1978 Electric Harley

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A group of engineers built an electric Harley decades before the LiveWire was even a concept.

Harley’s brand-new LiveWire is the current hot button topic in the motorcycle world, stirring up plenty of controversy and praise at the same time. But in all fairness, it actually isn’t the first electric Harley motorcycle. Way back in 1978, an engineer from Transitron Electric Corporation built himself one in a fascinating story revisited by Cycle World.

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1978 Electric Harley

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