BMW‘s motorcycle design has always been based on the layout of the bike’s powerplants, so the original machines’ visual center was the low-slung horizontally opposed twin-cylinder engine, with the cylinder barrels jutting out each side of the bike.
The company thinks that future electric motorcycles should similarly underscore their power source, so the BMW Motorrad Concept Link looks almost scooter-like, with its batteries packed flat into the bike’s bottom, its electric motor hidden in its rear wheel and the familiar gas tank nowhere to be found.