Harley-Davidson Arrow Platform To Power Three New EVs

Harley-Davidson is developing a new EV platform called Arrow, which will join the LiveWire One, and will be used across a variety of bikes, with varied performance, range and style. The development comes soon after Harley-Davidson's announcement of a partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer KYMCO under LiveWire, Harley-Davidson's electric motorcycle division. In a separate presentation to investors, LiveWire showcased future EV models, and as many as three upcoming EV models will be based on the new Arrow platform. The S2, S3 and S4 models, as they are codenamed, will be a range of entry-level lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight EVs, and all three bikes will share the same scalable modular architecture, with different battery sizes and performance capacity.

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The LiveWire Arrow platform will have a modular architecture and will form the base for different EVs with varying performance, and range.

The Arrow platform is a modular design with a central battery pack that doubles up as a monocoque frame. A steering head stock is mounted at the front allowing different head angles and wheelbases to be adopted by changing just that single part. At the back, different swingarms, as well as different motors can be bolted to the central monocoque allowing for several different models, with varying performance and range. According to the firm's investor documents, there will be 50 V, 100 V, 350 V and 400+ V versions, which can be either air-cooled or liquid-cooled.

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LiveWire has been spun off from Harley-Davidson as a separate brand dealing in EVs for Harley-Davidson. The first LiveWire electric Harley-Davidson motorcycle has now been renamed the LiveWire One, and the next electric motorcycle will likely be the S2, rumoured to be called Del Mar. The S2 will be extended to a line of middleweight machines, and will be joined later by S3, using a scaled down version of the Arrow architecture. The models based on the Arrow platform will be the result of the partnership announced with KYMCO.