RE: Electric motorcycles - 27

As electric motorcycles go this one looks like a very good deal - if it meets up to its claims and the price doesn't increase: https://cscmotorcycles.com/rx1e-electric-motorcycle-red/

Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #391

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As electric motorcycles go this one looks like a very good deal - if it meets up to its claims and the price doesn't increase: https://cscmotorcycles.com/rx1e-electric-motorcycle-red/

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #392

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #391

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As electric motorcycles go this one looks like a very good deal - if it meets up to its claims and the price doesn't increase: https://cscmotorcycles.com/rx1e-electric-motorcycle-red/

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Looking at the pictures, I'm struck by 1) the "gear" reduction with the large rear sprocket and 2) the motor appears to be mounted to the forward end of the swing arm. It's an interesting approach.

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #344

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Here is something interesting: A small company in the Netherlands has come up with a kit to convert old BMW air-head boxers into electric motorcycles: https://thepack.news/lm-creations-from-t...conversion-kit/

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #393

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #392

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #391

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As electric motorcycles go this one looks like a very good deal - if it meets up to its claims and the price doesn't increase: https://cscmotorcycles.com/rx1e-electric-motorcycle-red/

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Looking at the pictures, I'm struck by 1) the "gear" reduction with the large rear sprocket and 2) the motor appears to be mounted to the forward end of the swing arm. It's an interesting approach.

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I was impressed that an electric motorcycle that cheap had a liquid-cooled motor. Zeros don't and tend to overheat easily when under stress.

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Here is a promotional video of this new (and not here yet) 2013 CSC RX1E model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLJ5sOP9qGo

And here is the "exciting" "semi-autonomous" Cake Kibb. Hopefully it won't run amok and run over you. Knowing Cake's other products though, I bet it won't be cheap: https://thepack.news/kibb-the-road-to-re...signed-by-cake/

This is an interesting discussion regarding the three major freeway-capable electric motorcycle companies and their business activities that I copied from a post on the Electric Motorcycle Forum. Just don't ask me what a SPAC is or what the STACYC brand of balance bikes are as I never heard of either term:

Livewire: The first company is obviously Livewire (LVWR). Harley Davidson spun its Liveware division into a SPAC earlier this year. Livewire sells full-sized motorcycles under its own brand and the STACYC brand of balance bikes. In fact, Livewire generates three times as much revenue from STACYC bikes as Livewire bikes.

Livewire’s full-sized bikes are produced under a contract manufacturing agreement with Harley Davidson, which makes them at the big plant in York, PA. Livewire makes STACYC bikes through assemblers in Taiwan.

Livewire’s gross margins hover around zero, so after operating expenses the company is losing a ton of money. On the other hand, Livewire has bucketfuls of cash after the SPAC merger.

Livewire is the only “pure play” exposure to the EV sector, though as noted most of that exposure is mostly to the sub-highway bike segment of the market.

Since Harley retains a near-90% ownership of Livewire, you can get indirect exposure to Livewire through Harley Davidson (HOG), though the investment is a tiny fraction of HOG’s total value.

Energica: After a tender offer in Italy earlier this year, around 70% of Energica is owned by publicly-traded Ideanomics (IDEX). Energica makes only the Energica motorcycles, though it is working on adapting its technology to other applications like boats and tractors and was thinking about entering the smaller-bike market. The other 30 or so percent of Energica is owned by Livia Cevolini, her family, and early investors.

Financial information on Energica is more difficult to get than it is for Livewire and that will continue as Ideanomics will probably not give detailed results on the company. Prior to the merger, Energica had a similar profit story as Livewire: Gross margins near zero, and the company producing losses as a result. For the nine months to September 30, Energica had revenues of $8.8 mm and a loss, also of $8.8 mm. Unlike Livewire, Energica manufactures its own bikes and many of the components.

Energica’s new parent company, Ideanomics, seeks to become a conglomerate of EV and related businesses. After investing heavily in the China EV market (and losing all of it), Ideanomics is now comprised primarily of a company that retrofits vehicles to hydrogen fuel cells or battery electric called US Hybrid, an electric tractor company called Solectrac, and WAVE, which is developing wireless charging for large trucks. Energica is another part of the conglomerate, though it has a separate shareholder agreement and management structure.

All of Ideanomics’ businesses operate at a loss (including a couple of unrelated businesses like a title-search company), and the loss for the nine months was more than $100 mm. Ideanomics is also liquidity-constrained and faces substantial dilution in the near future. After various writedowns and considering the stock price, the Energica investment makes up the majority of the company’s value, though how much of that value accrues to common shareholders is a fair question.

Zero: Zero motorcycles is private. But in its most recently announced round of funding, Zero disclosed that two public companies had invested. Polaris (PII) and Hero Motorcorp (On India’s national stock exchange) both participated in the round. Zero did not disclose how much each invested, but the entire round was only $107 mm, so the amounts are small in comparison to the companies that made the commitment.

Because it is private, there is little known about Zero's financials other than the company has delivered approximately 20,000 bikes since its inception.

Polaris owns the Indian and defunct Victory motorcycle brands and purchased the electric motorcycle assets of Brammo when that blew up, briefly producing the Victory Empulse.

Hero Motorcorp is among the largest manufacturers of two-wheeled vehicles in the world, focusing on scoots and smaller motorcycles. It just launched its first Electric scoot under its Vita brand.

According to the attached article, the IRS is apparently having trouble making any sense out of the EV tax credit requirements passed by Congress earlier this year - which EV manufacturers in other countries are none too happy about. They say that it will take them a while to formulate their regulations and devise a tax credit form. In the meantime you can get a credit that matches this years amount, $7,500. Of course this won't concern electric motorcycle buyers because they no longer get any sort of rebate for purchasing a motorcycle. You will need to buy something with four wheels and meet various other requirements as explained in the article which was published in the business section of my newspaper today.

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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #399

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In the meantime you can get a credit that matches this years amount, $7,500. Of course this won't concern electric motorcycle buyers because they no longer get any sort of rebate for purchasing a motorcycle. You will need to buy something with four wheels and meet various other requirements as explained in the article which was published in the business section of my newspaper today.

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Verge has announced another new model, the 2023 Verge TS Ultra, with very impressive specifications and a price to match:
https://thepack.news/verge-motorcycles-i...ra-at-ces-2023/

According to an article of that title published by the AP in my newspaper today, Mercedes Benz says it will build its own worldwide EV charging network starting in North America this year at a total cost of 1 billion Euros in order to compete with Tesla. When completed in six or seven years, the network will have 400 charging stations with more than 2,500 high-power plugs. When the entire system is built-out it will have more than 2,000 charging stations and over 10,000 plugs, worldwide. The Mercedes-branded network will be open to owners of all electric vehicles, but Mercedes owners will be able to reserve charging ports and get preference over other makes.

Each Mercedes station will have four to 12 ports with up to 350 kWh of charging power. Mercedes will share the cost of the NA network equally with MNS Energy. EV charging network provider ChargePoint is also a partner.

Honda announces three new electric city scooters/motorbikes: https://thepack.news/honda-motor-china-a...dax-e-zoomer-e/