MotoE - The End for MotoE! No electric racing series in 2026

MotoE is likely history. As the FIM and promoter Dorna announced on Thursday, there will be no more season of the electric racing series in 2026. Officially, there is talk of a break next year, but it can be assumed that it will be definitively over.

As stated in the press release, this decision was made in collaboration with the motorcycle industry and the stakeholders of the Motorcycle World Championship. MotoE, they stated, never generated sufficient interest among fans. Furthermore, the market for electric sports motorcycles has not developed as expected. Should this change, MotoE will be re-evaluated.

MotoE faced ill fortunes from the very beginning. Before its debut season in 2019 , a fire broke out during testing in Jerez while charging the bikes, destroying the entire paddock of the electric racing series and all the motorcycles. The start of the season subsequently had to be postponed. Another incident occurred at the Austrian Grand Prix. A battery exploded in the packed paddock, requiring a specially trained firefighter team from Spain to intervene.

Such problems subsequently disappeared. With the switch from the single-seat manufacturer Energica to Ducati in the 2023 season, the performance of the motorcycles was also improved. Initially, these motorcycles were significantly too heavy, and the limited range of the machines resulted in extremely short race distances. But even with Ducati on board, interest in MotoE remained limited. Well-known riders, such as Sete Gibernau, Randy de Puniet, and Bradley Smith, were present in the series' debut season, are no longer present.

The Motorcycle World Championship has already found a replacement for the supporting program for 2026. The Harley-Davidson Bagger World Cup will contest six events next year in Austin , Mugello, Assen, Silverstone, Aragon, and Spielberg. Despite the end of MotoE, the topic of sustainability will not be neglected in the future of MotoGP . Since 2024, the premier class has used fuels that are 40 percent non-fossil-based. By 2027, MotoGP fuel will be 100 percent non-fossil-based.

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