Yamaha goes full e-bike

The Japanese motors are already providing powerful support on numerous e-mountainbikes, with Giant and Haibike, for example, ensuring that Yamaha units are well-known and popular. In future, Yamaha will not only act as a motor supplier, but will also build its own electric bikes, initially only for the USA.

And Yamaha knows how to build an e-mountainbike motor; this summer, the Japanese company presented the PW-X drive, which is both quiet and powerful. Yamaha will not stop there in future - and is rolling out a wide fleet of electric bikes in the USA. The portfolio includes the "YDX-TORC", an e-hardtail for which only a few details are known. A Yamaha mid-motor is of course installed, the wheel size is 27.5 inches and the battery sits on the down tube without integration.

In addition to the e-hardtail, Yamaha is also launching e-bikes for urban, trekking and racing bikes in the USA. It is not yet clear if and when Yamaha will offer electric bikes in Switzerland. The full range of Yamaha's own e-bikes can be found here: www.yamahabicycles.com