On October 3, 2023, Kawasaki officially introduced its first two electric motorcycles, the Ninja e-1 and Z e-1, to the United States market. The bikes have been in development for some time, and Kawasaki has been careful to share tantalizing glimpses of their development to keep global interest piqued. It brought near-production concepts to EICMA 2022 and also did a presentation there in front of a global audience.
Now, if you’re at all like me, one of the first questions you might have asked yourself is what kind of batteries it would be using. After all, in March 2022, Kawasaki banded together with Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha to work on swappable battery solutions via a new firm called Gachaco. From its public introduction, Kawasaki talked about the Ninja EV and Z EV having swappable batteries. The math was right in front of us.
