World’s largest EV maker Yadea shows off new e-motos, e-scooters at EICMA
We recently caught up with Yadea, the most prolific manufacturer of electric vehicles in the world, to see the company’s new products at the EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show.
To join us as we explore the various models at Yadea’s booth, check out the video below. Or keep reading for even more detail!
Front and center at Yadea’s booth were the brand’s flagship electric motorcycles. While Yadea is perhaps best known for its wide range of electric scooters, these electric motorcycle models showcase the company’s design chops and ability to head further up market while breaking through into newer and more powerful product segments.
Yadea Keeness electric motorcycle
The smaller of the two bikes is known as the Yadea Keeness, and it comes with modest specs including a 100 km/h (60 mph) top speed, an 11 kW peak-rated motor, and pair of removable batteries totaling 4.6 kWh of stored capacity.
That slots it right into the commuter segment of the market, though the stunt rider that snagged a Keeness at Yadea’s test ride booth outdoors showed off that you can still get pretty wild with a commuter e-moto! See what I mean in the video above.
Yadea Kemper electric motorcycle
Even more impressive than the Keeness was a larger electric motorcycle known as the Yadea Kemper. While the bike is certainly more aggressive-looking than it probably deserves to be, the specs are still appropriate for a more powerful commuter bike that can do some fun riding on the weekends.
The more potent 23 kW motor is certainly going to offer more thrilling acceleration, and it also helps boost that speed up to 160 km/h (100 mph). The relatively small battery pack of 6.4 kWh though means that the bike is here for a good time, not a long time. Even so, Yadea has definitely showcased that even in a commuter-oriented motorcycle, you can still have enough speed and power for some spirited riding – however long it may last.
Yadea Fierider electric scooter
But of course Yadea is best known for its wide range of electric scooters. Here, the company did not disappoint.
There we several models on display at the show, including perhaps my own favorite, the new Fierider. It’s got a swingarm-mounted water-cooled 11 kW peak-rated motor, which gives extra room in the underseat area for storage. The scooter can hit a top speed of 100 km/h (62 mph) and has around 3.9 kWh of battery capacity across a pair of removable packs.
The scooter has two European specific colorways that were just introduced for the EICMA show, which you can see in the video above.
A slightly toned down version of the Fierider is the Ezeego offers similar looking outward design, but with a smaller motor mounted in the rear wheel, a smaller battery, and a top speed of just 45 km/h (28 mph).
While that scooter would be ideal for crowded urban areas where you just don’t have the room to travel very quickly, the Fierider is better suited for a combination of urban and suburban riding, especially in areas with larger roads that allow you to take advance of its 62 mph top speed.
Yadea also showed off its standing electric scooters, which along with its electric bicycles, have so far made the largest penetration into the North American market.
The company’s leading line of electric scooters, the Elite series, all share full suspension and surprisingly good performance specs for such small EVs.
The Yadea Elite Artist is the smallest and lightest of the line, though has proven popular as a commuter scooter for students and others looking for a lightweight runabout. A similar-looking design can be seen in both the Yadea Elite Max and Yadea Elite Prime, which offer progressively larger and more powerful variants.
I’ve personally spent a week testing out the Yadea Elite Prime and can vouch for how powerful its peak 1,500-watt motor feels, easily allowing me to wheelie the scooter even when I don’t intend to. For that reason, I often keep it under its highest power rating. But for those that want serious fun, the highest power rating is happy to deliver the thrills.
Last but not least, I was able to check out Yadea’s cute tricycle products. The CM-6 is a fun three-seater that would be ideal for a parent traveling around with two smaller children on the rear bench. There’s also a covered design with a rigid canopy and rain shield that provides better coverage.
The smaller tricycle is more of a cutesy mobility scooter, and here’s to hoping I won’t need something like this for a long, long time. But at least I now know that there are fun options out there that beat a Rascal scooter!
Having visited one of Yadea’s factories in the past, this was a fun chance to see even more of the products that the company makes.
It seems that each year, the world’s largest EV company rolls out interesting new products and so I’ll be excited to learn what next year has in store for us as well!
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Germany’s largest offshore wind farm under construction, EnBW’s He Dreiht, just hit a big milestone: The first enormous turbine is now up in the North Sea.
He Dreiht – which means “it spins” in Low German – is using Vestas’s massive 15 megawatt (MW) turbines, the first project in the world to install them. Just one spin of one of the rotors can generate enough electricity to power four households for an entire day.
