Zero Project Ventura: 75 Miles and 93 Are Not One Claim

Project Ventura is the lightweight street motorcycle Zero showed at EICMA on 3 November 2026. Gear Patrol's 4 November briefing calls it Zero's approachable new street moto. It is a supermoto-shaped motorcycle with 17-inch wheels and road tires, not a Class 1, 2, or 3 bicycle. The pages that name a power figure say more than 20 kW. Twenty kilowatts is 26.8 horsepower. "Over" means the peak is over 26.8, not a printed 27 you can put on a dyno sheet. Electrek pairs a sustained 65 mph, which it also writes as 105 km/h, with a momentary 81 mph, which it writes as 130 km/h. Motorcycle News writes the top as around 80 mph. One hundred thirty kilometers an hour is 80.8 mph. Eighty and 81 are two roundings of 130, not two tests.

75 miles is not 150 kilometers

One hundred fifty kilometers is 93.2 miles. Electrek, Motorcycle News, Visordown, and thepack.news are in that cluster: about 93 miles, or 150 km, called a real-world estimate. Gear Patrol, TechRadar, and EVXL print 75 miles. Seventy-five miles is 121 kilometers. Ninety-three minus 75 is 18 miles. That is not a rounding of one sentence, and it is not miles versus kilometers. EVXL says the 75 is what Zero gave, and that Motorcycle News was told 93. Use 75 when you mean the 75-mile sentence. Use 93 when you mean the 150 km sentence. Do not publish 84.

There is no battery capacity on these pages. A range without watt-hours is a sentence, not a watt-hour per mile.

You cannot divide a pack that was not printed

Electrek says the range is hard to use because the capacity was not published. Motorcycle News says the same about capacity and charge time. thepack.news says Zero has not released battery capacity, charging time, or price. EVXL prints the XE's sheet as the bike underneath: 4.3 kWh, 223 pounds, a 15.5 kW motor, 60 mph, and 65 miles at a steady 31 mph, at $6,295. Four thousand three hundred watt-hours divided by 75 miles is 57. Divided by 93 it is 46. Those quotients are what the XE's tank would cost per mile. They are not Ventura's, because Ventura's pack was not the number in the division. thepack calls Ventura a new model, not a reworked existing one. EVXL calls it the XE platform with 17-inch wheels and a new powertrain. Both can be true. Neither one moves 4.3 kWh onto the Ventura.

Without watt-hours, "more than 20 kW" has no minutes. A 20 kW hold empties a pack in watt-hours divided by 20,000 watts. The numerator is missing. The SR/F table on this site is 111 hp and 17.3 kWh. Twenty kilowatts is 26.8 hp. One hundred eleven divided by 26.8 is 4.1, if Ventura's peak were exactly 20 kW. The word on the show pages is over, so the multiple is smaller than 4.1. It is still not the same motorcycle. The LiveWire Del Mar is the other street bike already filed here, with a pack those pages did print.

Under $8,000 is not under £8,000

Electrek's ceiling is a targeted price of less than $8,000. Motorcycle News's ceiling is under £8,000. TechRadar turns the dollar rumor into about £5,960. Buck City Biker turns £8,000 into about €9,591 and says the EU price is not confirmed. Five thousand nine hundred sixty pounds and eight thousand pounds are not one target. Eight thousand dollars and eight thousand pounds are not one target. None of them is a printed MSRP. Summer 2027 is the date they share. A target is not a cart.

A1 is a license. Twenty kilowatts is a peak.

Motorcycle News says the bike is for A1 licence holders from 17, and that the nominal power is not confirmed. thepack says it is classed for the A1 licence. A European A1 continuous cap is 11 kW. Twenty divided by 11 is 1.8, so a peak over 20 kW is at least 1.8 times that cap. A peak is not the continuous number the license uses. MCN left the nominal blank on purpose. Do not fill it in. Eighty-one miles an hour is not a bicycle path. The class chart still wants pedals and a motor under 750 watts. This machine has a chain to the rear wheel and no pedals. The NMAX E is the other new machine at the same show, and that one at least printed 3.5 kWh.

The sustained and momentary speeds are one pair, rounded twice. Eighty-one minus 65 is 16 mph. One hundred thirty minus 105 is 25 km/h. Sixteen times 1.609 is 25.7, so the 16 mph gap and the 25 km/h gap are the same burst, not two bursts. The bike can be asked to hold 65. The 81 is the short one. Electrek's point stands: a momentary highway speed is not a highway range. There is still no pack to test that against.

No public ride film

This desk did not find a public ride video of Project Ventura. The photographs are static, including the one on this page. Zero's own channel, as of this writing, does not have a Ventura loop in the results this search returned. Do not treat a still of a red shock and a 17-inch wheel as a range test. ABS, two-up seating, and an onboard Level 2 charger are the equipment the show stories repeat. A Dutch report the same week puts Level 3 DC fast charging on Zero's Street and Dual Sport models in 2027. It does not put that charger on Ventura. Do not add it.

Who it is for

Wait for a watt-hour and a price if the job is a commuter you can compare with the SR/F. The numbers that exist are a peak over 20 kW, a 65 mph hold, a short 81 mph, 17-inch street wheels, and a range sentence that is either 75 miles or 93, depending on which desk you open. Skip it if you needed a bicycle. Skip it if you needed the XE's $6,295 dirt bike and you were reading Ventura's bodywork as that invoice. This desk did not ride it.