Right, to me the biggest news is the new Integrated Permanent Magnet motor! This is huge! It means less thermal cutbacks, cooler more efficient running, and more options for performance tuning as it won't necessarily have the same rpm limitations that the non IPM motors did due to glue and band strength. The heart of the bike just got stronger!! This is a pretty intense improvement!
How many complained about thermal cutbacks commuting? You can't ever please everybody, but I'll bet it's mostly smiles from here on!
Plus the FXS? much more range (from 70 miles range last year to 90 miles this year!!!) and this bike will be a beast to ride around town! 3.8 sec 0-60 and less than 300 pounds? For people with less than a 40 mile commute to work, this might be the absolute ideal vehicle to make you as happy as you can be each morning and evening.
I like seeing another battery improvement a year after seeing a big jump. 5% per year is better than Tesla has been doing. In 4 years they went from 85 kWh to 90. Zero went from 4.1 kWh to 15.9. I'd say Zero is killing it compared to everyone else out there!
My 2015 Zero does everything I could want. The 2016 is even better! I don't see why this wouldn't suit almost everyone's daily riding needs by a huge margin!
Want to road trip? Get either of the new charge tanks. If you get the bigger DigiNow one, then the Zero can be your only vehicle as you can go anywhere with it.
I'd be surprised if I see anyone who buys a 2016 complaining about anything, just constant smiles! The bikes getting quite refined, and you can do things on Zero's you can't do on any other motorcycle. I know I love the technology so some might think I'm biased, but if I could choose any vehicle on the planet to ride, it would be my Zero just as it is. I love it! Well I would want to be able to accelerate 0-100 in under 2 seconds, but then again no factory vehicle can do that, and that's probably not a normal want so I'm just a little different I guess. Now with ABS from last year, it's pretty perfect as it is for everything I do.
Considering the Nissan LEAF didn't change almost a single thing in 6 years, I think it's quite impressive that Zero changes things each year. Remember the Brammo Empulse we heard about in early 2010? Polaris/Victory is now selling it and it also is almost exactly the same as we saw it 6 years ago too. Zero Motorcycles does a pretty awesome job!