There is a interesting article in Australian Motorcycle News May 2012 Vol61 No22 p62-66
Interviewing Karl Wharton who was instrumental in Triumph re-launch and worked as Managing Director/CEO for 17 years now works as Chief Operating Officer and under his direction Zero has transforms itself into a mainstream motorcycle manufacturer with a dedicated dealer network. Also the development team is headed by former Buell technical boss Abe Askenazi has dramatically extened both range and performance of its 2012 range.
Article is mainly about zero history and investments of venture capital and interviewing about Karl Wharton's career etc and his plan is to concentrate on setting up dealer network in USA and next Europe mainly UK and Germany, and also Switzerland where electric vehicle have very friendly legislation.
below is quoted from article
"How about Australia?"
"We have to be careful we don't spread ourselves too thin in the early days, since then you wont get the penetration that you need to in the key markets. But Australia is definitely somewhere we have our eye on - its in transition stage at the moment, and we're talking to two or three people to move it again to a more tradition dealer model within Australia. I'm hopeful we'll have something in place there soon."
Well I am impressed to see these people leading zero to improve the bike and it marketing. like others have said pre 2012 were prototypes. I definitely has encouraged me to continue with purchasing a zero as my next bike.
Updated: 22/05/2012
I just read
Building the Future – Zero Motorcycles' Karl Wharton which is pretty much same as AMN but without the question about Australia. Even the same photos.
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