No Demand for Electric Motorcycles – BMW Motorad CEO
BMW Motorrad’s CEO, Markus Flasch says that the company is not particularly keen in making electric motorcycles or dirtbikes. However, electric scooters are ongoing.
Speacking to US website Common Tread, Flasch laid out some of BMW Motorrad’s plans, including for their future superbikes.
“You can look forward to seeing something smaller than the 1000 cc [S 1000 RR]. But it’s a bit too early to talk about it.” However, the inline-four engine will stay at 1000cc for the S 1000 range i.e. S 1000 RR/M 1000 RR, S 1000 R/M 1000 R, S 1000 XR/M 1000 XR.
As such the smaller superbike in question could be from the F 900, or even the G 310 range.
Flasch does not want to follow his rivals Triumph and Ducati who have since dabbled into the motocross and enduro segment, as BMW Motorrad’s products are already covering many areas. “We are making this decision talking to our customers and talking to our dealer base and we ended up, for the moment, not going this route,” he told Courts.
Back to electric motorcycles, BMW will not make an electric motorcycle at the moment, as Flasch says customer response is behind that decision, too. Instead, they will continue with electric scooters, since the CE range is leading the 11 kW and above segment.
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