The Best Electric Motorcycles In The World

You know that half-second after an electric motorcycle pulls away from a stoplight and there’s just… nothing? No downshift, no throttle blip, just torque hitting your spine while the guy next to you is still finding second gear.

That’s not a party trick anymore.

Lightning claims 244 horsepower for the LS-218, a bike named for the land speed record it set above 218 mph. Verge quotes up to 370 miles from the big battery in its TS Pro. And a genuine motorcycle, not a moped in disguise, now starts at $6,495.

Here’s the part a spec sheet will never tell you: a good number of the bikes on other lists cannot actually be bought. The last two years have thinned this business out. Makers have gone into insolvency, been rescued by investors, capped their production runs, or quietly stopped taking orders while their websites stayed up.

So we asked a different first question. Not how fast it goes. Whether you can order one and expect it to arrive.

Here are the 16 electric motorcycles worth your money, and the one we’d put our own money on.

A note on the numbers: every price below is the manufacturer’s current list price, before destination, tax or incentives, and every figure comes from the maker’s own page or the outlet that reported it. Where a maker publishes nothing, we say so instead of borrowing someone else’s estimate.

The 16 best electric motorcycles you can buy right now

As a bonus, check the upcoming electric motorbike we’re still waiting on after the list.

1. Zero SR/F: The performance bike you can actually order

Every other fast bike on this list asks you for something before it asks you for money. A year in a queue. A leap of faith about a rescue deal. A spec sheet nobody will confirm. The Zero SR/F asks for $18,495 and then sends you a motorcycle.

The numbers stand up without the argument. Zero’s Z-Force 75-10 motor makes 111 horsepower and 140 lb-ft of torque, the SR/F runs to 124 mph, and the 17.3 kWh pack is good for 176 miles of city riding or 117 miles of high-speed highway commuting. The maturity shows in the boring places: Bosch stability control, a 5-inch dash you can read in direct sun, over-the-air updates that arrive without a dealer visit.

Zero has had a loud couple of years, and you should hear it from us rather than from a forum. The company moved its global headquarters from California to the Netherlands in 2025, its majority shareholder committed another $50 million alongside that move, and longtime chief executive Sam Paschel left in November 2025 amid layoffs. North American retail sales were up 89% year over year in 2025, and the SR/F is still sold in both the US and the EU. That is not the shape of a company winding down.

The honest drawback is exactly that noise. You’re buying into a business that has just restructured and changed its leader, on a machine you expect someone to service years from now. We think the trade is worth making, because the alternative at this level is waiting. Ask your dealer about parts lead times before you sign anything.

Price	From $18,495
Engine power	83 kW - 111 hp
Top speed	200 km/h - 124 mph
Acceleration	Unspecified by Zero
Range	283 km - 176 miles (city) / 188 km - 117 miles (highway)
Website	zeromotorcycles.com

2. Verge TS Pro: The most ambitious engineering here, if you can wait a year

Few electric motorcycles make you stop and stare. The Verge TS Pro manages it twice, once for the way it looks and again when you go looking for the chain, the belt and the hub at the center of that rear wheel. None of them is there.

Verge’s signature is its patented rim motor: the drive sits inside the rear wheel itself, a hollow ring that frees up the frame and gives the bike its silhouette. The figures keep pace with the styling, at 137 horsepower and a colossal 737 lb-ft of torque, 124 mph, and 3.5 seconds to 62 mph. The standard 20.2 kWh battery is rated at 217 miles, and the large 33.3 kWh pack claims 370 miles.

Understand what you’re joining rather than what you’re buying. Production for this model year is capped at 350 units, and an order placed today queues for delivery in the last quarter of 2026, or a year later again outside the US and Europe. Verge has reported losses of roughly €9 million in 2023 and €10 million in 2024. You deserve those numbers before you put a deposit on a bike arriving a year from now. That is why the TS Pro is second here and not first.

Price	From $29,900 ($34,900 with the large battery)
Engine power	100 kW - 137 hp
Top speed	200 km/h - 124 mph
Acceleration	0-100 km/h - 0-62 mph: 3.5 sec
Range	350 km - 217 miles (up to 370 miles, large battery)
Website	vergemotorcycles.com

3. Energica Experia: Best electric motorcycle for touring

When anyone brings up electric motorcycles, it’s easy to picture a dead battery cutting the fun short. Squeezing large, heavy packs into a small frame kept genuine touring bikes off the table for years.

