Why this new Australian electric motorbike is a game changer

Originally Published: 16th June 2025

Why this new Australian electric motorbike is a game changer

After years of painstaking development in Melbourne, Savic’s C-Series cafe racer is a thing of beauty. Here’s what it’s like to ride it.

Driving with Tony Davis

I'm going to stick my neck out and say the Savic – pronounced savich, in the manner of the founder’s Bosnian surname – is the most stylish motorcycle on the market.

Looking like an art deco-influenced prop from a 1930s sci-fi film, it’s also fully electric and, most remarkably of all, Australian designed and assembled.

Melbourne-based Savic has been creating waves for the past few years, but failed to deliver product until an example of this C-Series cafe racer finally reached its first customer in late March. The problem was the usual one affecting new players: Dennis Savic and his small, young and super-enthusiastic crew displayed an elegant prototype in 2018 and made promises, then discovered the hard way just how many further steps were required to achieve series production.

Read the full article here: AFR: Why this new Australian electric motorbike is a game changer

Attribution
This article originally appeared in Australian Financial Review [online 16th June 2025, print Life & Leisure pg 46 20th - 22nd June]
Words: Tony Davis
Photography: Provided by Savic Motorcycles
Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved to the original publisher.