The Biggest E2W Listing Looms
India-based Ola Electric is coming with an IPO. We take a look at how the previously listed E2W manufacturers have done across the world. None seems to be thriving.
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Breaking the ICE...
As ICE motorcycles embrace electronics, sensors, and rider-aids, it is becoming easier for new riders to handle speed. The various automatic transmissions entering the market further dumb down motorcycles. The motorcycling world may not realise but they are taking ICE closer to EVs
BodaBodas Part Deux
With more highly populated African countries enhancing power generation and cleaning up their grids, electric mobility is finding a natural fit against high-cost oil. The BodaBodas open a huge market, potentially worth USD 7.5 bn
Electrifying the BodaBodas
Often, in the haste to go electric, we force-fit electric mobility to the ecosystem. However, it should be the other way around, and the ecosystem should dictate the suitability of electric mobility. Once we do things the right way, Africa emerges as an unexpected shining star for E2Ws
Electrifying Big Motorcycles
The incumbents are reluctant and everyone else is not getting anywhere with large lifestyle electric motorcycles? What makes the equation so impossible? Is it just technology challenges compounded by half-hearted efforts or are we trying to force fit things before the core technology matures?
Lifestyle Motorcycle Brands shy away from Electrification
Freedom on two-wheels does not translate well beyond a certain motor power and battery capacity thresholds when it comes to electric. (Un)Surprisingly, large electric motorcycles are slower, heavier, and compromised
The Core Fundamentals of E2Ws
In a world where riders have been trained by ICE machines, over a century, it is difficult to make a sudden switch to E2Ws. With most established incumbents still treating going-electric with caution, we wonder if there is space for E2Ws in the world?