In February 2009, the company revealed the prototype for their first vehicle, the Mission One PLE (Premiere Limited Edition) at the TED conference.
[8] In August 2011 Mission Motors closed a $9 million Series B round led by private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
[10] The prototype is powered by a longitudinally-mounted electric motor rated at 74 hp and 52 lb-ft of torque, on par with H-D's 833 cc internal combustion engine.
The bike finished in 4th place in the PRO class, with an average speed of 74.091 mph and a lap time of 30 minutes 33.26 seconds.
[21] In June 2011, Steve Rapp rode the Mission R at the ReFuel time trials at Laguna Seca and set an electric motorcycle lap record of 1:43.7.
[22] On July 24, 2011, Steve Rapp rode the Mission R at the joint FIM/TTXGP race at Laguna Seca to a first-place victory,[23] with a margin of 39.995 seconds to second-place finisher MotoCyzsz.
[27] On June 4, 2014, John McGuinness rode the Honda Shinden San for Team Mugen at the Isle of Man TT Zero race[28] to shatter the lap record with a time of 19 min, 17.300 sec for an average speed of 117.366 mph.