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TechCrunch

We talk to the CEO of Zero Motorcycles and visit their California factory to check out the new electric SR/F.



".... more a model S than a model 3 ..."
"Private equity partners invested allone about 250 million $ for the last 10 years of the 13"
(Samuel Pachel, CEO)

[JaimeC]

Can it still be called a "Start Up" if they've been in business for over a DECADE??

[Richard230]

I was surprised to hear that Zero has received $250 million in funding over the years, mostly from the same source.  Now that is dedication.  Much more so than the funding source that Alta Motors had.

[valnar]

I was surprised to hear that Zero has received $250 million in funding over the years, mostly from the same source.  Now that is dedication.  Much more so than the funding source that Alta Motors had.

It must be a labor of love.  I can't see that VC ever making their money back.

[Crissa]

Long-running startups are pretty common out here.

My spouse's company is nearly twenty years old and is still a startup - tho they've had a profitable product for over ten years of it.

-Crissa

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

I'll bet that major OEMs have put more money than that into electric motorcycles that they haven't shipped. And definitely other electric car startups have taken a documented huge amount more than Zero without delivering, and then imploded.

Zero, despite the limitations that entails, runs very lean for a vehicle startup. I think the admission here that they need to scale up production now and it's very difficult, is honest. It's a nice problem to have, but it's a serious problem - Zero can't sit where they are for long without either growing further or probably facing some consequences from investors or the market.

[shayan]

Here's a new interview of Sam Paschel from EICMA 2019



SR/F platform will obviously be the new base platform for all future Zero's. And looks like they're also aiming at a new production facility to meet demands for the SR/F.