macribs
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8000 € too rich for my taste as long as there ain't no license plate. To put the price in context that 8000 € price tag will grow with another 2000 € due to VAT alone. Then there will be probably another 500 € worth of "handling fee" for sending me the VAT bill. Add oh I don't know maybe another 2-500 € for shipping and we are looking at 10 700 or even as much as 11.000 € for the RevX. I am not saying RevX is not worth that much, just not worth that much to me.
For under 8000 € I can get the Volta Sport motorcycle from Spain, 34 kw electric with the bigger battery.What can I get for 11.000 €? A brand spanking new ready to ride Zero FXS or if a put down another 2000 I can get a brand new Zero DS, with the Zero I also reduces the risk factor, because of their 5 year warranty. And that includes the battery pack as well. For the same price I can even the ever so slick italian electric motard Tacita T-Race with Ohlins suspension. And that is what makes bikes like RevX obsolete, because you can't use em every where. Both the FXS and the Tacita T race you can have as much fun off road as on road. And you get pretty good warranty. You have full insurance. Can even drive on the highway if need be.
Fun fact, if the RevX was road legal I would not have to pay VAT on import (no VAT on import of road legal electric vehicles) so that would have saved me about 2500 €. And then I could ride it wherever without fear of the ongoing police take down of fast electric bikes.
Seems one option is to go for sur ron, as it has been homologated in EU now. Sure only as moped 45km/h but ok that is a start. Maybe someone will come up with a clever way to get it legalized as an A1? (125cc equal class). If not you still got the legal license plate, so at least you got that covered.
For under 8000 € I can get the Volta Sport motorcycle from Spain, 34 kw electric with the bigger battery.What can I get for 11.000 €? A brand spanking new ready to ride Zero FXS or if a put down another 2000 I can get a brand new Zero DS, with the Zero I also reduces the risk factor, because of their 5 year warranty. And that includes the battery pack as well. For the same price I can even the ever so slick italian electric motard Tacita T-Race with Ohlins suspension. And that is what makes bikes like RevX obsolete, because you can't use em every where. Both the FXS and the Tacita T race you can have as much fun off road as on road. And you get pretty good warranty. You have full insurance. Can even drive on the highway if need be.
Fun fact, if the RevX was road legal I would not have to pay VAT on import (no VAT on import of road legal electric vehicles) so that would have saved me about 2500 €. And then I could ride it wherever without fear of the ongoing police take down of fast electric bikes.
Seems one option is to go for sur ron, as it has been homologated in EU now. Sure only as moped 45km/h but ok that is a start. Maybe someone will come up with a clever way to get it legalized as an A1? (125cc equal class). If not you still got the legal license plate, so at least you got that covered.