MORE NEW BIKE NEWS! THE 2024 CAN-AM ELECTRIC PULSE & ORIGIN MODELS

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) has provided a brief update on its upcoming Can-Am electric motorcycles, the Pulse roadster and Origin dual-sport. Both models are still undergoing testing while construction is underway for an additional plant in Querétaro, Mexico, where Can-Am and Bombardier will start producing their electric bikes once it is operational. The Querétaro, Mexico, plant is where existing production of Sea-Doo personal watercraft and Rotax engine manufacturing takes place.

The Pulse roadster is wrapped in 50th Anniversary graphics, but by the time it is in showroom it will be Can-Am’s 51st birthday.

The Origin is still street-legal, but it is a little better equipped for trail riding fun than it Pulse brother.

Can-Am is aiming to launch it’s Origin and Pulse electric motorcycles before the end of 2024—with final specs and dealer pre-orders expected next summer. The Pulse street version and Origin Dual Sport model will be powered by Rotax E-Power electric motors. The electric powerplant will be integrated into the swingarm pivot and final drive will be by belt. The location of the nonexistent gas tank will become storage compartment.

The Pulse swingarm mounted Rotax E-power motor uses a fully enclosed belt drive.

The position of the Origin’ electric motor is more than a little Vespa-ish.

The Pulse street model and Origin Dual-Sport model were originally announced by Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) in August of 2022. By October 2022, Can-Am announced that it had broken ground on a new Mexican production facility specifically for their electric bikes.

The rear view of the Pulse.

Although they have working prototypes of the Origin being tested now, it will be at least a year before production models go on sale.

Can-Am was once a successful manufacturer of motocross bikes. Their success was cemented by a sweep of the top three places in the 1974 AMA 250 National Championships by Gary Jones, Marty Tripes and Iimmy Ellis and the 1975 AMA Supercross Championship with Jimmy Ellis.

Gary Jones raced a Can-Am to win the 1974 AMA 250 National Motocross Championship.

They produced their first motocross model, the MX1, in 1973 and did serial production through the MX6 in 1982. Starting with the 1983 Can-Am models, production was moved to the Armstrong motorcycle factory in England for a brief period of time. Since then, Can-Ama has not been in the motocross market and they still aren’t—given that the Pulse is a street bike and the Origin is at best a mild-manner dual sport machine.

 

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