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Harley-Davidson , Indian and Polaris dealers have been ranked highest in a 2022 Pied Piper PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness Motorcycle / UTV Industry study measuring response to website customers - " despite inventory shortages and COVID-19 , dealers who responded quickly by email , phone and text showed markedly stronger sales to web customers .
Harley has announced that Kjell Gruner and William ( Bill ) Cornog are to join the LiveWire board of directors on completion of the merger with AEA- Bridges Impact Corp . (" ABIC "), along with Dr . John Garcia ( representing ABIC ), Jochen Zeitz and H-D executives Gina Goetter ( CFO ), Edel O ' Sullivan , CCO , and Bryan Niketh , SVP Motor Company Product and Operations . Gruner is CEO of Porsche Cars NA , served as Porsche CMO for a decade and as Director of Strategy Mercedes-Benz Cars for Daimler prior to that . Cornog is a Managing Partner of KKR Capstone .
Asphalt & Rubber has reported that Harley sold 2,500 Pan Americas in the USA in 2021 .
The NHTSA in the United States has issued what it is referencing as " final rules " for fully autonomous vehicle manufactures . There is a big , fundamental change . The new " rules " roll back the requirement previously stipulated within SAE J3016 for Level 5 full-time autonomy to still have controls for human override . That requirement has now been eliminated , meaning that vehicle manufacturers are not compelled to equip fully autonomous vehicles with manual driving controls in order to meet crash standards . General Motors Co . and its self-driving technology unit Cruise petitioned the NHTSA for permission to build and deploy a self-driving vehicle without human controls such as steering wheels or brake pedals . The rules revise regulations that assume vehicles " will always have a driver ' s seat , a steering wheel and accompanying steering column , or just one front outboard passenger seating position ," according to the NHTSA .
LiveWire ' S2 ' Del Mar LE
Revealed By Ben Purvis
LiveWire , Harley-Davidson ' s soon to be floated electric bike subsidiary , has previewed its second generation of battery-powered machines in the form of the ' S2 ' Del Mar Launch Edition - and secured deposits for the first 100 bikes in just 18 minutes , despite production ( or at least deliveries ) not being slated until the Spring of 2023 . The ' S2 ' Del Mar is the first LiveWire to use the company ' s new ' Arrow ' modular platform . The Arrow architecture is essentially a structural battery case that allows a variety of battery capacities to be used , as well as a range of different electric motors , while smaller subframes bolted to the front and rear of the central structure allow it to be shared across bikes of different sizes and geometries . The Del Mar is the only ' S2 ' model to be shown so far and adopts a flattrack-inspired look that was initially previewed in official Harley-Davidson sketches in 2020 . A lozenge-shaped headlight sits in a stubby nose cowl that mimics the front number board of a flat-tracker , while the bars are wide and the wheels fairly narrow 19-inch alloys . The bike is claimed to be good for 80 hp ( 59.6 kW ), with a 0-60 mph time of 3.5 seconds and a range of around 100 miles in city conditions . The relatively short range ( the bigger LiveWire One manages 146 miles in the city ) gets a payoff in the form of a lighter battery , with the ' S2 ' Del Mar expected to come in at under 440 lbs / 200 kg , ready-to-ride . In comparison , the LiveWire One ( formerly known as the Harley- Davidson LiveWire ) is 500 lbs / 255 kg , has 105 hp and does 0-60 mph in three seconds dead . At the moment , LiveWire hasn ' t made any claims for the Del Mar ' s range outside the city , but since the LiveWire One is only good for 70 miles between charges at highway speeds , the Del Mar might well exhaust its battery in around 50 miles in the same conditions . The limited Launch Edition version of the Del Mar gets its own dedicated cast alloy wheel design with intricate spokes intended to represent the wiring on a circuit board , as well as a hand-applied paint finish that takes a full five days to complete . With that in mind , at $ 17,699 in the United States , the MSRP doesn ' t look unreasonable , coming it at around $ 5,000 less than the LiveWire One . The full production version of the Del Mar , with simpler wheels and less exotic paintwork , is due to cost $ 15,000 in the USA when the bikes reach production in Spring 2023 . The mass-made version will be available as soon as the limited Launch Edition models are being delivered .
Once the Arrow platform is in production , we can expect further LiveWire models to come thick and fast , with a range of styles and performance levels . Later on , a lighterweight ' S3 ' range is due to appear with a scaled-down version of the same Arrow design , followed by a heavyweight ' S4 ' line-up , likely to replace the original LiveWire One and expand the options further still .
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