Yea the moto Cyzz fiz, and good point on the Petronas. I got to spend some time with the Mission Motors guys. That bike was, eventually, beautiful. And pretty dam fast too. We managed 31s on our Superduke at Laguna Seca, best I had. Steve Rapp, ultimately, did the same - on an electric motorcycle. Shit. The first two versions of their electric bike were fugly as hell. The last though? I think they called it the M1?
That was their frame, their swingarm, their bodywork, their batteries, and I think the electric motor they pulled from their building's HVAC unit. Ok they didn't, but they didn't make it I know that. The investors behind the project had different visions than the guys who designed/built/developed the bike. They wanted a return on their investments, the builders wanted to sell electric motorcycles. Investors won, they sold their "engine" management systems to some big car manufacturers and the motorcycle dream was put to bed. Mission Motors was, depending on your perspective, a huge success. One of the founders, a very unique tech geek who drove up to my house in a rusty old wooden deck flatbed pickup truck and made beat-box sounds while I edited his videos, went to Africa to help build villages after they sold the company. Or something like that..
I bet the Petronas suffered a similar fate - dreams can get you far but money is the mountain.