Modern Buddy

Here is the January 2020 list of EPA certified road motorcycles. This is my edit of the database in which I have deleted many columns of highly technical pollution detail and left only the detail of interest to most folks here. Also, if you visit the EPA page and peruse the original database, you will discover that their list is much longer than my list because of many duplicate records which don't differ at all in my downsized version of the list. In one case, a particular Harley-Davidson model had thirteen records! In almost all cases, I got rid of all the duplicates. The exception was in the case of Ducati and Harley where the very same bike was listed with everything else being the same except there were two countries of manufacture. I thought that was worthy of note (and probably some heated discussion) so I left those in.

To bring this back to scootering - Genuine has the usual suspects in the database. No surprises there. One thing I did notice was the data for the Kymco Like 150i lists the horsepower at 10.2kw compared to 7.1kw for the Buddy 125. That's 44% more horsepower! That must be a kicky little scooter. I'll be angling for a test-ride on one of those in the future.

Enjoy perusing the database. I tried very hard to be diligent, but I did do the entire edit by hand so it's possible I may have erred. If you have any thoughts or if you discover any errors or omissions, please let me know.

If I am reading it right Genuine is importing the Royal Alloy/Grand Tourer 150 under the Chicago Scooter Company, LLC name?

scootERIK wrote:If I am reading it right Genuine is importing the Royal Alloy/Grand Tourer 150 under the Chicago Scooter Company, LLC name?

Good Catch, scootERIK! I didn't notice that at all. There's always something interesting hidden in these databases and I think you win the prize for finding the biggie in this edition. Dang!

Every year I think that Genuine will eventually drop the 2 strokes because of tightening EPA regulations, but they always pop back up. Still kinda want a RH50 to replace my old Zuma one day.

Somebody asked me why I hadn't posted the EPA Electric Motorcycles list, so here is the entire 2020 list:

Model Year Manufacturer Name Engine Family Name Issue Date
2020 American Lifan, Inc. LAMLCLIONE2W 19-Jun-2019
2020 Arcimoto Inc LARICLIONF01 5-Nov-2019
2020 CSC Motorcycles, LLC LCASCLIPOCSE 3-Jun-2019
2020 Cake 0 Emission AB LC0ECLIONKAL 12-Jul-2019
2020 DoohanUs, Inc. LDHUCLICOAAA 30-May-2019
2020 Energica Motor Company S.p.A. LENMCLIONEGO 12-Feb-2019
2020 Genuine Scooters, LLC LGSCCLIONNIU 20-Dec-2018
2020 Harley-Davidson Motor Company LHDXCLIONAAA 30-May-2019
2020 Mahindra Tractor Assembly Inc. d/b/a/ Mahindra GenZe LMGZCLION001 6-Sep-2019
2020 Piaggio Group Americas, Inc. LPVMCLIONCBE 27-Dec-2018
2020 VANDERHALL MOTOR WORKS INC LVMWCLIPO2MS 9-Oct-2019
2020 Westward Industries Ltd. LWWXCLIONAC3 3-Jun-2019
2020 Zero Motorcycles Inc. LZRMCLIONZF5 19-Aug-2019
2020 Zero Motorcycles Inc. LZRMCLIONZF7 19-Aug-2019

As you can see, Genuine is on there. Note the December 2018 date for the certification. They've clearly been planning this for a while.