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Harley Davidson "Livewire" prototype bike
I just saw a video of the new Harley concept, café racer style, all electric motorcycle and was really impressed with it. It has 74 HP and 52 lb. ft. of torque with an economy mode and a power mode. Unfortunately, for right now, with battery technology as it is, the range in economy mode is about 60 miles, but drops to 30 miles in power mode, which obviously will have to improve before public sales, but Tesla is doing amazing work with battery advancements, and is planning on building a 5 billion dollar battery assembly plant to be able to supply the power plants for up to 500,000 vehicles a year, they currently only build 35,000 cars a year and plan on building EV batteries for other applications as well. I am just speculating here, but maybe a deal could be struck for what Harley needs for the future ?
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