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How Zero Motorcycles builds the Tesla of two-wheelers in Silicon Valley
About 45 miles south of the Silicon Valley factory where Tesla Motors is building out the electric automobile industry one car at a time, Zero Motorcycles is undertaking a perhaps more difficult task.
John Armstrong assembles the ‘tank’ for a police model. He installs the switch gear, side lights and emblems, and bonds the tank together. (Photo credit: Vicki Thompson)
The company, based in Scotts Valley, is vying to establish itself as the dominant seller of electric motorcycles globally. Zero shipped about 1,300 of its bikes last year — an increase of about 30 percent from the year before. By comparison, sales of Tesla’s Model S increased more than eightfold to 22,477 units in 2013.
Read full article in the Silicon Valley Business Journal here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/04/30/how-zero-motorcycles-builds-the-tesla-of-two.html
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