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Harley Davidson's first electric motorcycle, Project Livewire
(Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

NEW YORK - Harley-Davidson have just unveiled an electric motorcycle called Project Livewire. Did the foundations of skyscrapers shake to the sound of rolling thunder? Did anxious fathers rush to lock up their daughters? Did the cops hurry to their newly acquired armoured cars?

No, no and no, they did not.

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.