KYMCO, a number one Taiwanese scooter maker, has simply introduced the following step in its rising partnership with US-based electrical bike firm LiveWire. The long-awaited KYMCO RevoNEX electrical bike will now be constructed on the Arrow S2 platform developed by LiveWire.
The pair of firms confirmed off the newest design for the RevoNEX electrical bike in a joint announcement on the 2024 EICMA Milan Motorbike Present, with KYMCO Chairman Allen Ko driving the bike out to the middle stage in a dramatic unveiling.
The RevoNEX has been years within the making and undergone a number of key design updates on its circuitous path from idea to hopeful manufacturing. Whereas earlier variations have skewed a lot additional within the path of idea bikes, KYMCO’s partnership with LiveWire has allowed the RevoNEX to be reworked on high of an current bike platform already in serial manufacturing.
LiveWire makes use of the S2 Arrow platform for its Del Mar and Mulholland electrical bikes, with the platform particularly designed as a flexible basis that might enable a mess of choices for varied motorbikes. Now a type of choices might be beneath the KYMCO badge with a novel styling not like something we seemingly would have seen from LiveWire.
“Each element of the brand new RevoNEX has been meticulously crafted to convey riders essentially the most distinctive electrical driving expertise,” stated KYMCO Chairman Allen Ko. “And we’re decided to convey the brand new RevoNEX to shoppers within the shortest time.”
Once I pressed Mr. Ko on that timeframe, he defined that their goal is to comply with shortly behind LiveWire’s meant launch of its upcoming Arrow S2-based electrical maxi-scooter inbuilt collaboration with KYMCO, which is slated for the primary half of 2026. Ko added that he hopes the RevoNEX might be able to launch by the second half of 2026.
This marks one of the best likelihood for KYMCO’s RevoNEX to land on a path to manufacturing and additional underscores the rising relationship between the Taiwanese scooter big and the American electrical bike maker.
Whereas there’s nonetheless loads of time to attend earlier than a possible RevoNEX manufacturing model unveiling and eventual graduation of producing, the long run actually seems shiny now that KYMCO has chosen a complicated platform that might assist notice RevoNEX’s long-awaited imaginative and prescient in a practical timeline.