Move over Zero S

[hootmon]

It's coming...

Electric Harley

[TLRam1]

They say it's on tour.

I like to see them branching out as long as it builds and not take away from there core.

[v4_jeff]

This will be a very very interesting experiment to watch. Of course I want to ride the thing and compare it directly to my Zero, but I'm more interested in what kind of reception they'll get from all established riders but especially the Harley crowd. This, IMO, is exactly what the fledgling electric motorcycle industry needs - for the last manufacturer you'd ever expect to build one, to build one. There will be love, there will be hate, and I'm not sure what we're gonna' see in between. Someone pop some popcorn, the show's about to start...

[guywheatley]

Where will it get the oil to leak when parked?

[hootmon]

This will be a very very interesting experiment to watch. Of course I want to ride the thing and compare it directly to my Zero, but I'm more interested in what kind of reception they'll get from all established riders but especially the Harley crowd. This, IMO, is exactly what the fledgling electric motorcycle industry needs - for the last manufacturer you'd ever expect to build one, to build one. There will be love, there will be hate, and I'm not sure what we're gonna' see in between. Someone pop some popcorn, the show's about to start...

Quite true...
Not loud
More like a Buell than a SoftTail
Wonder what the range will be...
I think I heard 0-60 in 4 seconds... How does that compare to the Zero?

[TLRam1]

There will be love, there will be hate.

They're already used to that, sorta fits right in.

[v4_jeff]

Wonder what the range will be...
I think I heard 0-60 in 4 seconds... How does that compare to the Zero?

I'm seeing range quoted at 53 miles. I don't know if that's highway speeds, city riding, or what.

My baby Zero with the smallest battery pack and motor controller beats it in almost all specs.

Spec	Harley	Zero
HP	74	54
Torque	52	67
0-60	under 4 sec	3.7 sec
Battery	7Kwh	8.5Kwh (up to 14.7Kwh)
Range	53 (??)	69 (combined)

The flagship Zero SR beats it even more with 67hp and 106lb-ft of torque for a 0-60 of 3.3 secs and a range of over 170 miles at city speeds, near 100 at 75mph.

Of course the Harley is just a demo mule, I'd imagine that things would change significantly should they decide to do a production run.

[Smoked U]

I'm seeing range quoted at 53 miles. I don't know if that's highway speeds, city riding, or what.


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Maybe they can come up with a trailer option to pull along with a bigger battery

[v4_jeff]

Maybe they can come up with a trailer option to pull along with a bigger battery

haha... There's a Zero rider in Washington working on exactly that! He's using a MotoMule trailer as a base, batteries scavenged from a crashed Nissan Leaf.