Back in February, 2022, we got our first glimpse at the immediate future of Harley-Davidson's LiveWire EV brand. While the LiveWire One was widely regarded as a solid step forward in bringing more combustion-familiar riders over to the electric side, no single bike can be all things to all riders. On Harley’s February 8, 2022 earnings call, CEO Jochen Zeitz (who is also the current acting CEO of LiveWire EV) officially said that LiveWire’s first middleweight electric bike would be revealed as soon as Q2 of 2022.
Fast-forward to May 2, 2022, and sure enough LiveWire EV gave everyone the tiniest peek at what it will soon be revealing in full. In February, we learned that the first of LiveWire EV’s S2 bikes (S2 are the middleweights) would be called Del Mar—a name that’s probably extremely familiar if you’re from the San Diego area and/or are up on your horse racing history.