If you have around $12,000 to blow on a new way to scoot around town, then I’ve got some good news. Zero Motorcycles has a new model that, to be perfectly honest, has me drooling on my keyboard.

Zero’s new 2022 FXE expands on the company’s expanding lineup of electric motorcycles with design cues the company says are taken from the world of consumer tech thanks to designers at San Francisco-based firm HUGE Design, which has collaborated with companies like GoPro and Seagate. If gadgets are your jam, you’ll likely see design similarities to, say, HP’s Z3700 wireless mouse. Motorcycle enthusiasts will see inspiration from the Ducati Hypermotard or Husquavarna’s Vitpilen 401. Whatever the FXE reminds you of, it looks great.

Beyond its sleek industrial stance, the FXE packs Zero’s 75-5 air-cooled, brushless electric motor capable of producing 46 HP and 78 foot-pounds of torque—plenty of power to get you from here to there while scaring you a little bit. The 7.2 kWh Li-ion battery can carry you around 100 miles on a single charge, according to Zero, provided you’re just zipping around the city. (Highway riding at higher speeds is going to shorten that range.) That’s more than twice the range of the 2021 Zero FX.

You’ll also find LED lights all around the FXE, and a 5-inch TFT touch display where the gauges go on a gas-powered machine. The bike is controlled by Zero’s Cypher II operating system, which connects to your phone via Bluetooth, where you can control all the bike’s many settings—everything from top speed to battery management to long-term storage settings—from the Zero app.

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