Car-Brand E-Bikes

Ownership and badges

A Bike Company Builds Almost Every Car-Badged E-Bike

The badge on the top tube rarely names the company that designed the frame or the drive. The table lists who builds each one and on what terms.

Owned companies

Porsche Bought Fazua and Greyp, Then Shut the Drive Business

Porsche raised its stake in Fazua from 20 to 100 percent in June 2022 and renamed it Porsche eBike Performance GmbH, based in Ottobrunn near Munich. Fazua's Ride 60, a lightweight mid-drive, went into e-MTBs from Storck, Transition and Pivot. In late 2021 Porsche also took a majority of Greyp, the Croatian connected e-bike maker then owned by Rimac, with plans to merge Greyp software with Fazua drives.

A second joint venture, P2 Bike, was set up with Pon to build a new generation of Porsche e-MTBs around those drives. It was discontinued in December 2025. On May 8, 2026, Porsche announced the closure of Porsche eBike Performance, citing changed market conditions for e-bike drives; about 360 jobs in Ottobrunn and Zagreb are affected. Porsche-branded e-bikes continue: the eBike Sport and eBike Cross, sold since spring 2021, are designed and built by Rotwild, and the 2023 Cross Performance uses a Shimano EP801 with a 630 Wh battery.

Harley-Davidson founded Serial 1 as a subsidiary in 2020. Florida-based LEV Manufacturing and Lane VC bought it in November 2023, and Serial 1 now lists Gen 2 and Gen 3 models with Brose motor parts. Ducati is owned by Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group, so Volkswagen reaches e-bikes through Ducati's Thok partnership and Audi's Fantic license.

Peugeot Cycles is a separate business from the car company. PSA sold the bicycle license and the Romilly-sur-Seine factory in 1992, which became Cycleurope. Rebirth, owner of Solex and Matra, bought Cycleurope Industries in October 2024, took over the license from Peugeot Automobiles, and has an agreement running to 2042.

Licensed badges

Licensed Badges Go to Bike Makers That Build Their Own Platforms

• Audi eMTB: Fantic's XEF 1.9 Factory enduro bike with a Brose S-Mag motor, 90 Nm and 720 Wh, sold as a limited edition through Audi Genuine Accessories from May 2024.
• Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team: N+ builds the bikes under license, including the Rallye Edition with a 750 W rear hub motor, a nine-speed Pinion C1.9 gearbox and a Gates belt. N+ also had an agreement with the Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E team.
• Ford: N+ launched one Bronco and two Mustang e-bikes in August 2024, all with a 750 W hub motor rated at 85 Nm, sold under Ford brand licensing.
• Lamborghini: Italtechnology, a Friuli start-up, holds the license; two models went on sale in 2018, built in Recoaro Terme with a motor and eight-speed electromagnetic sequential gearbox patented by designer Fabrizio Storti.
• Pininfarina: Diavelo builds the E-voluzione with a Brose drive; an 88-unit red limited edition launched at Eurobike 2017.
• Jeep: QuietKat built a 750 W fat-tire full-suspension bike based on its RidgeRunner, announced in March 2020.
• MINI: the MINI E-Bike 1 came from French maker Angell in 2023. Angell recalled about 5,000 bikes for a frame defect in autumn 2024 and stopped payments in January 2025.
• BMW: the Active Hybrid of 2017 used a BH Bikes frame shaped by BMW Designworks and a Brose motor with 90 Nm.
• Polestar: Allebike built the Elize Polestar Engineered e-MTB with a Shimano EP8.

McLaren Automotive does not own VanMoof. Lavoie, an e-scooter unit of McLaren Applied, bought the bankrupt Dutch maker in 2023, and McLaren Applied is a separate company from the carmaker.

Motorcycle makers

Yamaha Builds Its Own Drives; Ducati and Harley Went Through Partners

Yamaha released the first production e-bike, the PAS, in 1993 and passed five million drive units in 2019. It began supplying European bicycle brands with drive kits in 2013, and its PW-X3 e-MTB unit followed in 2022. Yamaha sells complete bikes under its own name and drives to other bike brands.

Ducati has worked with Italian maker Thok since the MIG-RR, shown at EICMA in November 2018 with a Shimano Steps E8000. The current range covers the MIG-S, TK-01RR, Powerstage RR with a Shimano EP801 rated at 85 Nm, and the Futa road bike with an FSA HM 1.0 rear hub of 42 Nm. Harley-Davidson's Serial 1 used Brose drives and left Harley in 2023. Honda showed an e-MTB prototype at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 and calls it a planned production model.

China

Xiaomi Reaches E-Bikes Through HIMO; No Chinese Carmaker Sells One Under Its Own Badge

Xiaomi now builds the SU7 sedan and YU7 SUV, and its e-bikes come through HIMO, a brand backed by Xiaomi. HIMO launched the C20 folding e-bike in April 2019 with a 250 W rear hub and 360 Wh battery, and its C26 Max, with a 250 W hub, 35 Nm and a 48 V battery, was on sale in Europe in 2024. No e-bike sold under the BYD, NIO, Geely, Lotus or Xpeng badge could be confirmed. Chinese scooter maker NIU, unrelated to NIO, sells e-bicycles such as the BQi-C3 Pro.

Concepts

Three Concepts Never Reached Production

• Lexus Hybrid Bicycle Concept, Tokyo Motor Show 2009: a 240 W front motor and a belt-driven rear wheel, giving two-wheel drive, with an electronically shifted eight-speed Shimano hub and regenerative braking. Lexus had no production plans.
• Skoda Klement, Geneva Motor Show 2019: a 4 kW rear hub motor, up to 45 km/h and two removable batteries totaling 1,250 Wh, shown again at Eurobike 2019. At that speed it sits in the moped class, outside the e-bike rules.
• Honda e-MTB Prototype, Japan Mobility Show 2025: Honda has not named the motor and lists it as a planned production model, so its status may change.