{"id":46,"date":"2020-10-15T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-06-19T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:22:03","slug":"harley-davidson-shows-off-ideas-for-future-electric-motorcycles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson shows off ideas for future electric motorcycles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/official\/\">OFFICIAL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Middleweight EV concept refines a flat track concept sketched in 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bloggers\/jonathon-ramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/v\/403eb724c366e42909243114648e80ceb7bd0a68\/img\/editors\/johnathon-ramsey.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bloggers\/jonathon-ramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JONATHON RAMSEY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/bloggers\/jonathon-ramsey\/rss.xml\"><\/a>Jan 28th 2020 at 9:20AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">2<\/a><\/em>comments<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims3\/GLOB\/legacy_thumbnail\/800x450\/format\/jpg\/quality\/85\/https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/os\/ab\/_cms\/2020\/01\/27172551\/H-D-middleweight-EV.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Harley-Davidson putting the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2019\/10\/14\/harley-davidson-livewire-production-halted\/\">LiveWire electric motorcycle on hiatus<\/a>&nbsp;for a brief spell last year, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2020\/01\/28\/hd-shares-fall-lower-revenue\/\">despite its financial difficulties in the present<\/a>, America&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/motorcycles\/\">motorcycle<\/a>&nbsp;maker wants everyone to know that it still has many plans for an electric future. Two years ago, the Milwaukee-based bike builder released sketches&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2018\/07\/30\/harley-davidson-is-expanding-its-ev-team\/\">for a concept electric scooter<\/a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/31\/1683385\/\">concept electric flat track bike<\/a>. Last year H-D took a highly designed version of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/2\/3\/18207435\/harley-davidson-electric-scooter-concept-motorcycle-x-games-prototype\">electric scooter to the Consumer Electronics Show<\/a>, at the same time as it took a highly unfinished version to the Winter X Games in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/chrysler\/aspen\/\">Aspen<\/a>, Colorado. To start this year, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harley-davidson.com\/us\/en\/motorcycles\/electric.html\">bike maker posted two images<\/a>&nbsp;on a page of its website devoted to electric possibilities. Included among them are a production-looking version of the scooter, and a more fleshed out version of the flat tracker.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harley calls the oval racer its &#8220;middleweight&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/electric\/\">EV<\/a>&nbsp;concept&#8221; and says it &#8220;bridges our EV technology to our rich history of racing and the legendary XR750.&#8221; Designed as an &#8220;EV for the quick and competitive,&#8221; the street-legal upright ride is intended to serve three purposes, as either an &#8220;ultimate city bike, high-performance run-about or next-gen short tracker.&#8221; Compared to the drawing of two years ago, the streetfighter gives a better glimpse at its LED candy bar headlight, features a much larger battery, a more realistic fairing-seat combo, integrated space for a number plate, and a license plate in between turn signals on a fairing curved around the rear wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims3\/GLOB\/legacy_thumbnail\/1600x1200\/format\/jpg\/quality\/85\/https:\/\/s.aolcdn.com\/os\/ab\/_cms\/2020\/01\/28200346\/harley_davidson_lightweight_ev_scooter_concept.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Harley christened the electric scooter its &#8220;lightweight EV concept&#8221; made to &#8220;reimagine the urban commute.&#8221; Retro handlebars hold brake levers for both wheels and stand over telescopic forks, a single top tube supports a banana seat, double-down tubes cradle the battery and motor. Fattish tires would be more than capable of swallowing anything a rider is likely to find on the sidewalk or in the bike lane, assuming that&#8217;s where this is mean to be ridden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no timeline for production for either concept, although the scooter looks like it&#8217;s ready to roll down an assembly line right now. Harley has the LiveWire for adults and electric balance bicycles for tykes on sale now, and e-bikes on the way, but it&#8217;s clear that other products must come to fill the gap. The page promises a &#8220;commitment to a full lineup of electric two-wheelers designed to establish the company as the leader in electrification of mobility over the next several years.&#8221; If the bike maker can come with price and specs to get that middleweight concept near enough to be competitive with a Zero motorcycle, they could have something special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFFICIAL Middleweight EV concept refines a flat track concept sketched in 2018 JONATHON RAMSEYJan 28th 2020 at 9:20AM 2comments Despite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bike","category-news","tag-bike","tag-bikes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vahanmaster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}