Harley-Davidson will launch on the market electric motorcycles

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Harley-Davidson выпустит на рынок электромотоциклыAmerican company Harley-Davidson announced plans to enter the market of electric motorcycles.

The firm showed a prototype electric bike — Project Livewire — back in 2014, but until now has never publicly stated a timetable for the withdrawal of the product. As reported in the financial report of the manufacturer for the past year, the novelty will be released in the next 18 months.

According to CNN, 2017 it’s been a tough year for Harley-Davidson: the world’s retail sales of motorcycles fell by 6.7% in the US by 8.5%. In this regard, the company intends to develop the market of electric motorcycles — new, but considered to be very promising.

According to chief editor of CycleWorld Mark Hoyer, electric “Harley” has all the chances to gain success. Unlike start-UPS, engineers at Harley-Davidson have the necessary expertise and well-established relationships with parts suppliers. In addition, the motorcycle can be endowed with a special “chip” of the company, namely roaring in white sound of the motor.

Harley-Davidson is not the only company, which is developing a motorcycle with electric motor.

At the end of last year Yamaha introduced the concept of “robozilla” with electric motor and batteries-cells Motoroid, able to communicate with the rider through artificial intelligence.

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