[1970-01-01]

You have it backwards. Motorcycle riders are not going to swing over to electric at any time soon:

Bikers keep their rides for decades and

ICE motorcycles can last just as long and cars, if not longer, and

The price for entry on a new electric motorcycle is so far away from the price of ICE motorcycles it financially can not work for owners. And

There is little benefit to the environment to switch. Modern motorcycles have been sold with catalytic converters for decades, and they also get 40+ MPG.

[dharmab]

> There is little benefit to the environment to switch. Modern motorcycles have been sold with catalytic converters for decades, and they also get 40+ MPG.

Previous emissions standards for motorcycles were much lower than cars. To the point where a bike getting 50mpg and carrying one person output more pollution than a sedan getting 25mpg and carrying an entire family.

This has been fixed with Euro4's introduction for the 2017 model year (which is why so many bikes were redesigned that year with huge exhausts.)