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You Can Get Your Motorcycle License With an EV Now, Good

Electric motorcycles are great gateways to motorcycling as a whole, and now you can use them to obtain your motorcycle license through the DMV and training programs.

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Is LiveWire About To Take On Zero With These New, Less Expensive EV Bikes?

LiveWire is already onto the next thing in the background, and it's a whole new EV platform that's under development to bring small displacement equivalent EVs.

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Something Weird Is Happening at LiveWire. What's Up With Its Stock?

It's no secret that EV motorcycle maker LiveWire has been having a rough time. But then its value suddenly got higher than it had in months, and many stocks got sold.

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Harley's Outgoing CEO Blames EV Charging Infrastructure for LiveWire's Struggles

Before I really dig into this, I want to state something very directly. On the whole, I like EV motorcycles. I've ridden quite a few, and I've found something to enjoy about every single one.

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Here's the Electric Motorcycle Harley-Davidson Should Build, and It's Not a Cruiser

I have a lot of issues with the current corporate power fight that's raging inside Harley-Davidson. From (newly) activist investors, to those same investors not being able to spell Harley-Davidson correctly in their grievances. But one thing I do tend to agree with them on is that the situation at…

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Harley-Davidson Q1 Financials Are Out, and They're Not Good

"Do you want the good news first, or the bad news first?" is probably something you've asked other people before. And if you, like me, are currently looking at Harley-Davidson's Q1 2025 financial results, then you might find yourself asking whether whoever wrote this asked themselves that question, too.

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Harley-Davidson Investors Want EVs Axed, Don't Have a Grasp on Industry Realities

The fight for who controls Harley-Davidson continues, as H Partners Management—the investment firm that had a seat on the brand's board of directors until their man resigned in protest because he wasn't allowed to pick the company's new CEO—has found another investor to join its campaign.

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LiveWire Will Now Offer a Police Package Electric Motorcycle

There's a time and a place for electric motorcycles. At least at present. But this one, well, this one wasn't something I thought of, but now that I'm staring at the finished product, it makes a lot of sense. Let me introduce you to LiveWire's S2 Patrol.

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Does Europe Want a $20,000 LiveWire?

You could say that LiveWire has always had a bit of an identity crisis. It was originally launched as the first all-electric model under the Harley brand, a symbol of its daringness to venture into the world of electrification. But not long after, it was spun off into its own…

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Good News, LiveWire Lost Less Money Than Last Year

To kick off February, both LiveWire and parent company/sometime production partner Harley-Davidson announced their Q4 2024 and full year 2024 financial information for their respective investors. And while things were pretty grim according to Harley's portion of the presentation, there's a somewhat bright spot to be seen in LiveWire's numbers.

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Harley-Davidson's Revenue Absolutely Tanked Last Year, Future Isn't Looking Bright

Listen, guys. Whether you're a Harley-Davidson motorcycle fan or not, the numbers over the past several years haven't been good. That's not an opinion; that's a fact.

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I Don't Get Why LiveWire's S2 Alpinista Exists

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be a hater. Honestly, I want to see LiveWire succeed. I really enjoyed my time on the first LiveWire, something I'm told is still offered by the company in the year 2025. But the company is just, well, floundering. Sales are non-existent. It's losing money…

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LiveWire Has a New EV Motorcycle Coming Soon, But Who Is It For?

Full stop, I loved the first Harley-Davidson LiveWire. I rode it on the Brooklyn Formula E track way back when it first debuted, and me and one of the brand's marketing leads—what's up, Laurence!—had an absolute ball hanging at the back of the pack and shredding the track. It had power.…

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LiveWire 'Outsources' Almost Everything to Harley-Davidson

You probably don't need me to tell you that times are tough right now. To some degree or another, you're seeing it in your own life. Whether it's the price of eggs, the price of heating your home this winter, or something else entirely. Living is expensive.Companies still aren't people…

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Harley-Davidson's Customers Might've Got Hacked

It's been a year for Harley-Davidson. Like, it's been a hard year. The Motor Co's stock has tumbled. Its CEO has fought claims of being woke and caved to outside pressure even though it's the most un-woke company around. It's losing business because it's so anti-woke, in fact. LiveWire has burned through…

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The 6 best electric motorcycle concepts and launches from EICMA 2024

We highlight some of the most exciting electric motorcycle and scooter launches from this year's show.

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Will LiveWire's Partnership with Kymco Finally Put It On The Right Path?

If you've been following the LiveWire saga for a good amount of time, you might recall that when parent company Harley-Davidson spun it off into its own entity, the newly-fledged EV bike maker simultaneously announced a partnership deal with Kymco. The formal announcement came at the end of 2021, and the…

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California Wants to Mandate More EV Motorcycles, Isn't At All Based on Reality

Electric road motorcycles—the Zeroes, the LiveWires, the Energicas (RIP)—just don't work for the average consumer who goes on longer trips, brisker canyon jaunts, and overnight camps in the middle of the backcountry compared to their gas cousins. They just don't have the range.I say this having sampled a bunch of…

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Harley-Davidson's Sales Have Tanked, How Much Longer Can It Survive

It's almost Halloween, the most orange-and-black time of the year. It's also quarterly financial report time, which means that Harley-Davidson just dropped its Q3 2024 financial stats on the world.

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Almost Every LiveWire S2 Motorcycle Has Been Recalled

LiveWire is recalling nearly 800 individual 2024 S2 Del Mar and S2 Mulholland EV bikes due to a fuse issue that affects safety & could increase risk of a crash.

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Tom Cruise Rappelled Into the Olympics, Rode Off on a LiveWire S2 Del Mar

Famously stunt-prone actor Tom Cruise rappeled into Paris' Olympic stadium during the closing ceremony, picked up the flag, and then rode off on a LiveWire Del Mar.

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This LiveWire EV Motorcycle Story Sounds Horrifying, Possibly a Lemon Law Case

A recent post on Reddit is going viral after a LiveWire S2 Del Mar owner detailed their horror story of their first few months with the electric motorcycle, and whether or not it will be Lemon Law'd.

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Harley-Davidson Gets Federal Grant, Likely Gives LiveWire a Lifeline

The US Department of Energy announced recipients of grants designed to convert manufacturing facilities to participate in EV manufacturing across the US.

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Is This KYMCO's LiveWire EV Motorcycle Collaboration?

Patents don't always show us the future, but they sometimes give tantalizing glimpses. These recent Kymco patent drawings seem to show LiveWire underpinnings.

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Is LiveWire Building an Old Harley-Davidson E-Bike Concept?

In the drawings section of LiveWire's "virtual brake" patent, a line drawing of an old e-bike concept from 2018 is shown to model the patents' design, which might offer a clue as to the brand's next bike.

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