Honda has released its roadmap for the transition from gasoline-powered to electrics and that includes saying goodbye to your gas bikes.
Honda has released its roadmap for the transition from gasoline-powered to electrics and that includes saying goodbye to your gas bikes.
Agree. But who knows what tech they might have by then.
I don’t see it happening, but you never know.
Most bike riders I know are weekender, who ride anywhere from 150 to 400km a day. Hard riding. I don’t know if electrics can even do that yet? Not sure.
That’s optimistic and I like that, but a company like Honda doesn’t make decisions based on optimism. They’re confined by government regulations and bottom line profit. I heard last year that they had planned to discontinue the Goldwing soon due to JP environmental regulations, so this announcement doesn’t surprise me. The Goldiwng is a 6 cyl with a 5 gal tank that estimates about 300 mile range. I do hope that at some point in my life we will see comparable range performance in EVs. The pessimist in me is worried we’re going to be limited in the distances we can travel in a day. The last time I made a trip across the US from California to home it took 3 days. I can’t imagine how long it would have taken if we had to stop to charge every 200-250 miles. I haven’t even heard of an EV cycle with anything near that range yet. 15 years isn’t that far away.