Remember Kawasaki’s introduction of its Ninja EV and Z EV prototype electric motorcycles at EICMA 2022? Although it may have taken some time for Kawasaki to publicly announce that it was working on electric motorbikes, it clearly hit the ground running by utilizing an existing combustion bike platform as a structural building block. That’s why, the company said, it expected to roll its first electric bikes out into the world as production models later in 2023.
Since it’s now the early days of August 2023, though, if you’ve been wondering about the progress on these two bikes, you’re probably not alone. That’s where governmental vehicle type approval documents can come in handy—like the ones that Kawasaki just filed with Australia’s Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, and the Arts (say that five times fast).