The Experia is the bike that solved it. Energica quotes 420 km (261 miles) of city riding on a charge, 256 km (160 miles) combined, and 208 km (130 miles) once you settle into extra-urban speeds. Read all three, because the spread is the honest picture of what a touring day looks like. Three charging methods and a set of panniers on the Launch Edition make it the one bike here built for a week away rather than a commute.

The company history is the caveat, and it’s a recent one. Energica was forced into insolvency in October 2024 and rescued by a group of Singapore-based investors the following year. For a buyer the part that counts is simpler: the configurator is open again and the Experia is back in production. That is why it keeps its place on this list rather than a footnote at the bottom. Call a dealer about servicing before you commit, because a rescued maker’s parts network is the part that takes longest to come back.

Price	From $23,750 ($25,880 Launch Edition)
Engine power	75 kW - 102 hp
Top speed	180 km/h - 112 mph
Acceleration	0-100 km/h - 0-62 mph: 3.5 sec
Range	420 km - 261 miles (city) / 256 km - 160 miles (combined)
Website	energicamotor.com

4. Can-Am Pulse: The one that isn’t a startup

Buying an electric motorcycle from a startup means buying a bike and a bet. The Pulse comes from BRP, the people behind Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo, and the practical argument for it is boring and important: there is a dealer network behind it, and it was there last year too.

For 2026 the Pulse starts at $10,999, with the Premium trim at $12,999, down from $13,999. You get 47 horsepower and 53 lb-ft of instant torque, 60 mph in 3.8 seconds, and a 10.25-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and over-the-air updates.

The specification deserves honesty, because the internet keeps flattering it. BRP’s own sheet puts combined range at 80 miles, not the 100 city miles that circulates, and caps top speed at 80 mph to protect the battery. Eighty miles combined is a commute and an errand, not a Sunday in the hills, and you should buy it knowing which of those you want.

Price	From $10,999 ($12,999 for the Premium ‘73)
Engine power	35 kW - 47 hp
Top speed	129 km/h - 80 mph
Acceleration	0-60 mph: 3.8 sec
Range	129 km - 80 miles (combined, WMTC)
Website	can-am.brp.com

5. BMW CE 04: Best premium electric motorbike

The CE 04 looks like a prop from a film someone set in 2050, and it has been on sale long enough that BMW dealers now service it like any other machine in the range. In this field, that combination is rare enough to be the whole argument.

It is a scooter in layout rather than a motorcycle, with a long flat bench, a step-through deck and a storage compartment that swallows a full-face helmet. BMW quotes 42 horsepower, 75 mph, and 2.6 seconds from rest to 50 km/h. That last measure is the one BMW publishes, and there is no official 0-60 time. Range is 130 km, about 81 miles, on the WMTC cycle.

The drawback is that 81 miles and a $12,195 sticker put it among the more expensive ways to cover a short commute. Buy the CE 04 because you want the build quality, the dealer network and the storage, not because the numbers beat a Pulse.

Price	$12,195
Engine power	31 kW - 42 hp
Top speed	120 km/h - 75 mph
Acceleration	0-50 km/h: 2.6 sec
Range	130 km - 81 miles (WMTC)
Website	bmwmotorcycles.com

6. LiveWire S2 Del Mar: The price cut that changes the argument

The Del Mar now starts at $11,999. It launched at $15,499. That $3,500 cut is the most interesting thing to happen to this bike since it arrived, because it moves the Del Mar out of the bracket where it competed on romance and into the one where it competes on arithmetic.

Harley-Davidson’s electric spinoff built a flat-track-flavored naked bike with 84 horsepower, 103 mph and 3.0 seconds to 60, with heat-transfer fins flanking the battery as the only real tell that there’s no engine in there. Around 113 miles of range keeps it honest for a commute and a long way round on the way home.

If you bought one last year, that number stings, and pretending otherwise would be insulting. If you’re buying now, it’s the reason the Del Mar deserves a second look from anyone who priced it once and walked away.

