Eye on untapped market, nine e-bikes to turn up the heat in 2023

The new launches will be from the two significant companies already selling e-motorcycles -- Revolt Motor, the largest in this segment, and Tork Motor - as well as from others

It is not only in technology that India’s electric two-wheeler (e2W) market differs from the traditional two-wheelers running on internal combustion engines, or ICE. Still in its infancy, the e2W market is overwhelmingly in favour of scooters, with motorcycles bringing in less than 2 per cent of the 700,000 vehicles sold last year.

This is in sharp contrast to the ICE two-wheeler market, where motorcycles have been in dominance ever since they surpassed scooters in the 1990s and, despite a rise in the share of scooters in recent years, are 60 per cent of all sales. This year, though, a