Abstract
- J Balvin has unveiled his first electrical motorbike, a collaboration between his inventive company, VVT, and DAB Motors.
- The design options totally enclosed wheels, a modern windshield, a deep matte purple physique, and all-over graphic sticker decorations.
Final month, J Balvin celebrated his monumental fortieth birthday with a casino-themed bash in Tuscany’s rolling vineyards that was attended by the likes of Daddy Yankee, Sofia Vergara, and Zion. The star of the night time, nevertheless, was not an A-lister however a one-of-one, bright-red, electrical motorbike, the primary to return from Balvin’s inventive studio VVT (Vita Veloce Crew), which he based final 12 months with designer Mattias Gollin.
Designed in collaboration with DAB Motors, the bubbly bike’s arrival on the affair was fairly the shock for Balvin. “He knew the DAB x VVT bike was coming,” stated Gollin and Simon Dabadie, founding father of DAB. “However he had no concept when it might be prepared. We saved the manufacturing of the motorbike utterly secret. Rolling it out at Castello di Velona, surrounded by pals—that second felt particular.”
With AI-powered design instruments and 3D-modeling capabilities, the prototype was dropped at life in simply three weeks. “Half sculpture, half anime, and totally rideable,” the bike was constructed on DAB’s 1α platform with totally enclosed wheels, a modern windshield, a deep matte purple physique, and all-over graphic sticker decorations — all in a bid to create a machine that appears prefer it got here straight out of a well-liked Japanese animated film.
From a technical perspective, the two-seater motorbike has a high velocity of 130 km/hr, with a zero to 100% charging time of three hours and half-hour (suitable with each residence sockets and Sort 2 stations). The design additionally produces a multi-sensory expertise, with sound-absorbing foam on the wheel covers and rims that creates a low-frequency tone, in addition to atmospheric LED gentle strips within the wheels.
“It’s cinematic, however useful, we needed to construct one thing that felt like driving by means of a dream,” Gollin and Dabadie concluded.
See J Balvin’s first electrical motorbike, made in collaboration with DAB Motors, above.
