Enyring launches e-bike with battery subscription service

In early 2024, Yamaha Motor founded the company Enyring to offer exchangeable batteries for compact urban electric vehicles, mainly electric bicycles, as part of a subscription service together with partners. Enyring has now announced the launch of its e-bike series with a battery subscription service in Berlin and Amsterdam from the fourth quarter of 2025. The idea is for customers to save on the battery, which is then managed via an upcoming battery swapping network. All bike models are compatible with the same 480Wh, 48V batteries.

As Enyring writes, both cities will see battery swap stations installed within a radius of around 2 km in their respective city centres, enabling a seamless driving experience with no downtime. “A detailed map of these locations will be available shortly,” the bike manufacturer added. Specifically, about 40 battery swapping stations are to be built in Berlin, with Amsterdam to see 20 such facilities. The swapping process is advertised as taking less than 20 seconds.

According to Enyring, the battery swapping stations automatically adapt the charging speed to the demand and carry out a complete health check of the battery with every charging cycle, in order to guarantee higher reliability. There is also already a plan in place for batteries that are no longer capable of powering the bikes: “Batteries that are no longer suitable for e-bike use are reused or recycled, which supports ENYRING’s commitment to sustainable mobility,” the manufacturer wrote in a press release.

The four e-bike models include a city bike, a more sporty city bike variant, a longtail e-bike and a cargo bike. The models are named ER/01 through ER/04, respectively. Prices for the e-bikes themselves or the battery swapping subscription have not been announced, but considering that the introduction of the venture only took place last weekend at the VELO Berlin, we expect more details over the course of the year. A request for information to Enyring has not been answered as of the time of this publication.

Yamaha founded Enyring in December 2023 and raised its investment stakes to a total of €27 million in 2024. The first collaboration has also already been announced, with Swobbee partnering up with Enyring, in order to provide “both hardware and key battery swapping software components for ENYRING’s upcoming swappable battery platform.” Swobbee also aims to reduce operating costs and environmental impact using Enyring’s closed-loop battery swapping approach.

This is also not the first collaboration between Yamaha and Swobbee, as Swobbee already powers a shared e-moped rental service using Yamaha’s NEO electric scooters in Berlin. Swobee had also revealed its battery-swapping network intentions back in 2022, when the company closed a major investment round.

enyring.eu (in German), innoenergy.com (Swobbee)