MotoE Hit the Brakes: Indefinite Hiatus Confirmed After 2025 Season

FIM MotoE

The MotoE World Championship is going dark. After seven seasons on the calendar, FIM and Dorna have confirmed that the all-electric racing series will go on indefinite hiatus once the 2025 season wraps. The official line? MotoE never gained enough traction with fans, and the high-performance electric bike market hasn’t delivered the growth the organisers were banking on.

It’s a tough pill for e-moto enthusiasts. MotoE debuted in 2019 with six races across four rounds, promising a bold step into the future of two-wheeled competition. Ducati took over as the spec manufacturer in 2023 with its V21L, providing a serious platform that showed electric bikes could run with proper pace and corner speed. Despite that, the series struggled to break out of the shadows of its bigger petrol-fuelled siblings. Shorter race distances and limited on-track spectacle never helped the optics.

MotoE’s Ducati V21L Control Bike

The 2025 season will finish as planned, after which the paddock will pack up until further notice. The FIM says they’ll continue to “monitor developments” in the electric motorcycle industry, leaving the door cracked for a return if battery tech, charging speed, or fan appetite make a major leap.

For now, though, the message is blunt: the grand experiment didn’t land. That doesn’t mean the work stops. Ducati will keep developing its electric platform, MotoGP is still pushing toward non-fossil fuels by 2027, and other forms of alternative tech—hybrids, hydrogen, whatever sticks—are lining up at the grid.

• The upside: the lessons from seven seasons of racing electric prototypes won’t vanish.

• The downside: fans who wanted to see a dedicated e-moto world championship will have to wait, maybe years.

MotoE’s pause feels less like a stumble and more like a reminder: building a real future for electric racing isn’t just about the bikes—it’s about whether the world’s ready to watch.

Ride safe, folks.