Price	$11,999 (was $15,499)
Engine power	63 kW - 84 hp
Top speed	166 km/h - 103 mph
Acceleration	0-60 mph: 3.0 sec
Range	182 km - 113 miles
Website	livewire.com

7. LiveWire S2 Mulholland: Best electric cruiser

The cruiser was always going to be the hardest category for electric to crack. It’s the most emotional corner of motorcycling, built on sound and slow-burning character, and the Mulholland arrives without either.

It makes the case anyway. The same S2 platform underneath the Del Mar gets a low, laid-back stance, 84 horsepower and a thumping 194 lb-ft of torque that lands the moment you roll on. At a stoplight that is worth more than any exhaust note. Sixty arrives in 3.3 seconds, quicker than the cruiser badge suggests, and LiveWire used the Mulholland to go greener with hemp bio-composite fenders and recycled materials at the touchpoints.

It was repriced alongside the Del Mar and is now the same $11,999. Around 121 miles of city range is the number to plan around, and it drops on the highway like every bike here.

Price	$11,999 (was $15,999)
Engine power	63 kW - 84 hp
Top speed	159 km/h - 99 mph
Acceleration	0-60 mph: 3.3 sec
Range	195 km - 121 miles (city)
Website	livewire.com

8. Honda WN7: The one that stopped being a concept

Honda launched the WN7 on 4 November 2025, and European deliveries have been running since early this year. That sentence is the reason it belongs in the list proper rather than in the bonus section at the bottom. Bikes that get delivered are not coming soon. They’re here.

The numbers are the ones a commuter actually cares about: 50 kW, 100 Nm of torque (74 lb-ft), 80 mph, and 60 mph in 4.6 seconds. Honda quotes a WMTC range above 130 km, roughly 81 miles. The quietly decisive figure is the charging one, at 20 to 80% in about half an hour on a CCS2 connection. Half an hour to most of a battery turns a coffee stop into a refuel and stretches the usable day well past the range figure.

The drawback for a lot of readers of this page is geography. Honda has not confirmed the WN7 for the United States, and there is no US price, so for now this is a bike you can ride in Europe at €14,780 (£12,999) and read about everywhere else.

Price	€14,780 (£12,999). Not sold in the US
Engine power	50 kW - 67 hp
Top speed	129 km/h - 80 mph
Acceleration	0-60 mph: 4.6 sec
Range	Over 130 km - 81 miles (WMTC)
Website	global.honda

9. Royal Enfield Flying Flea C6: Priced to be somebody’s first

Royal Enfield unveiled the Flying Flea C6 in Paris on 16 September, at €5,990 or £5,300, with European and UK deliveries from October. It is already on sale in India. It revives a name from the company’s wartime history, when the original Flying Flea was a lightweight machine dropped by parachute alongside airborne troops.

It has moved into the main list because that is a date and a price rather than a promise. Royal Enfield quotes 15.4 kW (20.6 hp), a 115 km/h top speed and 104 km of WMTC range, about 65 miles, wrapped in a girder-fork silhouette that looks like nothing else at the price. This is the number here most likely to make somebody’s first electric motorcycle their actual first motorcycle.

Two caveats, and they’re both about the calendar and the map. European deliveries only start in October, so nobody has lived with one yet, and the specification you read this month is Royal Enfield’s own rather than anybody’s experience of it. There is a US product page, but no announced American price or delivery date.

Price	€5,990 / £5,300. No US price announced
Engine power	15.4 kW - 20.6 hp
Top speed	115 km/h - 71 mph
Acceleration	Unspecified by Royal Enfield
Range	104 km - 65 miles (WMTC)
Website	flyingflea.royalenfield.com

10. Stark Varg EX: Best electric motorcycle for off-road

Stark Future rewrote the rulebook for electric dirt bikes with the Varg, and the EX is the version you can ride home on. It’s the brand’s street-legal model, homologated for road use in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. That makes it an enduro as comfortable on the trail as on the road to it.

The headline is power you can dial in. The 7.2 kWh battery and motor are good for up to 80 horsepower, and you can tune that anywhere down to 10 through ride modes that also reshape engine braking and regen from a handlebar switch. At 264 lb it’s featherweight next to anything petrol-powered with similar output.

