Posted on 06/06/2023 2:57:02 PM PDT by BraveMan
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says new federal legislation would make electric motorcycles more affordable while supporting manufacturers including Harley-Davidson.
The Madison Dem last week introduced the Electric Motorcycle Parity Act alongside U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. The bill would add certain qualifying motorcycles to the list of vehicles that qualify for tax credits under the federal Inflation Reduction Act.
In a statement on the bill, Baldwin said the IRA boosts domestic manufacturing while addressing climate change but “left motorcycle riders and our motorcycle manufacturers out of the equation.”
“The Electric Motorcycle Parity Act will support Wisconsin workers and iconic businesses like Harley-Davidson and help give Wisconsinites more choices to buy more affordable, efficient vehicles made by American companies,” she said.
According to the release, the bill is endorsed by Harley-Davidson as well as LiveWire, an electric motorcycle manufacturer first launched as an electric vehicle division of the Milwaukee-based motorcycle business. It has since spun off into a separate entity with headquarters in Milwaukee and California.
“The Electric Motorcycle Parity Act seeks to provide riders of electric motorcycles with the same support provided to drivers of electric cars,” LiveWire President Ryan Morrissey said in Baldwin’s release.
Other supporters include the United Steelworkers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
See more on the bill: https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/electric_motorcycle_parity_act_one-pager.pdf
See the release: https://www.wispolitics.com/2023/u-s-sens-baldwin-casey-introduce-legislation-to-extend-tax-credits-to-electric-motorcycles
Now they’re coming for our motorcycles…
I will kill any man who comes for my bikes. And then hunt down those who sent them. And then hack all of their social media and post photoshopped (or not) pictures of them licking their own asses for all, um...(sorry) posterity.
Anyone walked on a downtown sidewalk lately?
The electric motorcycles are already here.
Most of them are driving on the sidewalk!
I was commuting 80 miles a day...I looked into E-bikes. The BEST e-bike that was capable of this task cost as much as a new Goldwing ($25K), and would have to be fully recharged every night. Whereas the Goldwing would only need to be refueled every 3-4 days. And of course the Goldwing had all sorts of extra features to make the commute comfortable. The e-bike had zero storage and was pretty much stripped down. No way I wouldn’t go for the Goldwing instead, no matter the gubmint incentives.
And BTW...anything the government has to subsidize is NOT commercially competitive by definition.
If you are talking about a vehicle to ride 25 miles each way to work and back, an electric motorcycle makes more sense than many electric cars.
If you want to ride from Houston to Sturgis, maybe not.
Ready for the next Dumb and Dumber sequel someday. Electric.
As mentioned in the movie “Our hog is outside.”
Why the kcuf am I paying for someones gnikcuf electric motorcycle toy?
Marxist POS.
And then it will die.
Electric bike would be OK around town, but they’re too expensive, too heavy and don’t have enough range. The advantage would be low maintenance a not sitting over a hot engine in summer.
All the online motorcycle sites endlessly hawk these piles of crap. Range really sucks. You simply can’t fit large enough batteries on a motorcycle.
Zero Motorcycles sells an e-dirt bike. The battery lasts about an hour of hard riding. A spare battery costs thousands. For a day of riding you need two batteries and a generator to charge one while you use the other. Don’t criticize it though. You’ll get banned.
How about this for a novel idea? . . . Let people form companies to manufacture vehicles of all sorts - solar powered, gasoline or diesel powered, wind powered, electric powered, three-wheeled, two-wheeled, unicycles, four-six wheeled.
Then market them and let drivers and riders and wives decide what to buy based on need, desire, and costs. voile! Taxpayers can stay completely out of it.
They’re coming for everyone’s personal transportation. The deep state doesn’t want you armed, it doesn’t want you mobile, it doesn’t want you with any significant financial resources - in fact they want you depended on the government so as to better control you. They don’t want you to have your own home. The don’t want you at all just your money and when that’s gone you have no further use to the state.
I have a MC that gets 65+ miles per gallon. I have zero need for some battery powered MC with high output Maytag motor...
On the HBO show Westworld, which takes place some time in the future, there is an electric motorbike that one character programs into a self-driving weapon.
Oh, why stop there? Just buy and send an electric motorcycle to every household.
Good point. The weight of the batteries on a big frame “twin engine” style bike capable of long distance riding would be rather dramatic compared to the 40 pounds or so of a full 5 gallon tank. I guess they could engineer the balance but whether you could charge it every day or twice a day?
And the silence could be deadly. May need to have artificial sound device which could be beneficial especially if they had it facing forward instead of out of the tailpipes so cars in front of you would know you were coming up behind them or between them or passing.
How to get Harley Davidson to be woke in everything they do...101.
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