The Ducati PRO-III electric standing scooter is the company\u2019s latest entry in a long line of micromobility products.<\/p>\n
But like Ducati\u2019s electric bicycles and other scooters<\/a>, it is largely built by other companies that license Ducati\u2019s brand name.<\/p>\n Ducati says that its new \u20ac799 PRO-III electric scooter is its most advanced yet, as the company explained:<\/p>\n PRO-III is the most technically advanced scooter in the Ducati Urban e-mobility line, thanks to the connection to the\u00a0Ducati Urban e-Mobility User App\u00a0and the use of the\u00a0innovative NFC technology. The e-scooter is equipped with a token that allows you to start the scooter simply by bringing it close to the display, allowing the use of the vehicle only to the owner in possession of the chip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That NFC chip and the handlebar-mounted USB charging port for phones and other devices appear to be the only two major advances compared to electric scooters available 3-4 years ago.<\/a> The rest of the specs are largely equivalent to several-year-old tech.<\/p>\n The scooter reaches a top speed of 15.5 mph (25 km\/h), houses a 350W motor and includes a battery pack with 468 Wh of capacity.<\/p>\n Ducati claims that\u2019s enough battery for 31 miles (50 km) of range.<\/p>\n The new scooter unveiling comes in stark contrast to another recent announcement from Ducati: <\/a>It will be the sole supplier of electric racing motorcycles for the MotoE racing series starting in 2023. <\/p>\n The news drew raised eyebrows due to the fact that Ducati doesn\u2019t actually make any electric motorcycles, nor has the company seemed particularly enthusiastic about the prospect.<\/p>\n The announcement came just days after fellow Italian motorcycle manufacturer Energica<\/a> announced that 2022 would be the last year that its 150+ mph (241+ km\/h) electric motorcycles would be used in the racing series.<\/p>\n Ducati now has less than two years to design, develop, and produce an electric motorcycle. That development cycle will surely be helped by the fact that Ducati engineers are now studying Energica\u2019s bikes, as confirmed<\/a> by Energica CEO Livia Cevolini:<\/p>\n It\u2019s good that they are going their own way, even though I know they have our bikes in their factory that they are studying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ducati has had quite the on-again, off-again relationship with the idea of electric motorcycle production over the past few years.<\/p>\n In 2019, Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali made waves\u00a0when he declared that \u201cthe future is electric,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>and indicated that Ducati was working on a production electric motorcycle that would be premiering relatively soon.<\/p>\n\n
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