The latest creation from Harley-Davidson can go from zero to 60 miles-per-hour faster than you can finish reading this sentence, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one at your local filling station anytime soon.
Not only is Harley-Davidson’s newest bike not available on the market yet — the company will start touring a dozen prototypes around the United States next week — but it’s also the first bike from the iconic American company that runs entirely on electrical power.
"As a company, we have always been about strength and freedom and power," Matthew Levatich, Harley-Davidson's president and chief operating officer, told the Chicago Tribune during a recent showing of his company’s new LiveWire motorcycle. "So it's really a question of 'why not?' instead of 'why?' This isn't some sort of ploy for us. This is real."