I don't feel sorry for HD, though. They pretty much dug their own grave. The end of an era!
If it doesn’t go putt putt putt putt, whats the point?
How many miles to a gallon does a typical mid sized bike get and how big is the gas tank...that's what I would want to know. So let's say you have a 4-5 gallon tank and get 40 miles per gallon. That gives you a 160-200 mile cruising range. I would think that after 4 hours on a bike you'd want to stretch your legs and fill up. But if the fill up takes 8 hours after 100 miles, it's not a long ride.
Motorcycle Pingy!.....................
Born to be mild!
With an electric bike, where does the VARROOOM come from? The saying USED TO be, “I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse, than a brother on a Jap bike!” Wouldn’t that include electric ones?
“I was thinking that an electric motorcycle”
If your considering the Harley one be prepared to spend $30k.
Still interested?
It would take you weeks to get to Sturges if you were riding from CA.
I wonder how big the amp and speakers are to create the macho exhaust sound.
My standard ride is close to 200 miles and that’s for lunch somewhere.
Commuting and other short trips are the only thing EVs will be good for without some breakthrough in tech. No such thing as driving/riding 60mph for 8 hours until they have a 480 mile range.
We moved from FL to MO ten years ago. I drove a 1 ton hauling a 35 foot 5th wheel that had a couple thousand pounds of stuff in it, all my tools, welder, compressor and much household stuff. My wife drove a 1 ton, 14 foot box truck hauling a car trailer with a 4x4 S10 Blazer on it and light items in the box.
Took us 4 days. It would take 4 weeks to do that with EVs.
The beach is about 200 miles from Charlotte...about a four hour ride on a gas-guzzler motorcycle.
The same trip on an electric motorcycle will be 2 hours+8 hours+2 hours. And maybe an additional 8 hours if you don’t quite make it the last few miles to the beach. Anywhere from 12 hours to 20 hours on the E-motorcycle vs 4 hours on the gas-powered ride. Then there’s the problem of finding a charging station.
Let me think about that a moment...
The sport bikes are no-doubt fun and capable, but not everyone wants to go 150 mph or pay 2x the cost of a gas sport bike.
The scooters / urban bikes make a lot of sense - if you have an urban setting where you can reasonably/safely park & charge the bike.
That leaves the rest of us kind of out in the cold. Someone who wants/needs highway speed capability but not sport-bike zoom, enough range to commute and run errands for several days without having to find a place to charge it every time it is parked.
How about these specs EV bike manufacturers:
200 mi range, which includes about 50 mi of 65 to 70 mph highway. The remaining 150 mi a mix of urban/rural.
100 mi range two-up.
75 or 80 mph top speed.
Recharge overnight (8 to 10 hrs) from 0% through standard plug in my garage.
Recharge 50% or so in 15 min at an EV charging station.
Cost around $10K.
How can you get to Sturgis in electric HD?
It would probably take two weeks to get there, one way!
And what about the HD sound?
Instead of spinning it out to existing shareholders who paid for the R&D. Way to go, HD.
Without the ear splitting racket, do not see the usual “lifestyle” HD owners biting.
Budda, budda, pop, flatch, wheeze
I’d be willing to bet there are some Xiden bucks in there for them on this endeavor....
Harley-Davidson LiveWire full specs
So far we’ve known that the LiveWire has a city range of 146 miles (235 km) and a 0-60 mph (0-97 km/h) time of around 3 to 3.5 seconds.
We also knew that Harley-Davidson’s first electric model would feature Level 3 DC Fast Charging that would top up the battery from 0-80% in 40 minutes or 0-100% in 60 minutes.
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