Stark’s spec sheet omits a top speed and gives range in hours rather than miles, quoting up to six hours of trail riding depending on conditions and rider. That’s a genuinely useful number for the woods and a useless one for a commute. At $13,040 it also costs more than the LiveWire S2 Del Mar. That bike makes 84 horsepower and publishes a top speed.

Price	$13,040
Engine power	45-60 kW - 60-80 hp (selectable from 10 hp)
Top speed	Unspecified by Stark
Acceleration	Unspecified by Stark
Range	Up to 6 hours of trail riding
Website	starkfuture.com

11. Lightning LS-218: Fastest electric motorbike

Some electric motorcycles are meant for city streets or off-road trails. The Lightning LS-218 wants one thing above all else, and the bike is named for the day it got it: a land speed record set above 218 mph.

Lightning’s own spec sheet claims 244 horsepower from a 180 kW motor spinning to 10,500 rpm, and 0 to 60 mph in under two seconds. Read the top speed as what it is, a record run rather than a number you’ll see on a Tuesday, and it is still the most outrageous thing here by a distance.

Range depends entirely on which pack you buy, and the spread is enormous: 188 miles on the 15 kWh pack, 255 miles on the 20 kWh, and 335 miles with the 28 kWh Lightning-Fast charge system. There’s the honest drawback on a $38,988 motorcycle. The headline range and the entry price do not describe the same bike, so work out which pack you need before you fall for the number.

Price	$38,988
Engine power	180 kW - 244 hp
Top speed	351 km/h - 218 mph (land speed record)
Acceleration	0-60 mph: under 2 sec
Range	188 miles (15 kWh) / 255 miles (20 kWh) / 335 miles (28 kWh)
Website	lightningmotorcycle.com

12. Maeving RM1S: Best classic styling

Not every electric motorcycle wants to look like the future. The Maeving RM1S looks like the past, a hand-built British roadster with the silhouette of a 1960s café racer, and it’s all the more charming for it.

Spoked wheels, a slim tank and beautifully resolved details hide a thoroughly modern drivetrain, and the twin batteries slide out so you can carry them indoors and charge them next to your desk. That one feature solves the apartment problem better than any public charger. Maeving quotes 15 horsepower, 70 mph and 80 miles between the two packs, and publishes no acceleration figure at all.

The price is now $9,995 in the US, up from $8,995. A thousand dollars is a real increase on a bike whose case was always its accessibility, so buy it for the errands and the city rather than the interstate. Seventy is comfortable on a 55 mph road and thin in the fast lane.

Price	From $9,995 (was $8,995)
Engine power	11 kW - 15 hp
Top speed	113 km/h - 70 mph
Acceleration	Unspecified by Maeving
Range	129 km - 80 miles
Website	maeving.com

13. Vespa Elettrica: Best electric scooter

Kleenex, Google, Band-Aid. Few brands are so iconic that the trademark takes over the generic term. When it comes to scooters, Vespa has been the name of the game since the 1940s.

You’ll see 148 lb-ft of torque attached to the Elettrica and assume somebody has dropped a decimal. Nobody has. That figure comes from Piaggio’s own spec sheet and it is torque at the wheel, 200 Nm after the reduction gearing, rather than the crank figure a motorcycle quotes. Compare the two directly and you’re comparing two different measurements.

Cleared up, the Elettrica is the easiest thing on this page to learn on: 4.8 horsepower, 62 miles of range, an inboard display that pairs with your phone, and six colors. The catch for an American buyer is the speed limiter. The US version tops out at 45 mph. That makes it a city machine and nothing else. If the Vespa name isn’t the point, the Piaggio 1 rides on the same platform for less.

Price	$7,999
Engine power	3.6 kW - 4.8 hp
Top speed	72 km/h - 45 mph (US version)
Acceleration	Unspecified by Piaggio
Range	100 km - 62 miles
Website	storeusa.vespa.com

14. Evoke 6061: The range claim, and the catch

The 6061-GT is the reason the range conversation on this page is interesting at all. Evoke quotes 660 km in the city, 495 km mixed and 331 km on the highway, or roughly 410, 308 and 206 miles. Note how far apart those three sit. On a bike like this the city figure is the headline and the highway figure is your weekend.

