Honda teases its first full-size e-motorcycle with quick charging

Honda is making ready to announce its first electrical bike with quick charging, primarily based on the corporate shared on Instagram. The video reveals off the brand new e-motorcycle on check rides in Europe and teases the date, September 16, when Honda will presumably introduce it. Plans to develop Honda’s lineup of electrical bikes have been within the works since no less than 2022, when it will launch “10 or extra” e-motorcycles by 2025.

The brand new bike is beneath a wrap of black and white camouflage within the video, however that it shares a hanging resemblance to the Honda launched at EICMA 2024, a bike commerce present in Milan. On the time, Honda stated the boxy idea was designed to supply “efficiency equal to a mid-sized inside combustion engine (ICE) bike” and be appropriate with CCS2 fast chargers, an EV quick charging commonplace in Europe. It additionally has “a cruising vary of over 100km,” in keeping with Honda.

Leaning on quick charging is a method the corporate might tackle potential vary points on the bike. An electrical bike naturally provides much less room for batteries than electrical vehicles do. Honda’s video would not get into any of these nitty gritty particulars, so we’ll have to attend till September 16 to know for positive.

One factor that does appear sure is the e-motorcycle’s regional availability. Primarily based on the very fact the video was shared on Honda’s UK Instagram web page and particularly mentions it was “examined on European streets,” it appears extremely unlikely the bike shall be accessible exterior of Europe and the UK.