At the end of September 2022, Indian motorcycle manufacturing giant Hero MotoCorp made an electrifying announcement. It was making an investment of $60 million in California-based electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero Motorcycles, it said.
While Hero didn’t give many details at the time, we speculated that the OEM hoped to incorporate some of Zero’s technology into upcoming Hero electric models. Although Hero has significant experience at producing combustion-powered two-wheelers in both motorcycle and scooter formats, it had just released its first-ever electric two-wheeler earlier in 2022. Called the Vida V1, the scoot leveraged technological know-how garnered from Hero’s existing partnership with Taiwanese electric scooter and tech company Gogoro.
