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See the Husqvarna E-Pilen electric bike concept here - an urban mobility design with 125 performance and swappable battery tech.

Author: Martin Fitz-Gibbons Updated: 12 March 2021 The world of small, affordable electric commuters is dominated by Chinese-built bikes, but the Silence S01 is different. It’s made in Spain, in a factory near Barcelona where unknown-to-the-UK-until-now firm Silence quietly (ahem) build nearly 10,000 self-designed leccy scoots a year. Silence has been going since 2012, but the bikes are only now arriving in the UK thanks to a new importer (www.silenceuk.com). The S01 is the firm’s flagship model and, performance-wise, it’s close to a 125. However, its party piece is that the entire 5.6k...

You can buy a CPx with one battery (£3654, 2020 price), or two (£4754). Each removable 2.7kWh unit is good for around 35-40 miles if you stick to 30mph or less (so 70-80 miles for the two-battery model). If you ride everywhere flat out, range drops to around 20 miles per battery. The CPx’s straight-line performance is shy of a typical 125 scooter, so it’s most at home making easy work of short city trips. Tasked doing just that, the single-battery option may well offer enough range to manage most daily cross-town commutes. That leaves the twin-battery version feeling like a tougher sell...

After Svartpilen 125, the Swedish bikemaker is working on the Vitpilen 125

Read about the Super Soco TS Street Hunter, a roadster styled version of the Italian brand's economical electric bike here.