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Yamaha Motor Introduces E01 Electric Scooter with Fixed Battery for POC Testing

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IWATA, JAPAN – March 17, 2022 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) –  Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it will progressively introduce the E01, an 8.1 kW class electric scooter using a fixed (non-removable) battery design, to Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand for real-world proof-of-concept (PoC) testing from July 2022.

The E01 is an electric scooter featuring usability equal to a 50–125cc class gasoline-powered scooter and performance suitable for interurban mobility. With an eye on constructing EV infrastructure, vehicle sharing business frameworks, and the like, the E01 will also serve as a PoC model aimed at vehicle sharing operators, local governments, government agencies, and other parties for the purpose of grasping real user needs, ascertaining possibilities with related businesses, opening up new markets, and more. The model will be manufactured…

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