Time passes very quickly, as much as a year and a half since Honda made us known the first details of the already known E-clutch. As the brand itself defined it at the time, we are facing “The first automatic clutch control system for motorcycles with conventional change.”
The e-clutch will arrive soon to other models
After being officially launched in April 2024, together with the new CBR650R and CB650R, thus becoming the first Honda models to equip it, several times the rumor has run that it will soon be offered as an option in other models of the Japanese firm. For example, in the expected CB400 Four, or also in a renewed NT110 2025, currently with the possibility of incorporating the automatic DCT change.
The fact is that in the last hours a new aspiring is added to this list to integrate the e-clutch into its optional list, the CB1000R. A model in which the possibility of arriving in the form of an electricity version also would be coupled, as some of the images of the patent registration to the press barely a few months ago.
However, taking into account the models on which Honda has focused maximum attention in recent times, everything indicates that it is more possible that the e-clutch system before joining the most recent models such as the CB1000 Hornet. Basically, because their neo-back sports sister could be replaced or even eliminated from the offer of some countries.
In any case, guiding us specifically for the images of the patent registration that we have met by the teammates Down, there is no doubt that the model chosen to install in the first instance the e-clutch technology would be the aforementioned CB1000R. Anyway, we must refer to this request from the year 2023, although it has been now when we have been aware of its existence.
Said all this and returning to the system itself, for those who still do not know its properties and what it has meant in the matter of innovation within the two -wheeled sector, it is rigorous to clarify that we are facing a new system allows some changes of rapid and precise marches, while getting some soft outputs and stops.
Likewise, unlike the current DCT, the Honda e-Clutch does not suffer from the ballast that is a high weight of weight, as if it occurs with the automatic brand of the brand (10 kg for the least of 2 kg of the latter). On the other hand, this state -of -the -art technological flaps combines elements of existing technologies of the factory, such as quickshifters, traditional manual clutches and the double clutch transmission of Honda.
At this point we only have to wait for Honda to continue offering direct information its strategic plans in reference to e-clutch, but above all that clarifies with concise wood that models will be the following to adopt this technology.
It is clear that the system has come to stay, without any doubt, inviting the user to discover the perfect combination between sportsmanship and versatility in the day to day.
