Can-Am’s new electric motorcycles could be $4,000 more expensive starting January 20th

Earlier this week, Can-Am celebrated a major milestone. It is the return to two-wheeled motorcycles.

Now I know what you’re saying, we’ve already seen the bikes. We have already tested the bikes. What’s the deal with returns? As we discovered in our testing, the pre-production motorcycles are the first production motorcycles to roll off the company’s assembly line in Querétaro, Mexico. Bikes are for everyone, not just us journalists who demand free shrimp and pampered luxury.

No, these bikes are delivered to dealers so that the public, i.e. you, can finally get a glimpse of what these bikes are all about. Feel what electricity feels like when channeled through the magic of Can-Am.

But while everyone else in the room celebrates this fact, including Can-Am, I can’t help but do my best Debbie Downer and ask the question: Won’t these bikes be about $4,000 more expensive come January 20th? Is anyone willing to pay almost $20,000 for this?

Of course, I’m talking about Trump’s proposed tariffs. The president-elect recently declared that all products and goods from Canada and Mexico would immediately face a 25% import tariff once he is back in the big chair. “On January 20th, as one of my many first executive orders, I will sign all the necessary documents to impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada on ALL products entering the United States and the ridiculous open borders,” Trump said of the truth Social contribution.

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However, it is unclear whether he will agree to this, as both Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum have spoken by phone with the president-elect in recent weeks to discuss trade issues. However, Sheinbaum, for her part, told the press that if Trump implements his proposed tariffs, they will face tariffs of their own on goods entering Mexico from the United States.

This is the same thing the UK and Europe did during his last term, which impacted products like Harley-Davidson. But these new tariffs, when they go into effect, will necessarily include Can-Am’s new electric vehicles, which again are made in Mexico.

Some simple calculations reviewed by my team, who actually knows how math works, show how much more Americans may be spending on Can-Am’s new electric vehicles. For the Origin, the more expensive of the two models, the base price is currently $14,499. A 25% rate on the bike would be $3,624.75. For simplicity, let’s just call it $3,625. That means the Origin would cost about $18,125, minus taxes, title and destination. The less expensive of the two, the Pulse, would cost about $17,500 after tariff and again before taxes, title and destination.

So what you are seeing are almost $20,000 motorcycles coming onto the market and that, dear friends, would be a hard pill to swallow in the year of our dark lord, 2025. Especially when interest rates are still relatively high, there is no wage growth and daily prices have gone through the roof. Hopefully the parties involved can make a deal, I mean that’s his whole plan, right?

Because if that doesn’t happen, I fear Can-Am will go back to two wheels.