Zero Electric Bikes at the #everythingelectric show.
Of course everything electric as its name implies is not just about electric cars this is the Zero Motorcycle company and there’s zero motorcycles which come in many variants as you can see as we stroll down here and uh a really interesting company they are doing displays which we’ll try and film for
You later today when they’re on as well to add into this video and then what we’ll try and do is have a talk to their PR spokesperson Tom Reynolds okay so here we are at zero motorcycles with their spokesperson Tom Reynolds Tom tell us a little bit about zero and what
We’re trying to achieve here yeah well I mean zero is obviously we’re 100% electric brand uh sort of a return to Australia zero been dip their toe in the Australian Market from time to time with a range of different importers and different parallel Imports and gray
Imports and so on but we’re part of the Peter Stevens group and it’s a pretty serious effort SE we’ve gone from you know a couple of bikes here and there our first order is over 100 bucks and we’ve just had them released Friday our homologation done pleased to hear we
Passed the noise test noise test and um the bikes are now released and you’ll see them in shop soon and uh hoping to make our first sale in the not to distant future so but the commitment from Peter Stevens group from Darren Monro CEO and our shareholders has been
Amazing and they’ve really backed Us in all the way and everything from we fixed the customer bike from 2015 before we were even involved fixed it up for nothing and returned it to them because we really want to show we are here in a serious way and the product you know the
Bike hasn’t been around for 10 minutes this is a pretty refined State of Affairs and uh yeah after my first ride I went oh I know how to sell these bums on seats like you have to ride it it’s a different experience and what are we
Looking at here what’s this one this is a 2023 we got a couple older models here um because we were able to get a couple older models in cuz they’re already ulated we’re able to used them we put them all in the demo we haven’t sold a
Single one these are older 2023 um um srf which is the the sports bike the SR Street range F fighter so it’s the old Street Fighter style bike it’s got the 14.4 Kow battery the new ones are all 74s so every year you’re getting 10% better battery 10% better but look this
Is the showcase performance bike so not to 100 under 3 seconds top speed of 200 um you know it’s just a genuine Performance Bike and you know the electric bike market performance had to be as good or bad because the fuel incentive doesn’t exist you know I was saying to someone if if
Fuel price is double it’s not 20 bucks to fill your bike it’s 40 and a lot of motorcycl to be like I don’t care I but if the family car goes from 100 to 200 you care so the incentive has always been to produ a bike that can perform as
Well as the petrol bike and everybody we knows ridden it is gone oh it exceeds that performance y yep and you wouldn’t probably buy this one being the performance for range but what would be the range roughly and and here here comes the magic word it varies so far
Sean my range has been terrible because this heavy right hand it turns out when you pull this back the joy comes out the other end so look in regen modes and certainly one of our our um our um duel Sports around the 300 mark but real world early days of ownership you won’t
Get near it but certainly there’s lots of regen modes and you create your own regen mode as well for me the choice mode here is the canyon mode which is power and high regen and you’re almost down to what they call one pedal so off the throttle it breaks and you just need
A bit of breaking you stop at the lights and then you’re over 200 220 250 and if you’re particularly careful yeah you can get around the 300 mark yep yep now the guy I’ve seen the guys riding I think the 17.3 in the demos is uh so that’s the
Newer version of the B yeah that’s the that’s the biggest battery they offer now yep yep and and that one’s got a a similar sort of range or that’s bit more bit more yeah so the um the dsrx100 K but no one complains about that no no
Exactly but if you’re not getting if you’re not getting 1,000 km in an EV all of a sudden it’s a disaster you know the the dat we get and the data we get from the from zero indicates that over 90% of owners charge at home on 240 or 110 Vol
Yeah so although they do level two um charging just go in there and have a look at that yep in terms of using commercial charges we it’s very rare and given the battery size there’s no call for DC charging someone oh why don’t you do DC and it’s like well it’s taking a
Fire hose to a packet of matches you know it’s a small battery by EV standards and so um normal AC or level two charging is all you really need and you know um the range is such that yeah you don’t even think about it and
Plugging it in you set up the U the charging status through the app how much do you want what days do you want to charge what time a day do all those things and you never think about range again you really don’t no well I think this is certainly another part of that
Journey to the transition to Electric uh with the Vans and the bikes and I think it’s really good to see everything electric this year having more of the bikes here and um these certainly look like very good bikes uh for somebody looking to make the transition and all I
Say to people is go and get a demo like be a skeptic write the most terrible things about us on Facebook but if you haven’t written one I don’t want to hear from you don’t want to hear you go on it first no no we understand that there’s a
Lot of resistance it doesn’t sound the same da d da but once you’ve ridden it that all goes out the window yeah and I think your um display riders today are uh stunt riders and ex Racers and they current races too Sean current races well you know Tom br a current you know
20-some Super Sport Rider he he was laughing about the srf he said if you ended this in a super bike race it would lead every race into turn one yeah now our top speed’s 200 we’re in a bit of trouble but we would he said even from
The back of the grid you’d be at the front of the grid by turn one cuz they’re so quick off the line so and that’s what give the people what they want Sean yep yep power thank you
We caught up with Tom Reynolds who fills us in on the Zero Electric Bike and we catch some of their display.
