Originally Posted by FXDXTSport

Good ol Jerry Brown is talking about banning the internal combustion engine in California. I'm willing to bet they will ban, at a minimum, the sale of internal combustion vehicles within 10 years. So, if you live in California you may not have a choice if you still want to be on two wheels. The nutcases running the city of Seattle are also talking about banning the internal combustion engine during rush hours by 2020.

From Bloomberg: The internal combustion engine’s days may be numbered in California, where officials are mulling whether a ban on sales of polluting autos is needed to achieve long-term targets for cleaner air.

Governor Jerry Brown has expressed an interest in barring the sale of vehicles powered by internal-combustion engines, Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, said in an interview Friday at Bloomberg headquarters in New York.

Brown, one of the most outspoken elected official in the U.S. about the need for policies to combat climate change, would be replicating similar moves by China, France and the U.K.

Originally Posted by 95th 1200

HD already has an electric bike, Livewire. Whether or not it will go into production in its current form or is the launching pads for further development is unknown.

Originally Posted by Yamaharley

Nope. On a motorcycle you need some noise. My wr has a stock exhaust and some people are so oblivious that they don't notice you. I want to pipe it just to be noticed by other drivers.

Originally Posted by overthehill?

If they could incorporate the sound, shake and feel when you twist the throttle sure, why not.

Originally Posted by groupw

........ what sound ?
.. the burning rubber sound ?
........ the wind ?
..... all that'd still be real
... i choose to believe that not even the MoCo would stoop to 'speaker-ing' a recording of engine noise
......... but if they somehow did, i'm sure the sound file would be copyright protected
................. and, there'd be an SE upgrade version