Remember this girl? Yeah, me too.
In what has to now be the longest, most drawn out Electric Vehicle corporate drama in which a company (for which I can’t find any corporate filings, by the way – edit: bingo. Delaware Dept of Corporate Filings ) promises a product (a motorcycle) and reportedly takes deposits yet consistently delays the actually production and delivery of said product, Mission Motors and Mission Motorcycles have now announced they’ve merged into one entity – Mission Electric – and again delayed the release of the Mission R and Mission RS.
In trying to unravel the threads of this particular drama, I offer this: The Mission Timeline. (Trivia of the day? “The company was briefly known as Hum Cycles while it operated in stealth mode.”)
| … | Mission Motors | Mission Motors Racing | Mission Motorcycles |
| 2007 | Mission Motors founded | … | … |
| Feb ’09 | Prototype Mission One PLE revealed | … | … |
| Jun ’09 | … | Mission One races TTXGP on the Isle of Man, finishing 4th place in the PRO class | … |
| Sept ’09 | … | Sets AMA electric motorcycle LSR at the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats for 150.059 mph (average of 2-way pass). | … |
| Oct ’09 | Neiman Marcus LE Mission One announced | … | … |
| Feb ’10 | Forrest North, founder and CEO, stepped down, Mission One delivery delayed, Mission Two rumored | … | … |
| Feb ’10 | Mission Motors appoints Jit Bhattacharya as Interim CEO | … | |
| Jun ’10 | $3.35MM in additional funding secured | … | … |
| Nov ’10 | MissionEVT (Electric Vehicle Technology) launched | … | … |
| Dec ’10 | Misson R motorcycle announced | … | … |
| Jun ’11 | … | Steve Rapp rode the Mission R at the Infineon ReFuel time trials, sets electric motorcycle lap record of 1:43.7 | … |
| Jul ’11 | … | First place victory for Steve Rapp at FIM/TTXGP – Laguna Seca | … |
| Aug ’11 | $9 million Series B funding round secured | … | … |
| Jul ’12 | … | Jim Higgins sets NEDRA record for the SMC/A3 class (street-legal electric motorcycle) with a 1/4 mile time of 10.602 @ 122.57 mph on Mission R | … |
| May ’13 | Mission Motors tweets Mission Motorcycle launch | … | Mission Motors tweets Mission Motorcycle launch |
| May ’13 | … | … | Debuts the Mission RS (160hp, 200 Mile Range, and $58,999) |
| Jun ’13 | … | … | Debuts Mission R |
| Jan ’14 | … | … | Files suit against co-founder Vincent Ip |
| Sep ’14 | Mission Motors, Mission Motorcycles announces (still pending as of 9/25/14) merger as Mission Electric | ||
| Sep ’15 | Mission Motorcycles reportedly files for Chap 7 Bankruptcy |
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