Ion Mobility launches Singapore's first electric motorcycle

Singapore

COULD a Singaporean startup do for motorcycles in South-east Asia what Tesla has done for cars by making electric power not just practical, but desirable?

James Chan, the founder and chief executive officer of Ion Mobility, believes he has just the machine to do it.

On Thursday (Dec 2), the homegrown electric motorbike company unveiled the Mobius, a battery-powered bike that it will build and sell in Indonesia in the first half of 2022.

"We can't wait to introduce the Ion Mobius onto the roads of Indonesia next year," he said. Ion Mobility will take pre-orders there "soon" and assemble it in the Greater Jakarta area.

If all goes to plan, the company will crank out 1,500 of them a month b…