INTERVIEW | SAVIC MOTORCYCLES CEO DENNIS SAVIC

Originally Published: 26th October, 2025

In 2018, Dennis Savic was tinkering on a prototype in the corner of a fabrication shed, convinced that Australia could build its own electric motorcycle. It sounded like a pipedream at the time, maybe even naïve. But today, the company that grew from that borrowed space is delivering the Savic C-Series Alpha to customers, running a West Melbourne assembly line and preparing for global expansion with a Chinese factory partner.

While we spoke, Dennis Savic, now 31, was in Perth visiting family, taking the call from the company’s small showroom there, when his dad dropped by to see what he was working on. “Dad came in and he was just hanging out with me whilst rebuilding one of the bikes. And I said, Dad, did you ever think I would be doing something like this? And he goes, mate, you couldn’t even pick up a screwdriver when you were,” he grins.

“One of the hardest things to do in this industry is to bring all the different components together into a single unit that works and works well,” Savic says. “Even the large OEMs struggle with that.” The small Australian outfit ended up developing its own motor, battery and control systems in-house – work that global manufacturers typically outsource – and doing it with a team of fewer than 20.

One of its most distinctive features is the single-sided swingarm, developed entirely in-house. It went through three iterations before the team achieved the right tolerances and strength balance. “Having a single-sided swingarm was important for us,” Savic says. “But it’s hard to do, you know… But we got there. It was through sheer persistence we got there.” The result is not only a design signature but a technical milestone for a start-up building its own hardware from the ground up.

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Attribution
This article originally appeared on Bike Reveiws.com.au, on 26th October 2025
Words: Kellie Buckley

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