Italian electric sportsbike manufacturer Energica has enlarged its retail presence in one of Europe’s strongest E-Bike markets, with Electric Motorcycles Nederland (EMN) as its importer and lead dealer there, having signed new agreements with four new business partners.
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| Having inaugurated its new 32,000 sq ft headquarters facility at Soliera near Modena last year, Energica has moved quickly to consolidate its international opportunities |
Along with Energica motorcycles, EMN provides important services for customers, like customised financing plans and a mobile workshop for a professional and prompt after sales service.
In addition, EMN is offering all Energica owners ‘free charge’ for four years through the Fastned fast-charge infrastructure network.
Energica has also finalised a new commercial agreement in Sweden and other markets with Energica motorcycles available in Marieholm, near Malmoe, based at E-MC Sweden AB. Through November 2016 the Swedish market was +80 percent in EV unit terms, with 11,913 machines registered in 11 months.
In December last year Energica received its sales license for the State of California, having already achieved U.S. homologation of its ‘Ego’ and ‘Eva’ models, and opened “Galleria Energica”, a San Francisco flagship store and a Redwood, California, service centre.
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| Energica’s ‘Eva’ (left) is a ‘streetfighter’ styled street bike with a permanent magnet AC (PMAC) oil cooled motor that produces 70kW (95 hp c.ca) of instantaneous power and a torque of 170 Nm. It is said to have a range up to 200km (ECO mode) and can reach a top speed of 200km/h in Sport mode. The ‘Ego’ is Energica’s sportbike model |
In another sign of its growing international reach, Energica entered the Israeli market in November, with the government approving its bikes for registration and Auto Electric appointed as importer.
Meanwhile, in other news from Energica in the United States, the company has become the only electric motorcycle company to join the CharIN E.V. Association, whose mission is to come up with a standard for electric vehicle charging and devise solutions for future charging systems.
The primary aims of CharIN E.V. are to develop and establish the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging battery-powered electric vehicles of all kind; to draw up requirements for the evolution of charging-related standards and develop a certification system for use by manufacturers implementing the CCS in their products and to promote the CCS standard worldwide.
Right from the start Energica believed and invested in the Combined Charging System (CCS) as standard - today Energica is the only electric motorcycle manufacturer to include in its products the DC Fast Charging technology based on CCS Combo.
“In the last years, the auto industry unveiled several new electric models, therefore it is necessary to affirm the CCS system as standard and to implement the infrastructure’s network in all countries”, says Giampiero Testoni, CTO Energica Motor Company S.p.A.
“It’s important to generate an influential critical mass to standardise the CCS system and affirm it worldwide“.
