Zero Motorcycles’ Lompico has moved beyond its shadowy teaser images. Design patents now provide the clearest view yet of the electric motorcycle’s complete form and its underlying mechanical package, revealing a model that shares its platform with Hero MotoCorp’s upcoming Vida VxZ. Zero has confirmed approximately 40 horsepower, while other powertrain details remain indications rather than final specifications.

Why the Hero connection matters

Zero first showed darkened images of the Lompico last November, presenting it as a statement of intent for its next generation of motorcycles. The relationship with Hero gives that project added significance. Hero MotoCorp is described as India’s largest motorcycle brand and, by some measures, the world’s highest-volume two-wheeled-vehicle manufacturer, including motorcycles and bicycles.

Hero has already been selected by Harley-Davidson to design and build the entry-level X440 for markets outside the United States. It has also been chosen for the upcoming Sprint, a small-displacement cruiser due to launch in the United States later in the year referenced by the article. Hero has invested $60 million in Zero since 2023, and that investment is identified as the basis for the two companies’ platform sharing.

The patent material indicates that the Lompico and Vida VxZ are mechanical twins beneath their different bodywork. They use the same wheels, brakes, forks, swingarm, battery, motor and steel trellis frame. The swingarm-mounted number-plate bracket is shared too, as are the TFT instrument panel, handlebars and control pods. The Vida VxZ had previously appeared in design registrations, although it had not yet been seen in final form when the article was published. Both motorcycles had also been teased during the previous year.

A shared platform, two very different designs

The Vida VxZ follows a familiar styling formula, with a sloping, V-shaped headlight and bodywork that resembles a conventional petrol-powered motorcycle. The Lompico takes a far more assertive route. Its bodywork is intended to read as one continuous form from front to rear, producing an unconventional but distinctive silhouette.

Three headlights define the front: a central LED unit and two vertical strips placed along the leading edges of the side panels. Those strips form part of a throughflow aerodynamic concept intended to channel air through the main bodywork. The vertical lighting theme continues at the rear, where tail lights sit on either side of an arched opening.

The high, horizontal bodywork lines may recall the Zero SR/S Intelligent Aero Prototype developed with Britain’s White Motorcycle Concepts in 2024. That WMC project explored the benefits of the company’s aerodynamic duct system. The Lompico also shares some visual similarities with a Pininfarina and WCM styling exercise, although that earlier design study was based on an internal-combustion motorcycle. These similarities do not establish a direct design connection.

What is known about the powertrain

Zero confirms an output of approximately 40 hp. The Lompico appears to use the company’s Z-Force 75-5 motor, which produces 48 hp in the Zero FX, paired with an apparent 8.8 kWh battery pack. The same motor and battery are expected to feature in the Vida VxZ, but neither that equipment package nor the Lompico’s final specifications should be treated as fully confirmed.

Production location has not been confirmed. It is considered logical that the Hero and Zero models could be built at the same factory in India, and shared production could potentially reduce the manufacturing costs associated with Zero’s US-built models. That remains a possibility, not an announced industrial plan. No launch date, price, range, wider performance figures or market availability has been confirmed here.

Lompico today, SF tomorrow?

The Lompico name comes from an area of Santa Cruz near Zero’s California base. The production motorcycle is expected to carry the name SF instead: Zero has trademarked SF, and the designation is described as reflecting a position between the company’s S and FX model lines.

Whether SF becomes the final name, the Lompico’s importance may extend beyond one model. Its patent-revealed design suggests that Zero is considering a much more distinctive visual and aerodynamic language for its next electric motorcycles. For now, the machine is best understood as a 40-hp, Hero-linked platform with a striking design—not yet a fully specified production motorcycle.