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After motoring for the best part of four years, this motorcycle show has been shown at the Milan Motorcycle Show. The electric bike drops in 2019, but the company is back on all the important specs about speed, range, and charging for now.
The bike will carry the same "LiveWire" name used when it was still a prototype, but it otherwise looks like a much more complete design, frankly, a refreshing new vision for what Harley-Davidson motorcycle should look like in 2019. The company could use some help, too. While the motorcycle industry has struggled since the 2008 financial crisis, Harley-Davidson in particular has suffered a number of losses and layoffs. It has also become one of President Trump's most visible targets during his administration's trade war.
The original LiveWire prototype could get from 0-60mph in under oven seconds, and had a range of about 55 miles in "economy" mode. Zero motorcycles easily eclipse 100 miles these days. Whether Harley-Davidson's first electric motorcycle matches numbers like that could play a major factor in the bike's success. The company has been working with the idea of going for a while – including investing in the seemingly defunct startup Alta Motors – and could clearly use a boost.
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