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General Category => Electric Motorcycle News => Topic started by: Richard230 on May 19, 2016, 08:42:53 PM
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Energica announces the opening of their first dedicated store in the U.S. It will be located at 53 Page Street in San Francisco. (That sounds a lot like the location of the original Dudley Perkins H-D store, where they were located for many years before being chased out of the San Francisco by high city-imposed employee costs and regulations.) Definitely not a cheap location. Good luck to Energica and I hope they can sell enough bikes to keep their business afloat in the U.S.
http://blog.motorcycle.com/2016/05/18/electric/energica-announces-first-flagship-store-u-s/ (http://blog.motorcycle.com/2016/05/18/electric/energica-announces-first-flagship-store-u-s/)
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And hopefully they get something on the east coast. I would love to check one out but not going to fly across the country to do it.
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Another article and this one mentions the ride that the company took on a naked Eva from LA to their new store in San Francisco. No mention of why Energica felt the need to "de-tune" the Eva (like all of the IC motorcycle manufactures seem to do with their naked versions of their sportbike models) , when converting the Ego to a "naked" model. ??? The store at 53 Page Street will open in July and the Eva will sell for $34,000.
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/05/23/energica-debuts-its-naked-eva-in-california/ (http://www.autoblog.com/2016/05/23/energica-debuts-its-naked-eva-in-california/)
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"I've got a bad feeling about this" Han Solo
$34,000 for a 124 MPH 124 mile range street fighter is a hard sale.
$14000 for a 102 MPH 122 mile range Zero SR
I think at $20,000 they could pull some people in for the EGO for sure, I believe Venom about the Ego having a much better ride quality than the Zero but the Eva's stats don't impress me enough for that kind of money.