Tariffs, it's everyone's favorite word they just learned of this year. Most folks don't understand how they work, but they're basically a secondary tax on you, the consumer, that's passed along by the manufacturer due to a tariff being imposed on a country where you got parts or materials from.
In basic math terms, if you bought something last year for $12, and a tariff was imposed on said product's country of origin, then that same one will cost you $20 now after the tariff. That's how all this works. It's not, in fact, paid by the tariffed country, as many would have you believe.
And because we live in a global economy, one where manufacturers acquire parts and materials from outside the country of manufacturing, everything is affected by both threatened or enacted tariffs. The powersports industry is no different. But to hedge against those tariffs, electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero Motorcycles is hoping to save you a little cash by offering pre-tariff price reservations on its upcoming XE and XB dirt bikes.