The rest of it is a muscle bike: a 29.7 kWh pack hung in a laser-cut aerospace aluminum twin-plate frame, 90 kW driving a 250-section rear tire, 230 km/h (143 mph), and 4.4 seconds to 100 km/h. DC fast charging takes it to 80% in 30 minutes. The price has moved the wrong way for buyers, to $29,995 from $24,995.

The catch is whether you can get one. Evoke’s own page lists the US among its markets but offers a quote request and a test ride booking rather than a checkout, and we couldn’t establish a current US dealer or a shipping date. Thirty thousand dollars is a lot to send toward a delivery question, so settle that with Evoke directly before anything else.

Price	$29,995 (was $24,995)
Engine power	90 kW - 120 hp
Top speed	230 km/h - 143 mph
Acceleration	0-100 km/h - 0-62 mph: 4.4 sec
Range	660 km - 410 miles (city) / 495 km - 308 miles (mixed) / 331 km - 206 miles (highway)
Website	evokemotorcycles.com

15. Onyx RCR: Best fun per dollar, with an asterisk on the speed

It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s the Onyx RCR. It fits into no category at all, landing somewhere between an e-bike and an electric motorcycle. Cafe-racer looks, woodgrain decals, and a price that makes the rest of this list look like a mortgage.

Read the speed figures carefully, because this is where buyers get caught. The RCR 80V runs two separate tunes. Thrill Tune gives you 45, 55, 65 and 75 mph across its four modes, and Onyx states plainly that 65-plus mph is off-road only. Cruise Tune, the one you use on the street, tops out at 15, 20, 30 and 40 mph depending on mode. Range swings just as hard, from 30 miles flat out to 140 miles in the gentlest setting. The motor is good for 21 kW (24 hp) and 30 mph arrives in 1.7 seconds. That last figure is the one that explains the bike.

The other thing to know is the company. Onyx’s former owner died in 2025, leaving unfulfilled orders behind, and founder Tim Seward has since taken the brand back. The bikes are shipping again at $4,699 for the Street version, but a brand this recently handed back has earned a phone call rather than a click.

Price	$4,699 Street / $4,899 Dual Sport (regular $5,199)
Engine power	21 kW - 24 hp
Top speed	40 mph (street, Cruise Tune) / 75 mph (Thrill Tune, 65+ mph off-road only)
Acceleration	0-30 mph: 1.7 sec
Range	30-140 miles depending on mode
Website	onyxmotors.com

16. Ryvid Anthem: Best budget electric motorcycle

Affordable rarely means interesting. The Ryvid Anthem is the exception, a US-built electric motorcycle with a folded stainless-steel monocoque frame, an electronically adjustable seat that moves between 31 and 34 inches at the push of a button, and a removable 4.3 kWh battery you can roll indoors.

Here’s the bike behind that $6,495 line at the top of the page. Ryvid quotes 75-plus mph, 20 kW of peak power in Sport mode, and 30 mph in 1.1 seconds. That is all the acceleration a city asks for. It also does something the rest of this list mostly avoids and publishes its highway range: 75 miles in the city, but 57 miles combined and 46 miles at a constant 55 mph.

That honesty is the reason it’s here rather than a reason to hesitate. Every bike on this page loses range at speed; Ryvid is one of the few that prints the number. Buy the Anthem to replace a car for the short trips and it’s the easiest yes on this list.

Price	From $6,495
Engine power	20 kW peak (Sport mode)
Top speed	120 km/h - 75+ mph
Acceleration	0-30 mph: 1.1 sec
Range	120 km - 75 miles (city) / 92 km - 57 miles (combined)
Website	ryvid.com

Bonus: The upcoming electric motorbike we’re most excited about

One bike on our radar is still genuinely ahead of us.

• Royal Enfield Flying Flea S6 is the scrambler sibling to the C6 above, built on the same platform. Royal Enfield has not disclosed its specification, price or launch date, and the earliest reported window is January 2027, in India first. If the C6’s numbers are the family’s opening position, the S6 is worth a look before you commit to anything else at that end of the market.

