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Old Jan 16, 2023 | 12:35 PM
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CEO of HD just announced they are going all-electric within a decade. Gooodbye V-Twin.
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Old Jan 16, 2023 | 12:40 PM
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Umm found this is all
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/motoring/n...re/ar-AA16jUjY


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So what if they do. I will not spend a dime on the darn things.
I still own a 1996 EVO that runs great.

Their last tempt ended up 370 million in the whole. They could sell them . They handed it off to a different store front.
 
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Old Jan 16, 2023 | 01:27 PM
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i dont see that going well. a hydrogen powered harley could be interesting though...
 
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Originally Posted by evotrike
CEO of HD just announced they are going all-electric within a decade. Gooodbye V-Twin.
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Ok, give us a link to that announcement...
 
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I saw that the other day.

Heh.

Just corporate posturing for the Davos crowd. Pathetic, actually.

Remember back in the '90's when every company went on the "Mission Statement" bandwagon? They were all the same: A big bowl full of word salad, but always including "world class", "synergies" and "by the year 2000". Naturally, 2000 came and went, and all the world-class synergies were no where to be found.

The key as a CEO is to pick your date far enough into the future that you will be long gone by the time it comes around, but close enough so it has the appearance of at least being superficially plausible. The one thing you dare not do is put yourself in the position of having to eat your own dogfood. In the early '90's, that was "by the year 2000". Anymore, they just default back to "ten years".

Assuming HD still exists in 10 years (good odds, but no guarantee), they will still be making their traditional V-twin bikes. If anyone wants to place a bet otherwise, I'll cover any stakes.
 
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Ok, give us a link to that announcement...
Saw it on newsmax, I think.
 
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Ok, give us a link to that announcement...


https://www.topspeed.com/harley-davi...electric-soon/
 
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Originally Posted by Omaha Derby Covers
I saw that the other day.

Heh.

Just corporate posturing for the Davos crowd. Pathetic, actually.

Remember back in the '90's when every company went on the "Mission Statement" bandwagon? They were all the same: A big bowl full of word salad, but always including "world class", "synergies" and "by the year 2000". Naturally, 2000 came and went, and all the world-class synergies were no where to be found.

The key as a CEO is to pick your date far enough into the future that you will be long gone by the time it comes around, but close enough so it has the appearance of at least being superficially plausible. The one thing you dare not do is put yourself in the position of having to eat your own dogfood. In the early '90's, that was "by the year 2000". Anymore, they just default back to "ten years".

Assuming HD still exists in 10 years (good odds, but no guarantee), they will still be making their traditional V-twin bikes. If anyone wants to place a bet otherwise, I'll cover any stakes.
So very true, that crap infiltrated the military…but i would get verbal reprimands every time I said our mission was to kill people, especially since I was AMMO and we made sure everything used to kill/wage war was ready.
 

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Nowhere in that article does it say the moco will be all electric within 10 years.
 
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