It is depressing as hell being stuck in a fossil fuel obsessed world when we have had other viable options for decades, but take heart when you see electric dirt bikes beginning to proliferate in war, if Electric Vehicles are winning on the cutting edge of the frontline for reasons that have nothing to do with environmentalism, the future is far closer than it seems…
Also god damn I really hate loud dirtbikes and ATVs in nature so looking forward to these undercutting fossil fuel powered dirtbikes everywhere…
From what I read it’s more to do with the lack of space for proper batteries - the form factor of bikes means you can’t really fit that much power storage in them. Even though they’re lighter than cars and thus use less power to go the same distance, they still have to move the weight of the passenger plus more batteries increase weight.
All of that put together means they can’t have as much range as cars with similar performance.