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Introducing the InsightEV Weekender

Greetings, this is your editor. You can view my LinkedIn profile here. This was a special week as InsightEV went premium....

April 5, 2025

Wk 13 2025: Letter from the Editor; InsightEV Goes Premium

The Japanese-Four think Electric is just an Option. While many in the world are entirely committing to EVs, and it is...

March 28, 2025

Wk 12 2025 – Zeno is here with a Global Motorcycle; Niu is Back on Track; The World this Week

Africa is fascinating: sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to the east, to Nigeria, Benin, and Togo to the...

March 21, 2025

Wk 11 2025 – Europe Matters? We Ride with Colibri; and Around the World this week

This week was all about Europe. In our Thursday long-format analysis, we looked at how Europe, once considered an automotive...

March 14, 2025

Wk 10 2025 – India’s Ultraviolette Wants Mass-Market; Vietnam’s Nuen Moto has a Great Looking Mid-Size; Vmoto Revenue Problems

While top-end electric motorcycle manufacturers - Livewire, Energica, Damon - are limping badly, the mid-size electric sports motorcycle segment is...

March 7, 2025
KTM

Wk 9 2025 – Only the Chinese Thrive; KTM Gets Nod for Restructuring

Yadea started life as a manufacturer of diminutive electric mopeds. They still sell many of them, but then they also...

February 28, 2025

Wk 8 2025 – Talking to Marko Lehtimaki of Donut Lab; Damon’s Financials are Hogwash; Indonesian Startups wake-up

The Verge Motorcycle is dramatic even before you read the performance numbers or get a leg over it. There is...

February 21, 2025

Wk 7 2025 – Honda and Yamaha dump SBMC; Gogoro Results are bad; Ola Electric’s are worse

The European market is highly fragmented, with about two million units being contested by 1500 brands. Now, an obnoxiously high...

February 14, 2025

Wk 6 2025 – We Talk to Dust Moto; Livewire and Vmoto Report Dismal Numbers; Ola Fakes Tech; Hero Reshapes Top-Deck

...and thank god for that. Dust Moto looks at motocross from a lifestyle lens. It doesn't want to go low -...

February 7, 2025

Wk 5 2025 – Does Honda have a Strategy for India?

We start this newsletter with some doodling that we did in our editorial room yesterday. We were trying to make...

January 30, 2025

Wk 4 2025 – Talking to Terra Bikes; Hyundai-TVS Surprises Everyone

Ever watched those cooking in nature videos on YouTube? A man skillfully prepares some meat by a flowing stream, cooking...

January 23, 2025

Yamaha’s Plans; Livewire’s S2 Alpinsta; UBCO is Gone

Last Thursday, we looked at Yamaha and tried to make sense of what the second most important Japanese brand is...

January 20, 2025

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