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Dates / venues subject to change or cancellation . (*) Some dates provisional . " Check before you buy " Continued from page 6
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infrastructure to ensure EV compliance ), branding and marketing ( go-to-market product rollout promotion and event-related promotions to increase product trail levels ), manufacturing ( capacity expansion at Harley ' s York , Pa . and Pilgrim Road ( Power Train Operations ), Menomonee Falls , Wisconsin plants ) and technology ( construction of app and associated digital infrastructure ).
Harley will have a ' Transition Services ' agreement with LiveWire to enable it to charge-back the transaction and set-up costs to get LiveWire up and running in its own right . Harley will then have a ' Master Services '
' Master Services Agreement '
agreement for coverage of ongoing management , manufacturing and trading cost and infrastructure provision . If remarks made in the launch Q & A with analysts is to be understood correctly , that will start at $ 100m a year on an ongoing basis . KYMCO was founded in Taiwan in 1964 , originally as a joint venture with Honda , Harley ' s long-time spiritual fellow traveler and a significant player in Harley ' s survival in the early 1980s , and remains no stranger to collaborations , having already been a project partner with the likes of BMW , Kawasaki , Arctic Cat and Textron among others .
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KYMCO sales are around $ 1bn and the company has sold some 10 million units in around 100 national markets and already has 20 years of active product development under its belt in electrification . It is one of the fastest growing Asian OEMs in Europe , in particular , and though best known for its scooters , it has already started to show top-end electric motorcycle concepts such as the SuperNEX electric super-sports bike ( EICMA 2018 ). Battery technology is well understood to be a pivotal issue in the future evolution of EV demand ( of all kinds ) and charging times and cycles to be one of the most limiting factors so far . In that respect , the concept of swappable batteries had to be one that Harley found a way of embracing ( see " My Green Rant " comment on page 4 of AMD # 243 from October 2019 ), and in partnering with KYMCO , Harley will be working with one of the early adopters of swappable battery concepts - KYMCO is a leader in that space with its IONEX swappable battery platform . However , at this stage , no mention is made of the system being adopted by LiveWire . In addition to Jochen Zeitz as acting CEO , Ryan Morrisey ( President ), Vance Strader ( CTO ) and Gina Goetter ( acting CFO ), Harley says that LiveWire is already staffed with a " high quality management team " of 100 + professionals . LiveWire will have a contract manufacturing agreement with |
Harley , with LiveWire One , S2 and S1 bikes assembled at York , Pa ., for an initial 5-year exclusivity period on an ' Arms-Length ' terms basis with market-standard cost-plus pricing and LiveWire funding EV-specific plant equipment , tooling and installation expenses . A joint operating committee will oversee contract execution , including annual planning of volumes and unit pricing . Harley states that this " asset light model gives LiveWire years of head start on [ its ] competition ." LiveWire is " setting itself up to be a forward thinking disruptor in the electric space " and Harley has released considerable detail on how it intends to build-out the LiveWire platform to achieve that . Starting from the present LiveWire
' 100,961 units worth $ 1.769bn in 2026 '
One as its initial platform ( the legacy original 2010-2014 ' Project Hacker ' and 2015-2020 $ 30k LiveWire Mk I appear now to be entirely consigned to museum exhibit status ), the development of its ARROW scalable modular architecture will form the basis of a sequence of additional LiveWire models . The S2 series will extend the portfolio " to a range of middleweight applications ," with the S3 models " scaling down the Arrow architecture to a platform of lightweight twowheelers in partnership with KYMCO ." The S4 series will " leverage latest technologies to address heavyweight motorcycles with expected improvements in range and charging capabilities ." Harley states that with LiveWire One having demonstrated " the breakthrough capabilities of a premium electric motorcycle ", the road map for LiveWire represents a " compelling future product set that underpins the 100k future unit
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