When it’s finished, He Dreiht will have 64 mega turbines cranking out 960 megawatts (MW) of clean power – enough to supply around 1.1 million homes. And it’s being built without any government subsidies.
EnBW, one of Germany’s major energy companies, has been working in offshore wind for more than 15 years, but He Dreiht is their biggest project yet. “It will play a key role in helping us to significantly grow our renewable energy output from 6.6 GW to over 10 GW by 2030,” said Michael Class, who heads up EnBW’s generation portfolio development.
The project is a win for Vestas, too. “With the installation of the first V236-15.0 MW, we have reached an important milestone for both the He Dreiht project and our offshore ramp-up, which helps Germany build a more secure, affordable, and sustainable energy system,” said Nils de Baar, president of Vestas Northern & Central Europe.
He Dreiht is located about 85 kilometers (53 miles) northwest of Borkum and 110 kilometers (68 miles) west of Helgoland. At peak times, more than 500 workers will be out at sea building the farm, using a fleet of more than 60 ships. EnBW’s offshore team in Hamburg is running the show.
The installation process is a major operation. The 64 foundations were already set in the seabed last year. Parts for the turbines are loaded onto the installation vessel Wind Orca in Esbjerg, Denmark, and shipped out in a 12-hour journey to the construction site. From there, the turbines are lifted into place. Meanwhile, crews are also working on internal wind farm cabling.
A partner consortium made up of Allianz Capital Partners, AIP, and Norges Bank Investment Management owns 49.9% of the shares in He Dreiht.
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Tesla has released a quick update about its Tesla Semi factory in Nevada. It says that it is on track for volume production of the electric semi truck in 2026.
The Tesla Semi was first scheduled to go into production in 2019, but it has faced numerous delays.
Now, it appears that there is finally some momentum to bring it to volume production.
For the last two years, Tesla has been working to build a new factory next to Gigafactory Nevada, where it builds the battery packs and drive units for most of its electric vehicles built in North America.
Today, Tesla released a “progress update on the factory, confirming that it finished building and it’s now working on deploying the production lines:
Tesla had previously mentioned aiming for volume production by 2025, but it is now only talking about starting production toward the end of the year and ramping up next year.
The automaker reiterated its planned production capacity of 50,000 units.
We recently reported that an early Tesla Semi customer, Ryder, stated that the electric truck program is experiencing more delays and a price increase described as “dramatic.”
They now expect to take deliveries of their first trucks later in 2026 and said that the price has increased “dramatically,” leading them to scale back their pilot program from 42 to 18 Tesla Semi trucks.
When originally unveiling the Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker mentioned prices of $150,000 for a 300-mile range truck and $180,000 for the 500-mile version. Tesla also took orders for a “Founder’s Series Semi” at $200,000.
However, Tesla didn’t update the prices when launching the “production version” of the truck in late 2022. Price increases have been speculated, but the company has never confirmed them.
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Vietnamese solar panel maker Boviet Solar just opened the doors to its first US factory — a huge new PV module plant in Greenville, North Carolina.
The company dropped $294 million into the state-of-the-art facility, which will pump out Boviet’s Gamma Series monofacial and Vega Series bifacial solar panels. They’re using advanced PERC and N-Type solar cell tech, which basically means these panels are built to deliver higher efficiency and better performance across residential, commercial, industrial, and utility-scale projects.
The Greenville factory’s first phase is now online with an annual PV module output capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). For Phase 2, which is scheduled to come online in the second half of 2026, Boviet will invest another $100 million to add 600,000 square feet and ramp up to another 2 GW. It will make high-efficiency solar cells.
Once both phases are complete, Boviet’s campus will cover more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing and R&D space. It’s one of the biggest clean energy manufacturing projects North Carolina has ever seen.
The jobs impact is significant, too. The first phase will create 460 skilled local jobs. Phase 2 is expected to add another 908, bringing the total to over 1,300 direct jobs, plus nearly 2,000 more indirect jobs across the region. That’s good news for Pitt County’s economy, real estate market, and workforce training programs.
“This facility is not just creating jobs, but creating opportunity, innovation, and a stronger foundation for eastern North Carolina,” said Senator Kandie Smith. Governor Josh Stein added that Boviet Solar’s move shows how North Carolina is leading the way in clean energy growth.
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