[Dormant] Electric Vehicles

Royal Enfield is a company that's been around for over a century. It started as a British company, and has a long and storied past, including a little lightweight machine designed to drop from the literal sky for RAF dispatch riders during WWII. After the war, the original Flying Flea found new life as a lightweight urban commuter as the country worked to get back on its feet.

The Flying Flea C6 is one of two new Flying Flea designs that Enfield first introduced to the world ahead of EICMA 2024. Technically, they're in Milan right now, but the event doesn't kick off in earnest (even for press) until November 5, and they've chosen to get out ahead of the scrum by launching it today.

Flying Flea isn't just a revived model badge for Royal Enfield in 2024. Instead, it's meant to be the company's new electric sub-brand, and to have an identity of its own. It even has its own social media channels, although the livestreamed press conference for the event was shown on the existing Royal Enfield YouTube channel.

What you're seeing here is the Flying Flea C6, which is the first production EV that Enfield will be releasing. It's meant to be a lightweight, nimble, urban-focused motorcycle; part of what Royal Enfield Managing Director Siddhartha Lal describes as "City Plus."

By that, he explained, he means a bike that shines in city riding, but that can also go beyond and offer a bit of fun on top of that. That's the intended ethos for all Flying Flea models, in fact.

Specs aren't available yet, so we can't offer opinions on them at this time; only the design. Given Enfield's track record of more than reasonable pricing for its gas models, though, it seems like a safe bet to think that Flying Flea will be priced much more in line with what riders want to pay than some other EV motorcycle brands.