Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire S2 Del Mar electric motorcycle price drops, EU price announced
LiveWire is rolling closer to the summer 2023 release of its second electric motorcycle model, the LiveWire S2 Del Mar. The company has just confirmed new pricing for the production model in the US as well as for the upcoming EU version of the electric motorcycle.
The S2 Del Mar is technically the second model from LiveWire, but it’s really the first model developed by the brand after its spin-off from within Harley-Davidson.
H-D originally developed its own LiveWire electric motorcycle that was released under the bar and shield nameplate in 2019. However, the company rolled its electric motorcycle work into a new separate brand known as LiveWire in 2021.
The new LiveWire brand inherited the H-D LiveWire, re-releasing it with minor updates as the LiveWire One electric motorcycle, making the upcoming S2 Del Mar motorcycle even more monumental as the brand’s first totally unique bike.
It was originally unveiled nearly a year ago with the limited Launch Edition selling for $17,699 and the production version claiming an anticipated $15,000 target price. Reservations for the Launch Edition sold out in just 18 minutes.
As time (and inflation) rolled on, the target price for the production version walked up to $16,999 in late 2022. But now LiveWire has announced new lowered pricing for the production version of the bike in the US, dropping to $15,499. That puts it within $500 of the original price, and around $7,000 lower than LiveWire’s flagship One electric motorcycle.
Deliveries of the production version of the LiveWire S2 Del Mar are expected to begin in the US in July.
Reservations for the European version of the S2 Del Mar Launch Edition will open at 4 p.m. CET on April 27. There are only 100 bikes available in the European Launch Edition, and the quickest to their mouses will be able to reserve one for €100.
The Launch Edition of S2 Del Mar is planned for delivery in Europe this September.
The pricing for the S2 Del Mar European Launch Edition including VAT varies by country as follows:
- France: €20,190
- Germany: €19,990
- Netherlands: €20,390
- U.K.: £18,990
We don’t yet have full specs for the LiveWire S2 Del Mar, though the company says that info will be revealed in June.
For now we know that the bike is targeting a power rating of around 80 horsepower (60 kW) and a city range of approximately 100 miles (160 km). The S2 Del Mar features a 0-60 mph time of around 3.1 seconds, offering urban riders a high performance bike that can handle commuting or pleasure rides – though not necessarily long pleasure rides at highway speeds.
Level 2 recharging is said to top up the battery from 20-80% in 75 minutes, though that is a far cry from the nearly 30-minute charge with the LiveWire One’s DC Fast Charging.
For commuters, though, it’s likely plenty. Most riders charge up on a lower power outlet overnight, and the S2 Del Mar isn’t really intended for cross country rides. But for apartment dwellers or anyone without home charging, the ability to get a mostly full charge in just over an hour will still be a major convenience compared to slower charging bikes.
So far test rides of the few prototype LiveWire S2 Del Mar’s have been few and far between. In fact, I seem to be the only motorcycle journalist who has had a chance to ride one which is strange, because the experience was absolutely incredible. Pretty much the only downside to the bike is that the range is modest. I don’t know the battery size as it hasn’t been released (and it wasn’t printed on the side), but I’d guess it will be revealed to be around 9-10 kWh. As a commuter bike, 100 miles (160 km) of city range will still probably be enough for most people.
Even with a modest battery, I still rode the bike all through NYC and New Jersey with range to spare. My testing included a mix of city traffic as well as highway riding at speeds that were not what legal scholars would define as “legal.”
So that one single solitary downside isn’t even that big of a deal for the type of riders the bike is targeting, as I discovered. And once you get past the fact that you won’t be taking this bike touring around the country, everything else is an upside. It’s powerful, fast, quiet, comfortable, sexy – and if you’re under 45 then the fact that it doesn’t have a huge H-D logo on it is probably another plus.
But why read about my thoughts on the S2 Del Mar when you can watch them in real time? Check out my ride video below for the full scoop. Oh, and a note to you Europeans: You might set an alarm for 16:00 on April 27 so you don’t miss out on the Launch Edition like I did.
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If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine a fruit cart, a cargo bike, and a Piaggio Ape all in one vehicle, now you’ve got your answer. I submit, for your approval, this week’s feature for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column – and it’s a beautiful doozie.
Feast your eyes on this salad slinging, coleslaw cruising, tuber taxiing produce chariot!
I think this electric vegetable trike might finally scratch the itch long felt by many of my readers. It seems every time I cover an electric trike, even the really cool ones, I always get commenters poo-poo-ing it for having two wheels in the rear instead of two wheels in the front. Well, here you go, folks!
Designed with two front wheels for maximum stability, this trike keeps your cucumbers in check through every corner. Because trust me, you don’t want to hit a pothole and suddenly be juggling peaches like you’re in Cirque du Soleil: Farmers Market Edition.
To avoid the extra cost of designing a linked steering system for a pair of front wheels, the engineers who brought this salad shuttle to life simply side-stepped that complexity altogether by steering the entire fixed front end. I’ve got articulating electric tractors that steer like this, and so if it works for a several-ton work machine, it should work for a couple hundred pounds of cargo bike.
Featuring a giant cargo bed up front with four cascading fruit baskets set up for roadside sales, this cargo bike is something of a blank slate. Sure, you could monetize grandma’s vegetable garden, or you could fill it with your own ideas and concoctions. Our exceedingly talented graphics wizard sees it as the perfect coffee and pastry e-bike for my new startup, The Handlebarista, and I’m not one to argue. Basically, the sky is the limit with a blank slate bike like this!
Sure, the quality doesn’t quite match something like a fancy Tern cargo bike. The rim brakes aren’t exactly confidence-inspiring, but at least there are three of them. And if they should all give out, or just not quite slow you down enough to avoid that quickly approaching brick wall, then at least you’ve got a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes as a tasty crumple zone.
The electrical system does seem a bit underpowered. With a 36V battery and a 250W motor, I don’t know if one-third of a horsepower is enough to haul a full load to the local farmer’s market. But I guess if the weight is a bit much for the little motor, you could always do some snacking along the way. On the other hand, all the pictures seem to show a non-electric version. So if this cart is presumably mobile on pedal power alone, then that extra motor assist, however small, is going to feel like a very welcome guest.
The $950 price is presumably for the electric version, since that’s what’s in the title of the listing, though I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. I’ve bought a LOT of stuff on Alibaba, including many electric vehicles, and the too-good-to-be-true price is always exactly that. In my experience, you can multiply the Alibaba price by 3-4x to get the actual landed price for things like these. Even so, $3,000-$4,000 wouldn’t be a terrible price, considering a lot of electric trikes stateside already cost that much and don’t even come with a quad-set of vegetable baskets on board!
I should also put my normal caveat in here about not actually buying one of these. Please, please don’t try to buy one of these awesome cargo e-trikes. This is a silly, tongue-in-cheek weekend column where I scour the ever-entertaining underbelly of China’s massive e-commerce site Alibaba in search of fun, quirky, and just plain awesomely weird electric vehicles. While I’ve successfully bought several fun things on the platform, I’ve also gotten scammed more than once, so this is not for the timid or the tight-budgeted among us.
That isn’t to say that some of my more stubborn readers haven’t followed in my footsteps before, ignoring my advice and setting out on their own wild journey. But please don’t be the one who risks it all and gets nothing in return. Don’t say I didn’t warn you; this is the warning.
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