Hero MotoCorp working on even more efficient bike technology -EXCLUSIVE

Just like Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India, Hero MotoCorp is also working towards delivering a certain mileage promise for its customers.

The Indian bike manufacturer is already the world’s largest bike maker and a certain promise to make all its products fuel-efficient is what the brand is now working towards.

The Splendor iSmart has been claimed as the most fuel-efficient bike in the world with an economy of 102 km/l. Now, the company isn’t just working towards delivering better mileage but also a sort of promise to its buyers. Honda has its HET (Honda Eco Technology), our sources claim that the new-generation Hero bikes will also have a certain technology to enhance the efficiency even further.

Hero is working on its own 100cc motorcycles for the Indian market. These new 100cc bikes will be powered by an all-new engine that has been developed without any kind of involvement from the Honda brand.

Hero will be looking at getting these bikes in mid-2016 or even by the end of 2016, to be ready to have its own set of bikes in the market and phase out the bikes for which it pays a royalty to Honda.

This contract is due to end in June 2017. The new-generation of Hero bikes will be lighter, quicker and a lot more efficient too. Like the CD100 and CD100 SS, Hero will be looking at getting the SS variants of its new 100cc motorcycle as a mid-life facelift too. Also, the brand will be looking at getting more variants of the 100cc, like an off-roader (similar to Passion TR) and café racer (like the Splendor Classic) if these models continue to have the expected demand that the company is looking at.

Hero should launch the HX250 R Concept’s production ready version by mid-2015, as it will have dual riding modes, Eco (or City) and Sports, fuel-injection called as Dual Mode Fuel Injection (DMFi) and Combi-ABS too. This is a 249cc single-cylinder engine that will produce about 31bhp of power. Hero will be introducing an off-roader version with this engine as either the Impulse 250 or the TR 250R. Expect this to be showcased at the 2016 Auto Expo.