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Zero Motorcycles

Zero Motorcycles is an American manufacturer of electric motorcycles and powertrains, founded in 2006 in Santa Cruz, California. It designs and builds street, dual-sport and off-road electric motorcycles across its S, DS, FX and X lines — including the SR/S, SR/F, DSR/X, FXE and XE — around a proprietary Z-Force electric powertrain and aircraft-grade aluminum frame. Its bikes run the Cypher operating system, which pairs with the Zero Motorcycles NextGen mobile app over Bluetooth and cellular telematics for ride data, remote diagnostics, over-the-air updates and performance customization, and with the Cypher Store, where owners purchase software upgrades that unlock additional power, top speed and features. Zero sells internationally through a dealer network and serves retail, fleet and authority/first-responder segments. Its connected-vehicle platform is consumer-facing only: Zero publishes no public developer program, API documentation, SDKs or machine-readable specification.

human only

Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Zero Motorcycles the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Zero Motorcycles scores 10.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

No API surface

Why this profile is thin

Zero ships a real connected-vehicle stack — the Cypher OS, the NextGen app and the Cypher Store paid-upgrade backend at api-cypherstore.zeromotorcycles.com — but that host answers every path, including a nonsense control path, with the same 351-byte "Welcome to Zeromotor" HTML page, and a 4,100-URL sitemap contains no developer, API or integration page anywhere.

This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Zero Motorcycles does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.

What we probed
  • https://api-cypherstore.zeromotorcycles.com/openapi.jsonHTTP 200
  • https://api-cypherstore.zeromotorcycles.com/zzz-control-nonsense-9f3HTTP 200
  • https://zeromotorcycles.com/developersHTTP 404
  • https://zeromotorcycles.com/.well-known/agent-card.jsonHTTP 404
  • https://zeromotorcycles.com/llms.txtHTTP 404

Checked 2026-08-05. If this is out of date, tell us on the provider's repo and we will re-run the profile.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 10.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Zero Motorcycles Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

Put this on your own site. The badge is drawn live from Zero Motorcycles's current Kin Score — paste it once and it updates itself every time the score is recomputed. It follows your visitor's light or dark setting, and it links back here so anyone who sees it can read the full breakdown.

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   title="Zero Motorcycles on API Evangelist — API profile and Kin Score">
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How we profile Zero Motorcycles

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Zero Motorcycles. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Zero Motorcycles Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Zero Motorcycles — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/zero-motorcycles · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Zero Motorcycles, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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