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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2012 and older / Re: 2012 Zeros Recalled!
« on: May 01, 2018, 01:50:47 AM »
Per the NHTSA filing, Zero Motorcycles will be mailing certified letters to owners in North America today. Translated materials and details for other regions are in process and should be mailed within the next week. Emails will also be sent this week.

Thank you for your patience.
Chris Langlois
Zero Motorcycles Customer Experience Team

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2012 and older / Re: 2012 Zeros Recalled!
« on: April 13, 2018, 01:40:45 AM »
Hi Electric Motorcycle Forum,

As a community of Zero motorcycle owners, we want you to be among the first to know about a recall on certain 2012 motorcycles that NHTSA officially published today. The recall only affects model year 2012 Zero S, Zero DS and Zero DSP models. The official recall notice is posted here:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=18V215

If you own a Zero that is any model year or model aside from the 2012 Zero S, Zero DS and Zero DSP models, then you will not be affected by this recall.  If you do own one of these affected models, and we have your info on file, then you should be receiving an official letter from us. We are coordinating with NHTSA on finalizing the official customer notification letter and will mail these no later than April 30. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please email us in North America at 2012-recall-na@zeromotorcycles.com or in Europe at 2012-recall-eu@zeromotorcycles.com. We appreciate your commitment to Zero over the last 11 years of riding. Specific to our owners of 2012 Zero S, DS and DSP models, you were among the earliest adopters of our motorcycles and are a critical part of the electric motorcycle movement.  We remain committed to providing the best service possible to our consumers and are working to make the recall process as simple and straightforward for you as possible.   

Sincerely,

Chris Langlois
Zero Motorcycles Customer Experience Team

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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2012 and older / Re: 2011 XU died on me
« on: January 16, 2013, 09:46:27 PM »
Hi Pinaz,
The reason OBD2 doesn't work on these, the same way it does in cars, is that the OBD2 protocol was based around fuel injection and not electric vehicles.  While the connector is the same it is a completely different software interface.  All the "DTC" information in a standard OBD2 tool is standardized EFI with small variances and additions allowed by individual manufacturers to meet their needs if the standard info doesn't apply.  For example, an O2 sensor is an O2 sensor industry wide so the codes are all the same.  However, if a manufacturer uses a different method for monitoring the oxygen content then the codes wouldn't work so they could create their own for their method.

Since the EV industry is still so new, there really isn't much standardization with the software and coding.  The fact that Zero chose to use the OBD2 connector is good due to the fact that at some point there will be standards and they'll be ahead of the game.  They could have easily used some other connector that carried the number of wires they needed for communications.  Making it very manufacturer specific.

I hope this helps shed some light on the "OBD2" issue here.

 :)Triplerider

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