As for me if I was to put down 20 grand for a two wheeler I may as well take some fat ars couch like a HD or the R18, atealst in 10-20 years it´s going to have still a value almost unchanged to today if not greater considering the destruction the retards in davos are driving forward. Your "high voltage" horse is worthless the day the the battery needs replacement. Better flush the cash of folks like Schwab or Gates down the toilet, everyone would be better off.
I have yet to hear of anyone needing a battery replacement due to long usage of a Zero. The battery packs that I have heard being replaced by Zero owners were always done at Zero's cost during their 5-year warranty because of factory assembly, battery cell, or BMS defects.
I have the largest battery pack available (16.6 kWh nominal) when I bought my current Zero in 2018. At the time Zero claimed that the pack would last for 380,000 miles before reaching 80% of its original capacity. When was the last time anyone here kept a motorcycle for that long? (Frankly, I doubt that the Zero chassis would last much past 100K before needing replacement of every one of it moving parts - including the motor.) BTW, my daughter is riding my old 2014 Zero and it still runs as well after 8 years and has as long a range as it did when new.
However, I do agree that the current electric freeway-legal motorcycles are still too expensive, especially as the "major" brands in the U.S., Zero, Energica and LiveWireOne, all cost too much for what you get as these manufacturers are focused on the high end of the market in order to push both the technology, their performance claims and their profits. However, Zero does have a model that sells for around $10K, which with the 10% federal IRS income tax credit and hundreds of dollars of rebates by a few states, like California, does get its price, if not its performance, into the 600cc gas-powered motorcycle price range. It would be helpful if the U.S. electric motorcycle manufacturers would offer more "budget" EVs to the market.
What is odd is why the Chinese, that sell millions of electric motorbikes and scooters every year haven't bothered to enter the North American market. Maybe they are happy to just sell electric bicycles here and avoid the cost of setting up dealerships, supply, service and other issues that go along with selling highway-legal vehicles here.
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