Savic C-Series Alpha 2025
Australia’s first electric road bike is finally here. We ride the long-awaited Savic C-Series Alpha to see how it stacks up in the real world
In a time when the recreational road bike sector supposedly isn’t ready for electric-powered machinery, a persistent Dennis Savic has just started delivering production versions of his C-Series Alpha to very patient customers.
It’s an outcome that the 34-year-old father of two has been dreaming about since he was just 14 years old. But automotive manufacturing doesn’t come easy to anyone in this country, let alone someone like Dennis who had very little experience in the sector and who had to sell his WRX in the early 2010s to get the ball rolling on what was then nothing more than a self-funded dream.
Fast-forward a decade or more and that persistence is finally beginning to pay off. With 16 full-time staff, a 1200-square-metre facility in China and a custom-built powertrain designed in-house, Savic Motorcycles has gone from scrappy startup to viable manufacturer. The goal is to be producing 20 bikes per month by September. If all goes to plan, the business will be unit-profitable by the end of 2025 and fully profitable within 18 months.
All that off the back of the C-Series Alpha, which we rode on a drizzly day through Melbourne’s inner suburbs.
