Niobium powers Landspeed Record candidate Lightning Tachyon Nb

CBMM has tied up with US-based Lightning Motorcycles to develop the Tachyon Nb, an electric motorcycle that will attempt to break the land speed record for commercial motorcycles. Yogendra Pratap was one of the very few to get a close-up look at it and discover the role Niobium is going to play in the future of mobility

-  Yogendra Pratap

The 41st element in the periodic table, Niobium is a superconductor electro-mobility that is finding new uses in a range of solutions and its traditional use of making steel tougher and stronger is also finding acceptability in making frames and chassis in mobility solutions. The Brazilian company CBMM, the world's largest producer of Niobium and its derivatives has worked with Lighting Motorcycles to develop the Tachyon Nb - an electric motorcycle aimed at breaking the world land speed record for electric and subsequently for commercial motorcycles.

As I am writing this I would have been expecting to have some numbers to put down from the tests at Bonneville and hopefully to have some breaking news about a new landspeed record. Unfortunately, adverse weather conditions and unseasonal flooding at the Bonneville salt flats put brakes to the season's runs at the Bonneville salt flats and the Tachyon Nb will be put to its paces in November at the Mojave desert and later on at Bonneville when conditions are more suitable on the salt flats.