FIRST REVIEW
P102
LIGHTING STRIKE
FIRST REVIEW
P102
with them, basically to address
the environmental problems that
they face at present. There's a lot
of political will for electric motors
in Central Government in India, so
they're going to have ever more
restrictive levels of emissions,
and it's going to be very difficult
to make any viable cost-benefit of
cheap gas bikes, going forward.
Together, the two largest motorcy-
cle markets in the world will both
predominantly focus on electric
makes sense to do so geo-
graphically—not only China
itself, which we see as a key
market for Lightning but also
India, in particular. China is
definitely going to be one of
the biggest markets in the world for
electric motorcycles as opposed
to scooters in the next few years,
but we think India will be right there
where we'll assemble bikes
destined for North America, and
some of our export markets.
Then we'll ship each motorcycle
as a CKD (complete knockdown)
kit into our US dealers and our
distributors in other countries,
where they'll hand assemble
them locally. We'll also build
complete motorcycles in China
for certain markets where it
The beautifully crafted
swingarm is machined from
solid aluminum billet.
