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[expevride]

It has been 3 weeks since my deposit on a 2012 DS ZF9, anyone have info on why it's taking so long? What's the rate of production and how many are being shipped out and to where??

I received my DS ZF9 on 4/5/2012 and absolutely love it!  Drove it home from the dealer (60 miles) and still had 3 bars of "juice" left half of the trip was 60-70mph and the rest 40-50 rural traffic. These bikes are great, they do what the company says they will do, if anyone is on the fence about these bikes, jump off the fence and on a Zero!

[Richard230]

All I can tell you is that they started shipping to dealers around the factory located near Santa Cruz, California in late January and the bikes have been spreading all over the U.S., as far away as Florida. They have a relatively small factory and are turning them out as fast as possible. I hear that sales are very good. The owner of Hollywood Electric said that he sold more electric motorcycles (I assume that he was speaking of the Zero) during the first two months of 2012 than he did throughout the previous two years.

Where are you located? One person reports that the first shipment of Zeros will be arriving in Spain next month.

I would recommend that you contact your dealer and ask them for a delivery update.

I might add that I placed my deposit in December and my bike arrived at my dealer (located about 80 miles from the factory) in February.

[expevride]

Finally got word my bike was shipped, hope to see it next week! One of the reasons it's taking so long is that the factory has to balance how many bike go to Asia, Europe, and wherever else they sell them to.

[Richard230]

Finally got word my bike was shipped, hope to see it next week! One of the reasons it's taking so long is that the factory has to balance how many bike go to Asia, Europe, and wherever else they sell them to.

That is a problem that BMW has every time they come out with a new model. Their business plan is to hold back delivering any "units" within a distributorship area (such as North America) until they have enough for every dealer to have a demonstrator, to satisfy every pre-order customer and at least one more per dealer to sell to a walk-in customer.  That really can result in a long wait for you to get a new bike that you placed a $500 deposit on.  In my case, I ordered a new F650GS twin in March of 2008, it was built in June, it arrived at the U.S. BMW warehouse in July and was held there for more units to arrive from the factory until September of 2008, when my bike finally arrived at my dealer - two weeks after their demonstrator arrived.

So, from my perspective, Zero is doing a pretty good job of getting their new models out to their customers - compared to BMW, at least.

[Lipo423]

It is also good that Zero has -apparently- a more "international" focus...it is very typical for some manufacturers (in Europe & the US) to fill-in local demand, and afterwards to take care of overseas customers.
As Richard pointed out, Zero's 2012 models are hitting the Netherlands in a few days for European distribution.

My "Spanish" ZF9 is in one of these containers...

[manlytom]

kind of international. A fairly large motorcycle is left out so far with Australia. ... guess we need to change that.

[firepower]

kind of international. A fairly large motorcycle is left out so far with Australia. ... guess we need to change that.

Are local dealers waiting for older models to sell before importing more?
or is it Australia low on the list of priority? I know our population is small and , motorcyclist is a small fraction of that, and electric motorcycles demand would be even smaller fraction of that!.