Shock value: The $60,000 electric motorcycle

Love 'em or hate 'em, electric bikes are an opportunity to look at motorcycle design with fresh eyes. Sure, they still need wheels, suspension and handlebars—but they don't need gas tanks or exhausts. We spend our days looking at ‘unconventional’ bikes, so we get excited when we see something completely new. And despite the eye-watering price tag, we’re rather taken with the radical ‘e-raw’ from Essence Motocycles of Lyon, France. Essence founder Martin Hulin starting working on the e-raw concept two years ago as an after hours project. He assembled a group of craftsmen to build a rolling prototype, which...