Fuell's Future Fizzles: Assets Sold, Direction Unknown

The lights are dimming on Fuell, the electric two-wheeler company co-founded by Erik Buell. After filing for bankruptcy late last year, Fuell’s assets have been sold off for just $170,000 (£126,500 / €146,000) — loose change compared to the promises it made when it launched in 2019. The buyer? Undisclosed. And that says a lot.

Fuell's Flow Electric Motorcycle

Fuell was supposed to be Buell’s clean-slate return to innovation — a future-facing spin on the performance DNA that made his name in motorcycling. Instead, the brand leaves behind a half-finished legacy: the Fluid e-bike and the Flow electric motorcycle. Both ambitious on paper, both victims of missed timelines and thin demand. The Flow never made it past pre-production.

What Was Sold

The asset sale reportedly included Fuell’s trademarks, patents, remaining stock, and whatever was left of its production tooling. The fact that no established OEM or e-moto brand has come forward as the buyer hints at one of two things: either someone plans to quietly reboot it, or it’s destined to be stripped for parts—literally and metaphorically.

What's Next? If Anything

Fuell's demised Electric Line-up

For Erik Buell, this closes the only real electric chapter in his long, complex story. His other companies — Buell Motorcycles and the remnants of EBR — still run on petrol. Fuell was the lone attempt to go fully electric. Now, that experiment's over, and the silence from both Buell and the mystery buyer suggests it may stay that way for a while.

If there’s a takeaway here, it’s this: anyone can misread the EV moment. The Fuell idea was right — urban electric mobility with edge — but execution, funding, and timing weren’t. Until someone new steps in with a plan, Fuell is just another name on the growing list of start-ups that ran out of charge before they ever hit the road.

Ride safe, folks.