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Harley-Davidson Livewire electric motorcycle makes European debut in Milan; more specs and details

Green Car Congress

The new electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle—originally unveiled in Milwaukee during the company’s 115 th Anniversary this past Labor Day weekend—made its European debut at the Milan press conference of the EICMA show. Harley-Davidson expects to deliver a full portfolio of electric motorcycles by 2022.

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I bought Harley’s new electric motorcycle. Delivery was a hot mess, but still awesome

Baua Electric

LiveWire, the all-electric motorcycle brand spun out of Harley-Davidson, is shaping itself into a force to be reckoned with in the still-evolving electric motorcycle industry. And I got to experience all of it as the proud new owner of a shiny indigo LiveWire S2 Del Mar Launch Edition electric motorcycle.

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The Six People You Meet In the Car Business

The Truth About Cars

Perry would never last long at a store because he possessed an ability to p**s off every one of his co-workers and managers. I last& heard he was at a luxury car& dealership in Arizona in 2014. Reed threatened to quit unless he was allowed to work customers at both stores and dealership management relented.

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Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?

Cars That Think

In 2014, IEEE Spectrum reported about Aerofex’s pledge to deliver a commercially available hoverbike, the Aero-X, by 2017. But as of this writing, the company’s flying motorcycles are still in the pre-order stage with no indication regarding when models like the $150,000 S-3 will be delivered to people who put down deposits.

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Enthusiasm electric!

Electric Auto Association

2022 Chapter of the Year (South) : Blue Ridge EV club The Blue Ridge EV Club , helmed by a board of 10 members, was created for the 2014 NDEW event in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, and since then has held a long list of successful events at local grocery stores, ice cream shops, farmers markets, malls, churches, and schools.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

Green Car Congress

It is interesting to note that in the interest of safety, and perhaps publicity, the pizza delivery vehicle was accompanied by an escort involving eight police cruisers and eight police motorcycles. “In The first one involved Steve, who is blind, and in 2012 got into a car and drove down to a local store to get a taco.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Expects production around 2014. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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