The cynic in me wants to believe that it really separates this large, heavy motorcycle from "e-bikes", because reporting on some of this stuff tends to be really vauge and misleading.

We've had "e-scooter" crashes where the article will show a mobility scooter, but the public knows "e-scooter" as those things people stand up on and behave badly on (from their perspective). Without distinction, you're throwing the wrong vehicles under the bus (no pun intended).