2020 HARLEY-DAVIDSON LIVEWIRE
R I D E R E V I E W
P98
(Left) With the shock bolted straight to the
swingarm, the ride at the back end is a little harsh.
(Right) Purely silence from the steel belt. Lovely.
(Far right) Fit and finish on the LiveWire is excellent.
The metallic paint comes up real nice.
showed, and I was off and running.
My ride included a little bit of subur-
bia, a quick stint on the freeway, a
canyon scratch, some more suburbia,
and another short highway leg home.
That totaled 73.4 miles, leaving me
with seven percent charge available
and a quoted six miles of range.
Granted, this was in the Road
mode (you get Sport, Road, Rain and
Range—that final mode is designed to
work the regenerative braking as hard
as possible to get more charge back
into the battery when you roll off the
throttle). I should have put it in Range
but wanted to see how far I'd go just
using the Road setting, which offers a
little less regenerative braking.
The result? A possible 80-miles
range in Road mode. For a $29,799
MSRP motorcycle. Excuse me in my
criticism, but that's a joke. When I re-
turned home, I plugged the LiveWire
into the wall and was shown it would
take 10 hours and 43 minutes to
charge back to full.
Harley-Davidson did not fit Level
Two charging (Level One and Two
charge at the same rate), but you can
roll up to any Level Three DC Fast
