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General Category => Electric Motorcycle News => Topic started by: Richard230 on October 27, 2018, 07:59:09 PM
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This is a nice looking bike: https://electricmotorcycles.news/tarform-a-new-breed-of-electric-motorcycles/
But what really has me thinking is how many city scooters and small motorcycles are actually on the market? And can the market actually absorb all of these products so that the companies will stay in business, continue to manufacture the vehicles and be able to support their customers in the future?
If you were to look through the electric motorcycle news site over the past year you would certainly see a lot of manufactures showing off their interesting, unusual and sometimes strange designs for electric motorcycles and scooters - and other vehicles not so easy to classify. Almost all of these products are either low-power (3kW) city transportation devices or concepts that never seem to actually hit the market and just kind of fade away. Plus, I keep getting the feeling that many of these vehicles, like the subject of this thread, are actually just concepts and are trolling for investment dollars so as to bring their design ideas to the market - which never seems to actually happen. ???
They get the money, work a little longer on their vehicle and the money runs out long before an actual production factory can be set up, the vehicle approved by various countries for sale, a dealer distribution system established, a business plan developed, a steady flow of financing established and customers are actually able to purchase the vehicles. It seems likely to me that many of these concepts, if they actually ever get built and are not just computer simulations, will end up in the back of a barn to be resurrected some day by an early electric motorcycle history collector or a EV museum. ::)
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Yes, this space is over saturated with design concepts with not enough manufacturing and marketing savvy.
There’s a two decade graveyard of personal urban electric vehicle concepts that are basically chasing a tiny unproven market segment.
The pursuit of enclosed reverse trikes with only a single occupancy function baffles me completely, for example.
Eventually, a manufacturer will ship a vehicle with enough marginal utility to offset specialized manufacturing costs of electric two wheelers. Zero just barely clears that hurdle with the BMW C-Evolution alongside it.
Every other manufacturer is producing lifestyle statements or niche models.