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Kymco has filed patents associated to its upcoming LiveWire S3, which it is going to manufacture in partnership with Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire. (Kymco/)

Again in December 2021 Harley-Davidson spun off LiveWire as a separate firm and introduced its plans for the modular Arrow electrical motorbike platform that might kind the premise of the S2 Del Mar and the newly launched S2 Mulholland. On the identical time the corporate revealed that Taiwan’s Kymco would companion on a scaled-down S3 model of the Arrow platform. Not too long ago a patent has emerged from Kymco exhibiting a motorbike based mostly on the LiveWire parts.

Kymco isn’t simply serving to out. The Taiwanese firm put $100 million into LiveWire, with an identical contribution from Harley-Davidson, when the corporate was was a separate entity. Whereas Harley nonetheless owns the lion’s share of LiveWire, Kymco took a 4 % stake, and its personal deliberate electrical bikes—the delayed RevoNEX and SuperNEX that had been first proven again in 2018 earlier than being reworked as 2022 ideas—are prone to borrow considerably from the joint improvement of the smaller LiveWire S3 fashions.

The Arrow chassis platform is the premise for the S2 Del Mar and S2 Mulholland LiveWire fashions. (LiveWire/)

The Arrow platform that underpins the present LiveWire S2 bikes is designed to be adaptable. Consistent with the most recent EV motorbike developments, it makes use of an aluminum battery case as its fundamental body construction, with detachable entrance and rear subframes that permit the identical heart part for use in a number of types of motorcycle. LiveWire additionally says the Arrow platform can be utilized with varied completely different motors and batteries, both air-cooled or liquid-cooled, to cowl a broad vary of efficiency and value factors.

The patent filed pertains to the situation of the ECU on the upcoming LiveWire S3. (Kymco/)

Whereas we’ve but to see the primary LiveWire S3 mannequin, the product portfolio launched when LiveWire was arrange as a separate entity in 2021 confirmed they’re going to be made in partnership with Kymco, “cutting down the Arrow structure to a platform of light-weight 2-wheelers.”

Kymco’s RevoNex idea bike. (Kymco/)

The brand new Kymco patent exhibits an Arrow-style chassis, motor, and swingarm, all below the silhouette of the unique RevoNEX idea bike from 2018. That’s prone to be a crimson herring—the unique RevoNEX had a totally completely different, typical chassis, and was outdated by a second idea in 2022 that modified not solely its model but additionally its mechanical structure. The brand new Kymco patent relates very particularly to particulars of the positioning of an IMU within the bike’s chassis, suggesting that the Arrow platform seen within the photos is really consultant of the under-skin structure of a future Kymco/LiveWire mannequin.

The LiveWire S2 Mulholland makes use of the Arrow platform. (LiveWire/)

Notable modifications embrace a totally completely different seat subframe (one of many modular components of the Arrow platform) that’s not like both the prevailing LiveWire S2 Del Mar or S2 Mulholland’s designs. Since that is the place the IMU that the patent pertains to is mounted, it’s doubtless the drawings are correct, exhibiting the underpinnings of an as-yet-unlaunched, Arrow-based Kymco mannequin.

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