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I tried charging my SS9(no Experia yet) on a couple new Freewire chargers on EV Connect at a local gas station yesterday and had little luck. Started at 29%, started the session then plugged in, it ramped up to 77A out of the selected 75A then ramped all the way down to 0 then quit. Each of the 5 times I got it going, it charged 0.04kwh total each time across all 3 CCS chargers. I called up and they said there is already a ticket filed for the issue. Is there anyone else having a similar issue with Freewire chargers? I was all excited to try a new charger for free.

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Looking at the industry as a whole, there seems to be a rejuvenated focus on getting new riders on electric motorcycles. This seems to be stage 3 of the evolution of the industry. First would be where you have high priced products with pretty ok specs(see Zero S or Energica EGO 13KWh). Second would be a much upgraded, new generation expensive motorcycles(see Zero SR/S or Energica EsseEsse 9+ 21.5KWh). Now these companies like Energica and Livewire are currently stuck with $15k+ models. Nearly all new riders may have a budget of UP TO 8 or 10k to spend on a new or used motorcycle. My first bike was a discounted previous year Yamaha FZ-07 for about $6000 plus tax financed. I'm glad I was able to get the deal to have a bigger budget for safety gear(ATGATT!).

There are a lot of new contenders going for a cheaper electric motorcycle that is surprisingly capable from a brand that has shipped products(see Sondors Metacycle, Kollter motorcycles, CSC RX1E). These bikes hit more mileage at a lower price vs the Zero FXS with nearly the same performance it seems.

What does everyone think about the newer entrants vs the older ones? Do the newer ones feel the need to be more price competitive vs Zero or the other way around with Zero's long-standing experience in the industry? What do you see the possible reliability in these models compared, might they be about the same with a somewhat similar parts budget?

I could have expanded this more but was looking to make it and easy read without extra possibly unnecessary context.

Hey all, a bit more than a year ago I got the SR/S 2020 model undecided to get the power pack or the charge pack. A week later it was immediately apparent that the bike could use a bigger battery. I then went and purchased and had the power pack installed. Then a month later or less I started having some big issues with the power pack with it logically separating from the main battery and couldn't figure out to use the main battery or the power pack when it turns on. It usually ended up choosing the main battery but sometimes I got terrible indicated range and it was taking from the power pack. I then took it in and they ordered a replacement under warranty for the power pack which ended up fixing the issue after a month of waiting.
Recently in the last 2 or so months I've had some big errors that were thrown after most of the way to work(3 mins till I got there it went from mostly charged to 0 miles left and threw errors 28,31,33,43). I heard error 43 is a bit infamous here. This happened when it was raining of course. I got my bike back about a week or two ago with the dealership somehow unable to replicate the problem with Zero saying they needed fresher logs(why would the error logs not be saved on the bike for a longer period of time? It only took the shop a few days to pickup the bike.) After getting it back and riding home everything was fine while it was dry out. I then rode to work after a rain storm that morning and it threw the same errors earlier in my ride and left me stranded in the middle of my commute with a nearly full charge and the power pack depleted. Thankfully the shop was able to pickup the bike sooner than later from a parking lot I was able to get it to and got an Uber the rest of the way to work. This is frustrating because it gave me these issues so easily with the shop somehow unable to get a diagnosis for it.

I've been browsing the threads and not many people seem to have the power pack. Anyone else having these problems?