Vinfast unveils 4 new electrical bike fashions from electrical automobile maker

Vietnam-based electrical automobile maker VinFast confirmed off extra than simply electrical SUVs and crossovers at CES 2023. The electrical automaker shocked us with 4 new electrical bike ideas on show.

The corporate already has a reasonably eclectic providing of EVs that spans electrical vehicles, electrical scooters, electrical buses, and clear power options.

However the electric-assist bicycles characterize a brand new route for VinFast.

All 4 bikes had been listed as “ideas,” and there’s no phrase on whether or not they’ll really make it to manufacturing.

However since VinFast is already producing seated electrical scooters, it wouldn’t be so far-fetched to see the corporate drop down a weight class or two and produce electrical bicycles.

The 4 fashions, seen beneath in images taken by Electrek’s Scooter Doll, characterize a variety of e-bike types for various using situations.

Two of the bikes function mid-drive motors and two function hub motors, however they’re every uniquely tailored for a unique type of using.

The forest inexperienced mannequin is a hybrid-style commuter bike with a centrally-located mid-drive motor, a inflexible fork, a forward-tucked geometry and what seems to be frame-integrated LED lighting.

Subsequent to it sits a blue electrical mountain bike that makes use of an analogous type body outfitted with a short-travel suspension fork. The bike isn’t fairly as rugged as most hardtail eMTBs we’ve seen, underscored by the body’s somewhat diminutive seat keep tubes. However contemplating that these are idea e-bikes, that body might definitely change by the point it reaches manufacturing.

The corporate additionally confirmed off a mini-bike electrical bicycle with rear hub motor that appears to invoke some critical SUPER73 vibes. The bike makes use of an open moped-style body with a stubby bench seat that covers an underslung battery. A pair of 20″ diameter knobby fats tires and a twin crown suspension fork appear to suggest that the bike might need scrambler-esque aspirations for each on and off-road using.

Lastly, VinFast additionally confirmed off a narrow-tire folding e-bike with a rear-hub motor. The small e-bike appears designed to satisfy a commuter-type function. Such e-bikes have confirmed well-liked for commuters that want to hold the e-bike onto a bus or subway and for drivers who prefer to preserve a small folding e-bike within the trunk of their automobile to increase their attain right into a metropolis.

VinFast’s electrical bike ideas appear to be fleshing out the corporate’s product line forward of a potential IPO. The transfer additionally highlights a rising pattern we’ve seen within the auto business of automakers partnering or innovating their approach towards micromobility automobiles like e-bikes and scooters carrying the automaker’s badge.

Many such automakers have both white-labeled or in any other case teamed up with e-bike makers to provide a two-wheeler bearing the corporate’s title. That’s how Polestar wound up with its personal bike, and others corresponding to Hummer and Jeep pulled related strikes to create a branded e-bike mannequin. Ducati and BMW additionally used an analogous technique on their path to e-bikes and e-scooters.

Different firms have really developed their very own two-wheelers in home from the bottom up. Harley-Davidson famously spent years designing its well-liked electrical bikes that had been ultimately spun out as impartial e-bike firm Serial 1. GM developed a custom-designed electrical bike with a a lot lauded design, although it met an premature demise within the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Porsche has a quantity of attention-grabbing e-bikes as effectively, as does Peugeot.

Now it appears to be like like VinFast may very well be set to affix that second group if it will definitely brings these e-bike ideas to fruition.