After years of teasing, it appears Honda is indeed almost ready to debut a full-sized electric motorcycle—but they’re still not sharing any really useful information.
The bike in question can be seen above, as exhibited at the 2025 Beijing International Motorcycle Exhibition, which ran April 10-13. Honda’s Motor Macau shared the image on their Instagram page, and didn’t really give any details on the machine. No details on power or range or anything else that matters. The press release they referred to in their post here did link to an official Honda PR release, but that also gave no details (although they did have pictures of a wild Pac-Man themed display. Apparently corporate wonks have more of a sense of fun in the Asian moto market).
The photos of the bike do give us some hints, though. First up, note the dual disc brake setup in the front. That definitely means sporty performance, or at least more sporty than Honda’s previous electric motorcycles, which were optimized for pizza delivery boys and postal workers, not urban hoons. The CBR500 had a single brake disc for years; it runs a dual disc setup now. It seems reasonable to expect the new EV to at least be on par with that bike’s performance, which is certainly adequate for a lot of fun, although far from a superbike or even a supersport.
We expect more photos and maybe even a full reveal on this fall’s show circuit. Photo: Honda
A USD fork and single-sided swingarm are also signals to sporting intentions. And with Honda promising 30 new electric motorcycles by 2030, which is less than five years away, surely we’re going to see at least some of those bikes intended for usage beyond urban delivery roles, and hopefully beyond city limits?
Honda has already released a couple of early concepts in this series; see our coverage below.
Stay tuned on this one. Honda’s move into EVs will potentially be the biggest shift in motorcycling since they introduced the CB750 in 1969. But then again, we thought it was a big deal when Harley-Davidson brought out the LiveWire, and that certainly hasn’t panned out as hoped. Honda is a lot bigger than H-D, with more resources to plan, produce and sustain the company through lean times, but a failed machine is still a failed machine, and Honda has their share of those too (remember the DN-01?). Even an impressive new 30-bike EV lineup will still need people to buy them, which has been LiveWire’s problem so far. Legislation requiring EVs in many overseas countries will probably help Honda succeed where Harley is failing, though.
