Honda announced an ambitious plan to introduce at least 10 electric two-wheelers by the year 2025 earlier in 2022. Since it’s almost 2023, that doesn’t leave a whole lot of time—but of course, a company like Honda wouldn’t make an announcement like that if it didn’t have at least a few models already up its sleeve.
On November 8, 2022, Honda Europe introduced its first electric two-wheeler for European customers, the EM1 e:. The “EM” part of the naming designation stands for “Electric Moped,” and for those who’ve been following Honda’s global electric two-wheeler journey thus far, you’ll already know that Team Red likes to use that “e:” on the whole range, including the Benly e:, Gyro e:, and Gyro Canopy e:. For the sake of consistency, the formal name of Honda’s swappable battery packs that power all these scoots is the very simple “Honda Mobile Power Pack e:.”