Great concept, electric bikes and atv's, but will they get you way out there and back again on a charge? Loaded with a large animal? (Not to mention wide bodied hunters)

I saw this Ecycle on TV and thought it looked great. They ran it against a conventional dirt bike and it did well. The great thing about EVs is that you can charge them from solar panels, wind turbines or even small hydropower units at your cabin. No need to mix or store fuel, no need to put stabilizer in and on many EVs you can tap off the batteries with an inverter and power up other stuff. I have an electric scooter I use to get to work in warm weather as well as an old 3 wheeled golf cart (my UTV) and an electric tractor for farm work. EVs are the way to go!

doesn't matter if its quiet it complecats the simplicity of the sport.besides i like the exersise

It's Evil!!!!!!

All ATV's and hunting dirt bikes are evil!!!!!

walking to the stand is part of hunting.

It's cute.

Having almost killed myself on dirt bikes several times in my wayward youth I would never even think about hunting with one. I don't even like ATV's for hunting. Isn't the whole purpose of the sport getting outside, off your fat a$$ and communing with nature? Plus the rear sprocket needs some camo paint...

Before moving to Eastern NC where there are logging roads every 10 feet or so I routinely walked a mile in the dark up a mountain to hunt whitetails in the Jefferson National Forest, VA and still do when I can manage to make it back. These areas were foot traffic only by law. Getting a deer and only having to drag it half a mile was a good day. A bad day was helping my buddy drag a deer he killed in the last minute of legal hours from the top of the mountain to the creek bottom roughly two miles of laurels and rhododendron.Keep in mind I am 5'9" and push around 250lbs of spare tire the midsection. You can be an overweight beer drinkin American and still not be lazy.
ATV and dirt bikes have a place but I do not believe it is in hunting. Unless there is a disability of some sort. I will give the new electric atv's and this bike credit though of reducing impact on my hunting by reducing noise pollution. At least these people do have the desire to leave the pick-up. I can't tell you how many swivel seated shooting platforms I have seem mounted in pick-up beds since moving to NC.

If I needed to get deep and then walk the rest of the way, I'd use that 8 grand and buy an atv. You can carry more gear (partner) and bring home game. I don't know the price of an electric atv, think modified golf cart.