It may not have that same attention-grabbing roar, but Harley's latest motorcycle has lots of other things going for it: for starters, a non-existent appetite for gasoline. It's being called Project LiveWire – the first Harley-Davidson electric motorcycle, which was announced publicly in June. The bike, which is battery-powered with an electric motor, isn't the first entrant into the market of electric motorcycles. Manufacturers Zero Motorcycles and Mission Motors have been producing electric motorcycles for a while, Businessweek points out. But Harley's entrance promises a wider spread of the technology, which has been slower to catch on than in cars.
The LiveWire boasts a 74 horsepower motor – beating by a fair bit the Prius's 60 hp. According to Popular Science the bike can go 53 miles between charges and takes just 3.5 hours to charge on a 220-volt outlet. And it can hit top speeds of 92 mph – ...
