2020 HARLEY-DAVIDSON LIVEWIRE
R I D E R E V I E W
P100
Ride position is
perfectly spaced
for a six-foot-tall
rider. Shorter
riders may
find the reach
to the bars a
touch long.
Charge station across the country
and go from zero to 80 percent in
40 minutes, or 100 percent in an
hour, and with the abundance of
Level Three stations around in popu-
lated urban areas, getting a charge
shouldn't be an issue. However, you
can't be happy if you ride for 80 miles
and you have to sit for an hour each
time you need a charge. Where the
LiveWire becomes a viable alternative
is if you ride 20-25 miles each way to
work and can charge it when you get
home, or even at work. Other than
that, it's not a convincing argument.
One interesting thing is that electric
motors, not just the Harley, are claimed
to attain better rage if you use them in
stop/start situations, like city traffic,
compared to using them at a constant
speed on the freeway, like gas bikes.
Harley claims 146 miles of range
when used in "city" riding, however,
I could not get a better average than
about 1.1-1.3 percent of range per mile
while riding around my local streets,
which was as close to NYC-style rid-
ing as I could get.
That would then get me close to
about 90-95 miles of range, way
below what Harley quotes. However,
I can't comment definitively on the
"city" range until I just take one into
downtown LA and dodge the tent
cities for a day. But then I'd be stuck
there, for at least an hour, until I got a
DC Fast Charge top up.
It must have been tough for Diego
Cardenas, the Californian who rode a
LiveWire from San Diego to the Cana-
dian border by riding the West Coast
Green Highway. The optimal word
