The British Electric Motorcycle Built Where It All Began
Maeving builds electric motorcycles in Coventry, where British motorcycling began, with a team carrying 200 years of combined industry experience behind every design decision.
Maeving builds electric motorcycles in Coventry, where British motorcycling began, with a team carrying 200 years of combined industry experience behind every design decision.
Maeving makes electric motorcycles in Coventry, the city that invented British motorcycling. The team behind them has over 200 years of combined experience in the industry, and they have worked on some of the most respected bikes in the world.
Why Coventry?
There is a reason Coventry keeps appearing in conversations about British manufacturing. Before it became synonymous with car-making, it was the birthplace of the British motorcycle industry. Triumph started here. BSA was built here. Norton, Royal Enfield, and Rudge all drew from the same concentration of engineering knowledge in the Midlands.
When Maeving's founders chose to base the company in Coventry, they were not reaching for a heritage story. They were hiring from the talent pool that city has spent a century building.
"If the electrified future of motorcycling involves embracing the past, Maeving has nailed the formula first time of asking."
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That is what distinguishes Maeving from other electric two-wheelers. The engineering decisions, the design calls, the quality checks: they happen in the same postcode where Triumph used to test its engines.
200 Years of Combined Experience
The Maeving product and engineering team brings over 200 years of combined motorcycle industry experience to a range of three bikes. These are people who have worked at volume manufacturers, at specialist builders, and at small workshops where the relationship between a rider and a machine still means something.
That depth of knowledge shows up in the places marketing copy rarely reaches. The geometry of the frame. The weighting of the throttle.
It also shows up in what was left out. No gears. No clutch. No oil changes. The team knew what to remove because they understood what those components had always cost the rider in attention and maintenance time.
The Design: Where Heritage Meets Now
Maeving bikes are not a recreation of a 1960s café racer. They are a response to one.
The spoked wheels, the tank profile, the clean line from headlight to tail: these are deliberate references to the Board Trackers of the 1920s and the café racer culture that followed. The design team studied those proportions not to copy them but to understand why they worked. The result is a bike that looks at home parked outside a pub that has been open since 1953 and equally at home parked outside a wine bar that opened last year.
The practical details are equally considered. The RM1S carries 10 litres of lockable in-tank storage with a USB-C port built in. The RM2 offers an optional 30-litre back box that fits a helmet. These are not features added late in the design process. They are the design process, run by people who have ridden motorcycles every day and know what the daily reality of ownership asks of a bike.
What Electric Changes, and What It Does Not
The RM1S will carry a rider to 70 mph with no gearbox to manage and no clutch to slip. Up to 80 miles of combined range covers the vast majority of recreational riding without a second thought about charging.
What electric does not change is the experience of being on a well-made British motorcycle. The weight distribution. The steering feel. The sense that someone who understood riding made every decision about how this machine would behave.
The batteries are removable. Take them inside, plug them into any standard wall socket at home or at work using the charging dock, and the bike is ready in the morning.
Two MCN Electric Bike of the Year awards sit on Maeving's shelf. The Simms Medal, awarded by the Royal Automobile Club for engineering innovation, sits alongside them. The industry noticed what Coventry had built.
See the Range
The RM1S starts from £7,495. The RM2, which adds a pillion seat and optional storage, starts from £7,995. Both require only a CBT to ride solo, and Maeving reimburses the cost of the course on purchase.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where are Maeving electric motorcycles made?
Maeving designs and assembles its electric motorcycles in Coventry, the city historically regarded as the birthplace of British motorcycling. The engineering and product team brings over 200 years of combined motorcycle industry experience to the range.
What British motorcycle heritage informs Maeving's design?
Maeving's bikes draw on the aesthetic traditions of Board Trackers from the 1920s and the café racer culture of the 1960s, both rooted in British motorcycling history. The spoked wheels, tank profile, and clean frame lines are deliberate references to that era, interpreted for modern urban riding rather than recreated as pastiche.
Do Maeving electric motorcycles require a full motorcycle licence?
No. All three Maeving models, the RM1, RM1S, and RM2 (solo), are legal to ride in the UK with a CBT, which is a one-day Compulsory Basic Training course. Maeving reimburses the cost of the CBT when a customer goes on to purchase a bike through the New Rider Programme.