{"id":97923,"date":"2014-09-02T20:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T03:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97923"},"modified":"2014-09-02T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T03:25:50","slug":"heres-why-harley-davidson-wont-mass-produce-an-electric-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=97923","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Harley-Davidson Won&#8217;t Mass-Produce an Electric Motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG\u00a0\u00a0) introduced the\u00a0liquid-cooled V-Rod in 2001, purists were aghast the bike maker was going over to the dark side with a racing-style bike, rather than staying with its big cruisers &#8212; though the bike eventually became a big seller for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now the iconic bike maker has unveiled a new prototype motorcycle that once again has avid Harley riders&#8217; leather in a bunch. Why? Because it&#8217;s an electric motorcycle\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2014\/09\/01\/heres-why-harley-davidson-wont-mass-produce-an-ele.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG\u00a0\u00a0) introduced the\u00a0liquid-cooled V-Rod in 2001, purists were aghast the bike maker was going over to the dark side with a racing-style bike, rather than staying with its big cruisers &#8212; though the bike eventually became a big seller for them. Now the iconic bike maker has unveiled a new prototype motorcycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motorcycle","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97924,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923\/revisions\/97924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}