Some of us have wondered where exactly Harley got the expertise to build the Live Wire prototypes, well Harley didn't "get" the experience, they bought it, from Mission Motors.
Mission, as in the people who made THIS
Mission is by far the most advanced and technically superior e-bike R&D company...
Mission, as in the people who made THIS

Mission is by far the most advanced and technically superior e-bike R&D company...
By producing an EV, Harley-Davidson would attract a young, liberal, urban market that until now has been inaccessible to America's oldest and most conservative motorcycle company. Harley-Davidson executives in Milwaukee secretly contacted Mission Motors, in San Francisco, and contracted them to engineer an electric drivetrain.