The quietest Orange County Chopper yet: the electric Siemens Smart Chopper

The beefy gents at Orange County Choppers have surprised us a few times before, going out of their normal raked-out design brief to customise a Ducati Monster 1100, for example – but they really turned heads this week when Paul Teutul, Snr, presented the company’s – and perhaps the world’s – first all-electric chopper. Commissioned by Siemens and built using recycled steel, LED lighting and environmentally-friendly water-based paints, the Siemens Smart Chopper features a 27hp brushless motor good for a top speed in excess of 100mph, and enough battery life for a 60-mile range. And it’s going up for auction.

While all the bikes that come out of the formidable OCC garage are guaranteed head-turners, the Siemens Smart Chopper is perhaps the most unusual design the lads have ever turned out. It might stick to a reasonably familiar set of lines – raked-out front end, fat, exposed rear wheel, wide bars and swooping curves – but there’s no gas-guzzling, roaring powerplant to act as the centerpiece.

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