MILAN SHOW: Energica Esse 9 could be on the roads in 2017

Published: 10 November 2016

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Electric motorcycle manufacturer Energica is set to release a new road bike, which it showed as a ‘concept’ model at EICMA in Italy to gauge public opinion.

The Esse 9, which is named after a road that crosses the area of Modena where Energica are based, is a scrambler style of naked bike with high quality Öhlins suspension and spoked wheels. If customers demand the bike, Energica will build it in early 2017 as it is effectively the current Eva model with a restyle and new seat.

By Jon Urry

MCN contributor, original 916 & R1-owner, human Labrador, thoroughly nice bloke. Working for over 20 years in the motorcycle industry, Jon not only has an encyclopaedic knowledge of bikes, but has also interviewed many key players in the motorcycle industry, including designers, factory bosses and legendary racers. Still a passionate motorcyclist with child-like enthusiasm for two-wheels, Jon has a collection of both modern and classic bikes that he maintains himself and he writes a weekly column in MCN (newspaper) about used bikes and the state of the motorcycle market.