{"id":26884,"date":"2016-06-15T00:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T07:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/harley-davidsons-all-electric-motorcycles-will-be-on-the-road-within-five-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:14:37","slug":"harley-davidsons-all-electric-motorcycles-will-be-on-the-road-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/harley-davidsons-all-electric-motorcycles-will-be-on-the-road-within-five-years","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson\u2019s all-electric motorcycles will be on the road within five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is known for chrome, freedom, and big, beefy V-twin engines \u2014 but soon, it\u2019ll also be known for something very different.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal<\/i><\/a>, Harley senior VP Sean Cummings says that it\u2019ll put an all-electric motorcycle on the road within five years. You might recall that the Wisconsin-based company built a limited number of LiveWire electric prototypes<\/a> in 2014, letting media and customers go for test rides, but those bikes were never sold to the public and were never intended for a production run. Still, LiveWire\u2019s existence suggested Harley was pretty serious about exploring the notion of an EV motorcycle \u2014 and apparently, the customer response was positive.<\/p>\n

The LiveWire was pretty impressive for its day, capable of 0 to 60 in under four seconds and a top speed of nearly 100 miles per hour \u2014 but the 55-mile range (33 in a high-performance mode) along with the 3.5-hour charging time made it a little less versatile than a traditional gasoline motorcycle. Presumably, Harley will use the next few years to engineer a newer, better powertrain that offers more range and quicker charging.<\/p>\n

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Iconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is known for chrome, freedom, and big, beefy V-twin engines \u2014 but soon, it\u2019ll also be known for something very different. In an interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal, Harley senior VP Sean Cummings says that it\u2019ll put an all-electric motorcycle on the road within five years. You might recall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions\/61503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}