Yamaha Motor to Reveal YE-01 Electric Motocross Concept Model at EICMA 2025

Seeking to compete in the new MXEP electric motocross racing series

IWATA, JAPAN – November 6, 2025 – (Motor Sports NewsWire) – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced that it will exhibit the YE-01 electric motocross concept model at EICMA 2025 (The International Two-Wheeler Exhibition) that began on November 4 in Milan, Italy. The YE-01 takes a fun-based approach toward achieving carbon neutrality and was jointly developed with French electric motorcycle manufacturer, Electric Motion SAS (CEO: Philippe Aresten).

Yamaha Motor has previously competed in the FIM Trial World Championship with its TY-E electric trials bike and is currently supplying the powertrain for the Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E Team racing in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The Company will leverage the electric control technologies, thermal energy management know-how, and other expertise gained through these demanding racing environments with the YE-01 toward the goal of entering the new MXEP electric motocross racing series in 2026. By taking on this new challenge in the world of motocross, the Company aims to further advance its EV technologies.

Yamaha Motor has set a companywide Yamaha Motor Group Environmental Plan 2050 for achieving carbon neutrality throughout all of its business activities-including across the life cycles of its products-by 2050.*¹The Company will continue to conduct R&D into a variety of technologies, including electrification, that contribute to sustainability, pursuing a multi-pathway approach toward achieving carbon neutrality.

The YE-01 is part of Yamaha Motor’s initiatives to achieve its Environmental Plan and is one symbolic model representing the Company’s commitment to electrification. As the Kando*²Creating Company, Yamaha Motor will continue delivering greater fun and excitement to customers through products that harness the unique appeals of electric power.

*1 Other emissions outside of business activities that include offices, factories, and energy purchases (Scope 1 and 2) that include product use and raw material procurement (Scope 3).
*2 Kando is a Japanese word for the simultaneous feelings of deep satisfaction and intense excitement that we experience when we encounter something of exceptional value.

Source: Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. 

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