2022年8月6日

2022美国东部时间上午9时至2016年,阿尔塔汽车红移MX创造了历史,成为第一个电动摩托车获得榜首的AMA EnduroCross赛车事件(通过污垢骑士)。红移MX也获得了2017年的日内瓦Supercross,克服艰难险阻燃气摩托车。荣耀只是不断,Alta汽车在雷诺Endurocross留下了另一个印象。很明显,Alta汽车试图证明一个点;在业务的电动摩托车一样好,如果不是更好,比燃气摩托车。但一波又一波的形成在地平线上乌云,和阿尔塔后不久汽车越野赛世界一些受到关注,其打包和关闭商店。“我们的诚挚的感谢所有那些相信阿尔塔多年来”,该公司表示在告别消息10月18日,2018年。从那时起,我们一直没有收到Alta马达。当然,这引出了一个问题——为什么阿尔塔汽车失败?它跑出资金BreizhAtao /在上面当阿尔塔汽车是新生事物,它2014年募集资金达820万美元——这是当它被称为BRD摩托车。 By 2017, Alta Motors had fundraised $27 million to expand its production of electric motorcycles. Everything was going according to plan considering that Alta Motors sold 1,000 electric motorcycles in 2018 and it was scheduled to deliver 300 more units the same year (as reported by Electrek ). But behind the scenes, Alta Motors was struggling to stay afloat due to cash flow issues, and it was searching for more investors to finance its operations. Like most startups, Alta Motors failed to secure enough funding to sustain its manufacturing operations and it eventually closed down. By the time Alta Motors was winding down, it had secured about $45 million of capital funding (via TechCrunch ), but that wasn't enough to save it. A big deal falls through matsiukpavel/Shutterstock When Alta Motors was looking for investors to jump on board, it just happened that Harley Davidson was planning to produce electric motorcycles. As a result, a "scratch my back, I scratch yours" opportunity presented itself — Harley-Davidson and Alta Motors struck a deal in March 2018. According to Reuters , Harley Davidson was going to invest in Alta Motors in exchange for Alta to develop electric motorcycles for it. Even though Harley Davidson didn't divulge the financial details of the deal with Alta, it had separately pledged to invest $25 to $50 million every year in electric motorcycle technology. However, just six months after Harley-Davidson invested in Alta Motors, it reportedly pulled out of the deal . One week after the deal was supposedly scrapped, Harley-Davidson revealed plans to open its electric motorcycle research facility in Silicon Valley (via Auto Evolution ). Unfortunately, Alta Motors couldn't find another investor on time, and it closed down a few weeks later. Harley Davidson eventually released its electric motorcycle and we reviewed it . It's difficult to sell electric motorcycles VGstockstudio/Shutterstock As reported by the New York Times , fewer Americans were buying motorcycles after the 2008 recession. Even Harley-Davidson, the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the U.S., was experiencing a sales decline in the domestic market (via Reuters ). Besides Alta Motors, other electric motorcycle brands such as Polaris and Arc Vector have quietly disappeared from the domestic market in the previous decade. Not to forget, Harley-Davidson's electric motorcycle, the LiveWire, was a flop, and it's one of the reasons its CEO resigned (via Business Insider ). According to John McInnis , a former employee at Alta Motors who is now working for Harley Davidson, the biggest obstacle to electric motorcycle adoption is "cultural aspect," since the older generations favor gasoline vehicles. It could be a while before electric motorcycles become mainstream, but electric bicycles have become more popular –- and even automakers such as Ford have ventured into the e-bike business. As for Alta Motors, we think it's not coming back considering that the company that bought its intellectual property ( BRP ) has no interest in reviving it. Recommended