{"id":3901,"date":"2025-03-14T11:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.electronthemes.com\/insightev\/wk-11-2025-europe-matters-we-ride-with-colibri-and-around-the-world-this-week\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:07:28","slug":"wk-11-2025-europe-matters-we-ride-with-colibri-and-around-the-world-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.electronthemes.com\/insightev\/wk-11-2025-europe-matters-we-ride-with-colibri-and-around-the-world-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Wk 11 2025 – Europe Matters? We Ride with Colibri; and Around the World this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week was all about Europe. In our Thursday long-format analysis, we looked at how Europe, once considered an automotive leader with class-leading capabilities in product design and chassis engineering (we are talking two-wheelers here), has lost its way. It’s now cannon fodder for the Chinese and has been reduced to just being a mid-size market for global manufacturers. When it comes to E2Ws, the first wave of European startups is either dead or struggling badly. The second wave didn’t matter as European entrepreneurs decided that normal was boring and that they wanted to chase niches that didn’t exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arc, Energica, Cake, Brekr, Monoracer, many more – every time the Europeans created something, the world ordered popcorn and held their collective breath.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So what will get Europe clicking again? We don’t know. Our analysis did not throw any answers or find a silver lining.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Colibri solves the apartment dweller’s problem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In our other story, we spoke to Budapest-based Petre Georgescu, the CEO of Colibri. He has designed the M22 commuter motorcycle. On paper, it may look ordinary, but it has some big things going for it – there are three portable batteries in parallel. And then the entire bike can jack-knife to fit inside elevators so that you can store it in your living room \/foyer. In theft-prone European cities, this is a blessing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stark Future’s Future<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stark Future has multiple new motorcycles incoming. The Stark Varg continues to be a hot-seller but it’s not street legal. But then, Stark announced the EX in December. The EX is the company’s first street legal motorcycle and is eagerly awaited. Now, the company has homologated it for the US market<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second Stark is the SM, which sounds even more exciting. It is a supermoto version of the EX. If they followed the conventional path of converting motocrossers to supermotos, we can expect the 21″\/18″ wheels to be replaced by 17″\/17″ ones, less suspension travel, and more road oriented tires. The SM may be exciting as a daily-use motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stark also announced the Varg Skugga, a military version of the Varg EX, through a LinkedIn post. Electric is a format that works well for light military vehicles because of its inherent stealth nature and ease of logistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n