Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire drops teaser online video for subsequent electrical motorcycle

We have been waiting for many years with bated breath for specifics pertaining to Harley-Davidson’s up coming impending LiveWire electric powered bike. Now we’re acquiring the initial authentic crumbs alongside with a small teaser movie, as well as an formally announced unveiling date of May perhaps 10th.

LiveWire, the all-electrical sub-brand spun out of Harley-Davidson, has been challenging at function on a 2nd product to observe the flagship LiveWire A single electric motorcycle, 1st rolled out as the Harley-Davidson LiveWire again in 2018.

From trader documents and prior statements from the organization, we have recognized that the forthcoming model would be referred to as both the S2 or the Del Mar (or some mixture), and that it would be a middleweight motorbike.

That possible suggests it will be built to be extra approachable to a wider selection of riders, both physically and economically. The bicycle is probably to be relatively toned down compared to the LiveWire 1, which rocks an extraordinary 100 horsepower and a leading velocity that is electronically constrained to 110 mph (177 km/h).

The forthcoming LiveWire Del Mar, which symptoms issue to as the likely name, would hence possible have a bit minimized electric power and perhaps a decreased top velocity, helping it compete more instantly with middleweight electric powered motorcycles like the Zero FXE.

Now we’re acquiring our initial very small clues about the impending new Harley electric powered motorbike in the form of the teaser video under.

The video highlights flat track racing, which aligns with past layout sketches of a flat tracker-motivated motorbike.

Of system these structure sketches are a number of many years previous at this level and so the remaining structure of the LiveWire Del Mar will probable be appreciably current.

But we do know that Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire division has designed a modular electrical motorbike platform recognised as Arrow that will allow for the firm to establish a number of motorcycles on the same primary chassis, which can be found in the two the more mature style and design sketches and new patent pictures.

So it stands to explanation that although the aesthetics of the impending Del Mar may possibly have adjusted, the simple design and style and architecture is very likely very similar to what we see in the original structure sketches beneath.

Rolling out a more approachable and a lot more inexpensive middleweight electrical bike is crucial to Harley’s more substantial targets of scooping up a dominant share of the electric powered motorbike sector, the two stateside and overseas.

The enterprise has stated that it expects to promote 100,000 electrical motorcycles by 2026, which is a lofty concentrate on based on existing figures and the company’s present lineup of one particular product, even if that product is rather darn wonderful.

There are continue to some important questions hanging out there although concerning H-D’s up coming electric motorbike. What are the specs? What is the value? When will it be accessible?

Plus the design and style is still amazingly open up-finished. ADVrider’s Mike Botan pointed out that a screen grab of a quick look at of a bike in the teaser movie (witnessed below) shows the rear of what could be the new Del Mar.

A closer appear displays that it absolutely is not the LiveWire A person thanks to the simplified swingarm, but it also does not surface to match any Del Mar idea artwork or structure sketches we’ve seen so far.

With so several unknowns continue to hanging in the air, the range of issues we have outweighs the quantity of info we know.

With any luck, we’ll have answers to all of these questions and a lot more on Might 10th.

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