Today was the day. I picked up my brand new Zero SR/S Premium. I'm pretty impressed with the bike so far. I don't have the extra battery just yet (hopefully next week) but I can still do around 150 km on county roads. With the extra battery it should be 25% more range.
It feels totally different from what I'm used to. No engine start, no clutch lever, no gears... you basically just turn the key and a few seconds later the bike is live without making a sound.
The acceleration and how quickly it is available is very similar to my M3.
I can live with the range restrictions, however I don't understand why the bike doesn't come with DCFC. In my configuration I'm limited to 6 kW. Sure, I could've opted to buy the so called charge tank which increases the maximum charging power to 12 kW, but that seemed pointless to me. There are barely any chargers that can do more than 6 or 7.2 kW around here, so why bother?
Anyway, L2 charging from empty to 95% will take about 2.5 hours. Either I stick to shorter tours or I'll have to make long stops to recharge. It appears that other manufacturers do have DCFC so there is really no good reason why the Zero can't do it.
The customization options are pretty extensive. I chose a custom mode with no restrictions in regards to power, torque, top speed and regen. I'll probably behave for the most part, but if someone challenges me, I'd rather not start fiddling around with the drive modes. In Tesla terms it would be sport mode with full regen. You can still go slow, but if you need power, it's there... plenty of it.
Are there more EV bikers in this forum? It would be interesting to get some real life data.
It feels totally different from what I'm used to. No engine start, no clutch lever, no gears... you basically just turn the key and a few seconds later the bike is live without making a sound.
The acceleration and how quickly it is available is very similar to my M3.
I can live with the range restrictions, however I don't understand why the bike doesn't come with DCFC. In my configuration I'm limited to 6 kW. Sure, I could've opted to buy the so called charge tank which increases the maximum charging power to 12 kW, but that seemed pointless to me. There are barely any chargers that can do more than 6 or 7.2 kW around here, so why bother?
Anyway, L2 charging from empty to 95% will take about 2.5 hours. Either I stick to shorter tours or I'll have to make long stops to recharge. It appears that other manufacturers do have DCFC so there is really no good reason why the Zero can't do it.
The customization options are pretty extensive. I chose a custom mode with no restrictions in regards to power, torque, top speed and regen. I'll probably behave for the most part, but if someone challenges me, I'd rather not start fiddling around with the drive modes. In Tesla terms it would be sport mode with full regen. You can still go slow, but if you need power, it's there... plenty of it.
Are there more EV bikers in this forum? It would be interesting to get some real life data.
