This month, electric motorcycle companies Fuell and Energica went out of business. They join a list of companies that died after poor sales

  • Yer Ma@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I would absolutely love an ebike, but they are outrageously priced.

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      18 hours ago

      eBike or electric motorcycle? I see them used interchangeably sometimes but I always thought eBike included pedaling and topped out at like 35kph

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        14 hours ago

        Sorry I meant emotorbike, motorcycle

        Although ebycicles are also overpriced for the non crap ones

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          Yeah the emoto are super pricey.

          Ebikes definitely have more variability across the market. You can get a pretty damn good one in the 1k range, which seems reasonable given the price of batteries.

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        They’re supposed to top out at 28 mph (45kph) in the US, but people sometimes make or reprogram them to go faster. I usually refer to actual motorcycles as emoto to differentiate but its sounds like they mean emoto here.

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          11 hours ago

          They should rebrand as technobike or something. Give it it’s own cool name

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            10 hours ago

            If they could add stainless steel panels, make them rust outside, and drastically raise the price, that would be a huge step forward for a few thousand people apparently.

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          Yeah I was mostly asking because it seems like emoto is ruinously expensive while bikes are a pretty wide range