Ultraviolette Is Coming for the Electric Motorcycle Market
Ultraviolette has told Buck City Biker that the X-47 is heading for Europe, giving the Indian electric motorcycle maker another model for its international push.
The news comes as Ultraviolette's sales start moving, a new factory is being built and the company has just raised another $85 million to fund its next stage of growth.
For more Ultraviolette news, visit our Ultraviolette page.
The X-47 is Heading for Europe
In a conversation with Ultraviolette's team this week, it confirmed to BCB that the X-47 has Europe firmly on its radar, excuse the pun, and that it hopes to start the rollout in the coming months.
For anyone who hasn't been following the X-47, it's a 40hp crossover with a claimed 90mph top speed, 10.3kWh battery and Ultraviolette's UV Hypersense radar system fitted as standard across the X-47 range.
The radar uses a 77GHz sensor with a claimed monitoring distance of around 200 metres and is used for features including blind-spot monitoring, collision alerts, overtake alerts and lane-change assistance.
Ultraviolette also told BCB about putting the X-47 through its paces in the Himalayas, with temperatures ranging from 45°C heat down to -15°C cold. It says the bike handled the conditions and continued charging without issues.
Either way, it's a fairly serious amount of technology sitting between your legs. We got to spend some time with the X-47 at EICMA 2025, and it certainly looks and feels the part. The big question for European riders is how much of that X-47 package makes it into the European version. We'll find out as Ultraviolette gets the bike ready for this market.
183 X-47s Have Just Gone to the Police
While European riders are waiting to find out when they can get their hands on one, Ultraviolette has already found another customer for the X-47. The company has handed over 183 X-47 Skyforce motorcycles to Kolkata Police in India.
The Skyforce is based on the standard X-47 but has been modified for police work. It gets a reworked electrical system supporting sirens, hooter alarms and a public-address system, along with microphone and radio holders and side panniers.
The underlying motorcycle retains a claimed 145km/h top speed and 211km IDC range. We see a lot of manufacturers target military and police forces with their bikes, and that alone isn't proof that the X-47 is indestructible. However, a sizeable working fleet actually putting the bike to work is a different proposition from another shiny prototype sitting under bright lights at a motor show. It's a useful indication of what the X-47 can actually do.
Sales are Moving Fast
The numbers are still small compared with India's big electric scooter manufacturers. But they're moving quickly.
Ultraviolette registered 694 motorcycles in July 2026, its best monthly result to date and a 406% increase on the 137 motorcycles it sold in July 2025. The company had sold 3,200 motorcycles in 2026 by August 12, taking cumulative sales since it started selling in 2023 to 5,473.
The X-47 is doing most of the heavy lifting. Wholesale data from June showed 653 Ultraviolette motorcycles dispatched, with 570 of them being X-47s. That's almost 90% of the company's wholesale volume for the month, showing this is already a volume bike for Ultraviolette in India rather than an expensive technology demonstrator. That's useful context when we start talking about bringing it to Europe.
The F77 is Playing a Different Game
There's another part of the Ultraviolette story that deserves attention. The F77 Mach 2 is currently listed in Europe from around €9,990. It gets a 10.3kWh battery, 40hp peak output and a claimed 144-mile WMTC range, with a 155km/h top speed. Ultraviolette describes it as one of the fastest electric motorcycles available in India.
That's not just a headline number. The F77 has a 30kW motor, 100Nm of peak torque, four levels of traction control, dual-channel ABS and a claimed 0-60km/h time of 2.8 seconds. Ultraviolette also calls its 10.3kWh battery the largest battery pack in India.
That price puts it in a very different conversation from the difficult £20,000-plus electric motorcycles we've been looking at recently.
We're not going to pretend that a €9,990 motorcycle automatically solves the electric motorcycle industry's problems. But there is something worth watching here. Ultraviolette is trying to sell electric motorcycles at prices that look a lot more realistic, while simultaneously adding more models rather than simply pushing the price of each one higher.
For the F77 spec sheet, visit our F77 spec sheet page.
Then it Built the BIGGA Factory
We've been talking numbers, let's get even more bonkers. Earlier this month Ultraviolette announced its new BIGGA Factory in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
The company plans to invest ₹779 crore, around $82 million, over five years, with the facility initially ramping towards 250,000 vehicles a year and infrastructure designed to scale to 500,000.
It will operate alongside Ultraviolette's existing Bengaluru facility and is expected to build the Tesseract electric scooter as well as future models across several segments.
Now put that alongside 694 motorcycles in July. That's one hell of a gap. But Ultraviolette isn't building BIGGA for the sales figures it has today. The company says demand for its upcoming models is already beyond what its current facility can handle, with the Tesseract alone reportedly having more than 70,000 paid bookings. The new plant is intended to support that move into higher-volume products. That's the bet Ultraviolette is making.
Now it Has Another $85 Million
In September, Ultraviolette announced an $85 million funding round led by Yali Capital and TDK Ventures, with investment from existing backers and Lip-Bu Tan, chairman of Walden International.
Tan has also joined Ultraviolette as an adviser. The money will be used to scale production of the F77 and X-47, develop the upcoming Tesseract and Shockwave, and work on the company's next-generation global EV platforms.
Going Global Means More Than Shipping Bikes
Our X-47 news lands at a pretty important moment for the company. Ultraviolette told BCB it wants to take its international expansion one step at a time, making sure it has the infrastructure to properly support riders in each new market.
Ultraviolette currently says it sells motorcycles in India and 20 European countries, with the US now targeted for 2027 alongside further expansion into Latin America and Southeast Asia.
That's the approach Ultraviolette says it has taken in India, where it now has around 50 stores across 50 cities. The company wants to build that same level of support as it enters new markets, rather than simply shipping motorcycles and figuring out the aftercare later.
That's less exciting than announcing another new motorcycle, but it's the sort of stuff that matters once the shiny new bike is sitting in your garage and needs a service, a replacement part or someone who actually knows how to fix it.
The BCB Take
Let's not get carried away. Ultraviolette isn't selling hundreds of thousands of motorcycles. Its July figure was 694, and the company still has a very long way to go before it becomes a major global motorcycle manufacturer.
But 694 bikes in a month is still a serious number in this industry. LiveWire, one of the best-known dedicated electric motorcycle brands, sold 653 electric motorcycles across the whole of 2025. Ultraviolette beat that figure in a single month.
Look at what's happening around those numbers. The X-47 is becoming a major part of its sales. It's going to Europe. Police are already using it. The F77 is available in Europe already for under €10,000. Sales are climbing. A factory capable of producing 250,000 vehicles a year is being built, with room for half a million.
And now there's another $85 million behind the whole thing. None of that guarantees Ultraviolette will crack the global motorcycle market. But it does give the company something plenty of electric motorcycle manufacturers have struggled to build. Momentum.
The next question is whether Ultraviolette can turn all that technology, money and factory capacity into motorcycles riders actually want to throw a leg over. If the X-47 makes it into Europe and starts doing the same job here that it is doing in India, we'll have a much better idea.
Ride safe, folks.
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