The Hong Kong government is replacing its entire gasoline-powered motorcycle fleet including police motorcycles with electric-powered Brammo motorcycles.
The Hong Kong Police Force will use the law enforcement version of the 2012 Brammo Enertia Plus. Engineers from Hong Kong’s Water Supplies Department will also use the civilian version of the Brammo Enertia Plus to travel to service locations around the Chinese city-state.
Production of Brammo electric motorcycles is now underway in a facility in Sárvár, Hungary.
The facility will produce about 660 units a month. The facility will initially be used to produce the Brammo Enertia and Enertia Plus for North America, Europe and Asia.
“Now that our new facility has begun production, we have a significant number of customer and fleet orders that we will be fulfilling this year,” says Craig Bramscher, founder and CEO of Brammo. “It’s been a very satisfying year with customer orders, new dealers and now production all gaining momentum much faster than anticipated.”
The Sárvár facility is operated by electronics manufacturing provider Flextronics. Brammo announced a partnership with Flextronics in September 2010 to increase the company’s production capabilities to a global scale.
Related Reading
2011 Brammo Enertia Plus Preview
Brammo Announces Manufacturing Partnership
Brammo secures $12.4 million investment
The Brammo Enertia electric bike has been picking up some great media coverage this year, from the Best Buy partnership, their PR road trip from Ann Arbor, MI to Washington, DC and the huge price cut that was announced recently. With battery technology advancing, you have to figure its just a matter of time before electric bikes will become common on our roads, we shall see if the Enertia will be around when it happens…
Brammo, maker of plug-in electric motorcycles, announced today it is dropping the price of the all-electric Brammo Enertia powercycle, to $7,995. Customers are also eligible for a 10% federal income tax credit, further reducing the price to $7,195.
“While this pricing breakthrough is innovative in transportation, it is in line with consumer electronics, where engineering and production advances get passed on to customers as quickly as possible to stimulate adoption of the technology,” stated Craig Bramscher, founder and CEO of Brammo. “The Enertia is consumer electronics that you can ride and Brammo’s engineers are able to deliver a better value proposition to customers sooner than a traditional transportation company.”
Its no accident that two riders representing Brammo started their PR road trip earlier this week from Ann Arbor, MI to Washington, DC. It also the happens to be about the same route CEO’s took from the big three, but instead of asking for a handout they are only looking to promote electric transportation as a solution to the transportation “crisis”.
According to greentechmedia.com, Best Buy and Brammo (the maker of the Enertia electric bike) have plans in place to sell the $12,000 Enertia electric motorcycle at five of the electronic chain’s West Coast stores in May. Back in September, Best Buy Venture Capital invested $10 million Brammo so this deal was the next logical step. If all goes well, the distribution will spread across the Best Buy chain of 1,200 stores in the U.S., some stores in Europe and China will also to get some supply.
