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INSANE: Livewire - The Real Truth

Is Harley's New Low-Cost Beginner Bike What It's Been Missing? Probably

Full details on the LiveWire S4 Honcho are here, and there are two versions: Street and Trail. Both cost under $6,000; here's what you need to know about the brand's upcoming mini moto.

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Harley's LiveWire Just Bought This EV Dirt Bike Startup, And That Might Save It

Dust Moto, a small EV dirt bike startup, was just purchased by Harley-Davidson's LiveWire EV offshoot. And after years of unbelievably poor sales, this could be the shot in the arm LiveWire needs to survive.

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LiveWire's 2026 Has Been Positive, But Also Illustrates How Stats Can Mislead You

If I sold one bike last year, and I sold two bikes this year, guess what? That means my sales jumped by 100 percent! Cool story, right? That's the game Harley-Davidson's LiveWire is playing.

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Harley's Profits Are Way Down Over Last Year's

North American sales are up for Harley-Davidson, and Latin American sales are slightly up. But EMEA and Asia Pacific sales were down year on year. And profits are worse.

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Harley-Davidson Thinks It Can Quadruple Profits Even As Dealerships Close And Sales Plummet

Harley-Davidson's sales have been in freefall for decades now, as older generations stopped buying new motorcycles, and younger generations don't want or can't afford the Motor Co.'s offerings. So color us surprised when the new CEO announced his intent to quadruple profitability in less than five years.

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Anyone Who Bought a LiveWire Before the Ridiculous Price Drop Is Getting Screwed

LiveWire dropped the MSRP of the One by €10,000 in Europe, meaning the resale value of used bikes will take an ungodly hit.

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LiveWire Slashes Prices Overseas To Compete With Honda’s WN7, Creating a New Financial Issue

LiveWire has slashed the price of the One in Europe by around €10,000 to compete with Honda's WN7, but is it cannibalizing S2 sales in the process?

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LiveWire Sales Up Slightly In 2025, But Still Didn't Sell Over 1,000 Motorcycles Last Year

The Harley-Davidson-owned EV motorcycle brand also posted losses, but the good news is they are smaller than in 2024, at least.

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7 Independent Comic Books With Major Black Characters You Must Know About

Most major Black characters are usually a small group of well-known names. Storm, Black Lightning, Miles Morales, Black Panther, and so on. While these are legendary and iconic characters, they are not the only Black superheroes or comic characters out there.

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Can Donut's High-Range Solid-State Battery Really Save EV Motorcycles?

The specs of Donut Lab's solid-state battery are impressive. As are those in the first application, Verge's TS Pro EV motorcycle. But the bike crowd needs a lot more convincing.

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The 5 hottest electric motorcycles from the EICMA 2025 show

Scooters look like the next big EV battleground, as big names turn to small capacity to drum up sales –here are all the highlights from EICMA 2025.

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LiveWire Is Bringing Two New Models To EICMA, What Do You Think?

Harley’s electric mobility brand is set to debut two new offerings in Italy next month, but do we want them?

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Is Harley-Davidson Working On An Electric Heavyweight Cruiser?

Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire has filed a trademark for the S4 Honcho, an electric motorcycle targeted squarely at the Bar and Shield’s heavyweight cruiser segment.

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LiveWire Slashes EV Motorcycle Prices, But Will Anyone Care?

Harley-Davidson's all-electric sibling, LiveWire, isn't doing hot in terms of sales, revenue, or expenditures. Will a price slash help? Eh.

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Joe Biden Paid $89 Million To Boost Electric Motorcycle Production. It's Failing.

LiveWire, an electric motorcycle company, sold just 55 motorcycles in Q2 2025 despite receiving millions of dollars in federal backing.

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Harley-Davidson Just Sold Part Of Its Financing Service, the One Cash Cow It Still Had

Harley-Davidson is split into three parts: the Motorcycle Company, Financial Services, and LiveWire. But Financial Services was the one that reliably made money.

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You Can Get Your Motorcycle License With an EV Now, Good

Electric motorcycles are great gateways to motorcycling as a whole, and now you can use them to obtain your motorcycle license through the DMV and training programs.

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Is LiveWire About To Take On Zero With These New, Less Expensive EV Bikes?

LiveWire is already onto the next thing in the background, and it's a whole new EV platform that's under development to bring small displacement equivalent EVs.

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Something Weird Is Happening at LiveWire. What's Up With Its Stock?

It's no secret that EV motorcycle maker LiveWire has been having a rough time. But then its value suddenly got higher than it had in months, and many stocks got sold.

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Harley's Outgoing CEO Blames EV Charging Infrastructure for LiveWire's Struggles

Before I really dig into this, I want to state something very directly. On the whole, I like EV motorcycles. I've ridden quite a few, and I've found something to enjoy about every single one.

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Here's the Electric Motorcycle Harley-Davidson Should Build, and It's Not a Cruiser

I have a lot of issues with the current corporate power fight that's raging inside Harley-Davidson. From (newly) activist investors, to those same investors not being able to spell Harley-Davidson correctly in their grievances. But one thing I do tend to agree with them on is that the situation at…

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Harley-Davidson Q1 Financials Are Out, and They're Not Good

"Do you want the good news first, or the bad news first?" is probably something you've asked other people before. And if you, like me, are currently looking at Harley-Davidson's Q1 2025 financial results, then you might find yourself asking whether whoever wrote this asked themselves that question, too.

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Harley-Davidson Investors Want EVs Axed, Don't Have a Grasp on Industry Realities

The fight for who controls Harley-Davidson continues, as H Partners Management—the investment firm that had a seat on the brand's board of directors until their man resigned in protest because he wasn't allowed to pick the company's new CEO—has found another investor to join its campaign.

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LiveWire Will Now Offer a Police Package Electric Motorcycle

There's a time and a place for electric motorcycles. At least at present. But this one, well, this one wasn't something I thought of, but now that I'm staring at the finished product, it makes a lot of sense. Let me introduce you to LiveWire's S2 Patrol.

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Does Europe Want a $20,000 LiveWire?

You could say that LiveWire has always had a bit of an identity crisis. It was originally launched as the first all-electric model under the Harley brand, a symbol of its daringness to venture into the world of electrification. But not long after, it was spun off into its own…

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