Trials
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Personally I don't get the electric motorcycle. Lets look at a basic Zero -- For $13K I get a motorcycle has a highway range of 30KM or 15 minutes on a full charge, and has the same top speed as an CBR125 or Grom. At today's fuel prices, the CBR would need to travel 400,000km before it's cost of ownership exceeded the Zero. For $22K I can get a top end Zero that will take me 100 miles or about 1.5hrs before needing a 12 hr recharge. Performance is about the same as a CBR500, which would also need to travel 400,000+km to match the TCO.
So... what do I get from the electric motorcycle? Performance? No. Economy? No.
Someone help me.
People who buy into emerging technology rarely do it to save money, the attraction in it is to have something completely different and unique from the the rest of the herd.