Kawasaki e-1

The Kawasaki e-1 is an electric motorcycle and the first battery-electric production motorcycle from Kawasaki. It is sold in two forms that share a chassis and a traction motor: the naked Z e-1 and the faired Ninja e-1, whose styling follows the petrol Z400 and Ninja 400. Kawasaki showed prototypes at the Suzuka 8 Hours in August 2022 and made the official announcement at EICMA that November, after earlier showing an Endeavor prototype at EICMA 2019. A single-speed reduction gear means there is no clutch or gear lever. Rated output is 9 kilowatts, sized for the Class A1 licence in Europe, and two removable lithium-ion batteries of 1.5 kilowatt-hours each supply the power, in line with a battery swapping standard Kawasaki agreed with Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha.