California is big and spread out. As the article indicates motorcycles are less than 0.5% of vehicle miles. And most motorcycle miles here are for pleasure, not for commuting. It’s very dangerous to ride a motorcycle on the highway with all the distracted drivers and huge vehicles with poor visibility. That’s why most motorcycle use is big groups of loud motorcycles - for safety and fun.
To be successful here, an electric motorcycle needs to be annoyingly loud, and have a range of 200 miles, with fast charging. And nobody is making that right now.
Perhaps nobody should be making an electric motorcycle for this use case. At such low quantities, maybe it makes sense to have ICE vehicles for the pleasure aspect.
California is big and spread out. As the article indicates motorcycles are less than 0.5% of vehicle miles. And most motorcycle miles here are for pleasure, not for commuting. It’s very dangerous to ride a motorcycle on the highway with all the distracted drivers and huge vehicles with poor visibility. That’s why most motorcycle use is big groups of loud motorcycles - for safety and fun.
To be successful here, an electric motorcycle needs to be annoyingly loud, and have a range of 200 miles, with fast charging. And nobody is making that right now.
Perhaps nobody should be making an electric motorcycle for this use case. At such low quantities, maybe it makes sense to have ICE vehicles for the pleasure aspect.