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    Harley-Davidson and Zero launch new electric street bikes

    by Charles Fleming, Los Angeles Times Dec 20, 2019 5 minutes

    America's largest motorcycle company and its most successful manufacturer of electric motorcycles are going head-to-head with a pair of battery-powered street bikes.

    Harley-Davidson has begun selling its dynamic new LiveWire, the Milwaukee-based giant's first battery bike, and the first in a coming line of many such two-wheelers.

    Zero Motorcycles has started deliveries of the Zero SR/F, the fastest and most powerful electric machine yet from the 13-year-old Scotts Valley, Calif., company.

    I rode both and came away surprised by which bike I preferred.

    Harley-Davidson first unveiled its battery-electric LiveWire in 2014 to a disbelieving motorcycle audience. Critics and hard-core Harley riders scoffed, and many believed the bike would never come to market.

    But last year, company President and Chief Executive Matt Levatich, struggling to correct a downward stock slide and

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