Harley-Davidson has temporarily stopped making and transporting its first electric-powered motorcycle, LiveWire, because of a hassle with the bike’s charging system, as The Wall Street Journal first suggested. The organization advised the Journal that LiveWire bikes are still secure for the trip. However, it’s asking the primary few clients to simplest rate the $30,000 electric motorcycle at dealerships, indicating that there can be a problem with plugging them into lower-voltage outlets, along with the ones observed in their homes. LiveWire motorcycles, the most effective, just started shipping in September.
The LiveWire turned into first brought as a concept bike again in 2014. The venture disappeared from the highlight for some years before Harley-Davidson reintroduced the LiveWire in the manufacturing-prepared form in November 2018.
Harley-Davidson has positioned LiveWire as a key piece of the enterprise’s wider initiative to appeal to new, younger riders because it attempts to turn round a flagging publish-recession commercial enterprise. That stated, the motorcycle is priced at the very excessive quit, an excellent $10,000 above the maximum costly electric motorcycles currently on the market.
Reached for comment, the publicly traded bike manufacturer best issued an opaque assertion approximately the charging problem:
As we lead inside the electrification of motorcycles, we’ve added our first LiveWire bikes to legal LiveWire sellers. We recently determined a non-trendy condition at some point of a very last quality take a look at; we stopped production and deliveries; and began additional testing and evaluation, that’s progressing properly. We are near contact with our LiveWire sellers and clients and have confidence they can maintain to journey with LiveWire motorcycles. As common, we’re preserving high great as our top precedence.
Harley-Davidson is not the only enterprise to have a hassle with the rollout of its first electric-powered automobile this year. In June, Audi issued a reminder of the E-Tron, its electric-powered SUV, over worries about battery fires (even though none were said). A few weeks later, Chinese EV startup NIO recalled its first electric-powered SUV after the automobiles caught fire.