Advantages and disadvantages of electric motorcycles

Start with the thing you felt at that stoplight, because it’s the honest argument. There’s one gear, or none, and no clutch to think about. Twist and the bike goes, immediately, with no gap between your wrist and the road. Riders who’ve spent decades coordinating a left hand and a left foot find the first hour disorienting and the second hour delightful. Maintenance shrinks to tires, brakes and the things that wear because you rode. Nobody drains oil.

The quiet divides people. It makes a city commute civilized and it takes something away on an empty road, and no spec sheet is going to settle that for you. Sit on both kinds of bike before you decide which side you’re on.

Now the disadvantages, and they’re real. Range is the smaller of your problems; charging is the actual one. Public charging was built around cars, so you park next to a machine designed for a vehicle you aren’t riding, in weather you aren’t sheltered from. Read every range number on this page as a pair, city and highway, because the gap between them is wider than on any gas bike you’ve owned. The Ryvid drops from 75 miles to 57, and the Evoke from 410 to 206. Weight sits low and that flatters the handling, but it does not flatter a three-point turn on gravel.

Then the disadvantage this page exists to address. A gas motorcycle from a maker that folds is still a motorcycle. An electric one leans on software, proprietary packs and a support line, and the company behind it matters more than the badge suggests. If you’re cross-shopping four wheels while you think about that, our guide to the best luxury electric cars runs the same checks on the same kind of question.

The electric motorcycle that’s best for you

If you want one bike and no asterisks, buy the Zero SR/F. It’s the pick at the top of this page for the plain reason that it performs like the expensive bikes and ships like the ordinary ones.

If your ride is short and mostly urban, the Ryvid Anthem at $6,495 and the Can-Am Pulse at $10,999 are the two to shortlist. The Ryvid is the value answer, the Pulse the one with a dealer network, and the Pulse’s 80 miles combined is the number to plan around.

If you’re in Europe and buying your first, the Honda WN7 and the Royal Enfield Flying Flea C6 at €5,990 are the entries to read twice. Honda has been delivering since early this year, and Royal Enfield starts in October. Neither has a US price.

If distance is the point, the Energica Experia is the touring bike you can order today, and the Evoke 6061 quotes the longest range on this page with a delivery question attached. Settle that question before you spend. Don’t fall in love with a number.

If outright speed is the point, the Lightning LS-218 at $38,988 is the bike, on the condition that you pick your battery pack deliberately rather than buying the headline.

If you’re not sure a motorcycle is what you want, work that out before you shop, because the answer gets expensive later. Our guides to the best electric bikes and the best electric scooters cover the same trips at a fraction of the price and the licensing. And if what you actually love is how a motorcycle looks rather than how fast it charges, spend an evening with the best custom motorcycle builders instead.

Methodology: How we select and rank the best options on the market

We built this list the way a buyer would. The first question wasn’t performance. It was whether the bike is real.

Every entry was checked against the manufacturer’s own current page or the outlet that reported the figure. Then each maker was checked for the things that decide whether an order becomes a motorcycle: insolvency and rescue proceedings, production caps, delivery queues, and whether new-unit orders are actually open. A bike whose maker cannot ship doesn’t get ranked on its specification, however good that specification is. Where our check couldn’t confirm a number, the entry says so rather than repeating a figure we couldn’t stand behind.

One thing we haven’t done, and won’t claim. Nobody on staff has ridden these bikes. This is a buying guide built from manufacturer specifications and outlet reporting, not a review, and the difference matters enough to say out loud.

The bike we considered and cut

Arc Vector. It used to be the hero of this page, and it’s now the clearest illustration of why the page changed. Arc V Ltd went into insolvency for the second time, with a liquidator appointed on 19 March 2024, and only 11 units were ever built. That isn’t a rare motorcycle. It’s a motorcycle you cannot buy at any price. Every list still ranking the Vector on its specification ranks a spec sheet rather than a purchase.

One last piece of advice the table can’t carry. Before you put money down, call the dealer and ask two questions: when would this specific bike actually arrive, and who services it in year three. The answers take four minutes and they’ll tell you more about the next decade of owning the thing than any number on this page.

Here’s the recap, with what each one costs today.