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Title: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: Richard230 on January 28, 2015, 04:17:29 AM: Energica keeps chugging along and has now found a dealer in Canada:

https://rideapart.com/articles/electric-motorcycle-energica-canada-shop?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HellForLeather+%28Hell+For+Leather%29
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: ultrarnr on January 28, 2015, 04:51:53 AM: Well they are ahead of Lightening and Mission! I am hoping they get a dealer on the east coast soon. Would like to check one of them out.
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: CrashCash on January 28, 2015, 04:52:47 AM: Yeah, I follow Chargepoint on Twitter, and they unveiled a new partnership with BMW and a couple states to fund more stations.

They had the Energica bikes parked on their display stand and talked a lot about them.

Hopefully this'll influence Zero and everyone else so that L2 charging becomes a standard feature.
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: ultrarnr on January 28, 2015, 05:03:51 AM: They also have DCFC but it is the CCS Combo plug so unless you live in California you are pretty much screwed. In NC everything is CHAdeMO.
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: CrashCash on January 28, 2015, 05:46:54 AM: Quote from: ultrarnr on January 28, 2015, 05:03:51 AM
They also have DCFC but it is the CCS Combo plug so unless you live in California you are pretty much screwed. In NC everything is CHAdeMO.
"That's the good thing about standards, there are so many to choose from..."
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: teddillard on January 28, 2015, 06:09:43 AM: Quote from: ultrarnr on January 28, 2015, 04:51:53 AM
Well they are ahead of Lightening and Mission! I am hoping they get a dealer on the east coast soon. Would like to check one of them out.

Well, not Lightning, since the Canadian distributor claims to handle them too (and Brammo):
http://insideevs.com/energica-signs-second-dealer-na-first-canada/ (http://insideevs.com/energica-signs-second-dealer-na-first-canada/)

;)

As far as Mission, my esteemed (at least I hold my opinion in high esteem) opinion is they're history. Wish it weren't so, but, that's how it looks to me.

One of these days I'm gonna get Richard to read my stuff first. You know. To get the facts straight lol.
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: Justin Andrews on January 28, 2015, 06:10:38 AM: Quote
"That's the good thing about standards, there are so many to choose from..."

Obligatory

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png)
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: jheth on February 26, 2015, 08:45:11 PM: DCFC is better. Move the big heavy charger equipment off the bike. Why carry 20+lb of charging equipment around with you all the time?
Title: Re: Energica moves into Canada
Post by: Doug S on February 27, 2015, 02:37:23 AM: Quote from: jheth on February 26, 2015, 08:45:11 PM
DCFC is better. Move the big heavy charger equipment off the bike. Why carry 20+lb of charging equipment around with you all the time?

Absolutely true. But what if the option simply isn't available, as it often isn't nowadays? I'm personally on the fence about getting the CHAdeMO adapter for my SR; I'd love the extra flexibility but I'm concerned that a lot of the charging stations aren't actually compatible. And before I'm shell out $1800 for a badly overpriced charging adapter, I'm going to need to be SURE it's going to work for me.