, EV, and hybrid. If no hard requirement for zero emissions centres, I would forego engine only. Hopefully a fourth option is available, EV and go into hybrid mode when speeds of battery levels require the gas engine to turn on. I assume hard EV mode will prevent the gasoline engine from turning on to avoid fines.
This makes sense to me as electric motorcycle range suffers dramatically on the highway compared to cars. Damon Hypersport for example uses about 5 kWh per 100km in city riding but that increases to 7 KWh and 9 kWh per 100 kWh at 96 and 115 km/h respectively. So an opportunity to never use a drop of gas for day to day use while having no range anxiety on the highway.