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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: Model Year 2021 (Oct 13 release date)
« on: October 05, 2020, 12:04:24 AM »Hi infiniteoffset, welcome aboard.
Hello, thanks for welcoming me.
So 1a.
At the very least all motorcyclists should complain about a system that's a money grab and a hindrance to people riding motorcycles.
I mean, yeah.
1b.
That is our law for sub 50cc gas scooters as well. Here you basically know that that person had a DUI or lost their license and so now they have to get a scooter. They end up being a dangerous obstacle in the road for people going much faster.
In some countries they upgraded this to 125cc with automatic snifter where Zero S falls to. Yay.
2.If the bike can be unlocked to higher level by user, then government will want to check it through some internet API or something for sure. But if this will come it's distant future and maybe not something we even want (something something Chinese social credit system).
How do they check the power on the EU Zero S bikes now?
I'd guess they just trust Zero will comply with the power limit after maybe a first test.
No difference with a "grow with you" S. Comes into the country weak. Then the rider comes in and gives their full power motorcycle license number to the Zero Dealer. The dealer ups the bikes power and has a record that the guy passed his test.
We know that limiting already works since there are electric vehicles. For example Sur Ron has road legal and dirt versions that are the same bike, one just have limiter installed (that can be easily removed, but let's ignore that since we discuss legality here). So they could make S and SR based on a same hardware for sure. Would that be cheaper? Only Zero company knows. But it wouldn't have the grow feature, because once you would change the limiter it would be illegal to ride on it.
How I imagine the grow feature could be implemented without changing the legislation is that the limiter could be changed in official Zero service. Before changing it, you would cancel it's registration. Service would change the limiter and give you new papers. Then you would register it again. Maybe something like this could work without big changes in legislation, I'm just rambling here so IDK.