2021 Zero SR/S | MotorWeek Two Wheelin' 

you’d make $4000 back within the first 3 years with no gas, oil or spark plugs to change also coolant.

Too much for ANY street bike imo. I don't want the equivalent of another car payment for a recreational vehicle I put 3k miles on a year

@@teslaedison6236 They should’ve taken Kawasaki’s path and do hybrids. They’re already using the ninja 400 in testing with a electric motor to make it without the expensive cost

Depending in which state you live in you get some fat tax incentives my buddy got 3,000 back on his zero

Wtf!!!!!! 21k ehhhh absolutely not!!! Gas bike is like 11k new

I hate the sound. You're not a motorcycle person. Motorcycle people spend hundreds of dollars to get the right sound out of their bikes. We crave the sound. Why do you think we rev them up sitting still like we do? DUH.

@@starbattles1 shut

It's 80's retro

Side car is the least practical thing ever designed, especially in a right turn!

Good catch. I build old cars, and I know a crack in a casing when I see one. That's a crack. And there is oxidation nearby too. I went back and looked at the rest, oxidation is present in many places. Under shock mounts too. No protective coating to prevent that. What would this look like after 5 years if ridden daily, rain or shine? You would have to polish everything once a week.

Wow, and why does it look like it's already oxidizing? Yikes, for a NEW bike at $20k I'd be alarmed

Yikes

Man you got a good eye! 👁 I’ve just noticed it! What a piece of junk!

You talking about the "pitting" on the footpeg pin?

@@nickb3968 Look at the centre-right of the image at 3:23; there are what appears to be black cracks in the aluminum footpeg support. Not the corrosion on the pivot pin, the actual metal of the support.

I test rode a zero SR F and it barely made any noise and has essentially the same motor setup as this bike. Zeros use direct drive unlike the Energicas which have straight cut gearing and are naturally loud. So you're right, this may be artificial noise

you would save $4000 after 3 years of ownership no spark plugs, gas or oil to replace..

@@MJT-DA Sorry, you're not saving that much unless you ride 33,000 miles a year- which 95% of the riding public won't do.(and which would be very hard to do on an electric bike due to charging constraints.)

@@nickb3968 I do 9,360kms per season i ride for 10 months. I replace my oil twice a session which cost me $86CAD for 10w40 motul 7100 oil. It cost me $60 a season for a KN airfilter for my bike and $24 for a KN oil filter. My bike does about 220kms (which i do in a week) before it needs gas which cost me average $24 since gas went up finally NGK spark plugs are $15.41CAD per piece (2009 yamaha fz6r has 4 cylinders). it cost me $1240 per year to ride my motorcycle in canada ontario. I don’t know where you live but that bs about riding how many kilometres makes no sense. Lastly and this is a big one I pay $167 per month in insurance to ride. A EV bike is cheaper since insurance companies where i live consider them slow commute bikes. Look up a forum where a guy explained that bike insurance companies need to catch up when it comes to ev bikes.

@@MJT-DA I said mile, not KM, and while you pay more in gas than we do in the US, at 5800 miles a year you're no where near the break even point. You didn't mention insurance, as you are talking bike vs motorcycle...so it's not apples to apples. If you ride your bike 10 months out of the year in Ontario(my sister is Canadian), you're stout given the weather 4 months of the year.

@@nickb3968 I start a little earlier than other bikers thats why i try to ride 10 months of the year but this year i started late since it wouldn’t stop snowing so you got me there. Also yeah the insurance knows about zero motorcycles so insurance is valid. I’m not sure about where you live but in Ontario, Canada they go by how much people die on that vehicle. There are less EV bikes also because of their regen braking they stop really fast and you wont have the “oh shi” moment when you lock your brakes in the rain (happened to me twice) since you don’t even need to brake on ev bikes. I have to call again but i remember it being cheaper per year to insure a ev bike with more horsepower (Sr/s has 110hp my fz6r 87hp or 69whp) than my ICE motorcycle. I’m like you i’m not really to shell out 20k for a EV bike which is why i think kawasakis hybrid motorcycle concept they released last month might interest you. It has two 24V batteries to power it in the city and when you get above a certain amount it turns to engine mode using the ninja 400 engine. It’s supposed to be waay cheaper than this.

Good luck at 80mph on the freeway with a 150cc scooter.

How often do you ride a motorcycle more than 150 miles a day? Especially 300, seems unrealistic

@@tylerdingus7053 Exactly. 120-150 miles would easily cover my favorite routes on a day ride.

@@tylerdingus7053 every weekend. Our ride group covers 250-300 miles in a day. That would exclude just about every single EV bike made.

@@metallicknight2 I doubt you're doing it on this style of bike for one and there's very few electric motorcycles. There's one coming to market with interchangeable batteries so you can bring more with you Harley is working on one that should be more than 300 mile range with interchangeable batteries. Not many people ride motorcycles to begin with (around 3%) so it's not necessarily the most important vehicle to switch to electric. They also don't contribute to high levels of emissions so this also makes them a non-priority

It's just you and a few other boomers

Zero!👉0

In person on the bike I found it to be way less annoying. I heard the tires and wind more then the motor

The battery is 14.4 kWh (kilowatt-hours). The motor max output is about 85 kW which where they got the hp figure

It's a 14kWh battery pack. The kWh is a measure of the amount of energy the pack holds. It could, in theory, deliver 14.4kW (19.3hp) of power for one hour or 82kW (110hp) for just over ten minutes.

I only heard "14.4kW", not "hours"

@@Iowa599kind of simplified physics also as shown above by Mike P., battery capacity is measured in kWh as potential energy or potential work, which is power multiplied by time, hence the kW times h. Power rating in kW or hp is the amount of energy delivered at that instant (E/t) is dependent mainly on the motor capabilities, which is also force (torque) times angular velocity which itself can be converted from RPM using a constant.

190nm of torque no other bike got that torque power

Who cares!😂