Pictured naked above, the Horwin Senmenti 0
Horwin announced the production of their 200 kmh Senmenti 0 and a collaboration with a leading custom bike builder at EICMA.
The Sementi 0 was announced as a concept in Milan 2022 and the order books opened at EICMA last week. It was also announced that the Chinese scooter manufacturer has teamed up with Arjan Van Der Boom, founder of Ironwood Custom Motorcycles, to produce a rider-developed, limited edition custom version of the high-performance Senmeti 0.
Price and availability
Prices for the Senmenti start at €14,900 (excluding VAT). The custom-tuned edition will begin production in 2024.
Senmenti highlights
- Top speed 200 kph (124 mph)
- 300 km range
- 0-100 kph in less than 3 seconds
- 16.2 kWh battery
- 2000 watts of useful power for work/entertainment/camping
- Over 30 sensors and cameras
- Wave radar for collision warnings/blind spot monitoring
- Climb and descent assist
- Adaptive cruise control
Project Horizon
Horwin and Arjan will collaborate with European riders in a new initiative to explore, test and develop new innovative products under the Project Horizon banner. Some of their community activities will include…
- Curation of emerging E-Mobility technology and e-mobility support resources like public charging facilities
- Design and planning of local product and e-mobility events
- Collaborative R&D of new product concepts and features
- Collaborative pre-production design and prototype testing — driven by member evaluation and review
- Exclusive and/or early access to custom collaboration products and limited editions
Horwin founder explains more
Speaking at the EICMA press conference, Mr Wendsor Zhou, founder and CEO of Horwin Group (pictured above) explained, “Project Horizon is a natural extension of our mission to accelerate society’s journey to a sustainable future – working together with the rider communities to improve two-wheeled mobility while reducing its impact on the environment.”
Fresh perspective
Mr. Kevin Liu, co-founder and COO of Horwin Group added, “To create products for the sustainable future, we must defy the old, closed system of developing products in isolation of the riders and the communities that will benefit from them. We’re partnering with experts and riders like Arjan who bring a fresh perspective to products, and with mobility innovators to ensure that our work goes well beyond making better products to making the world around us better overall.”
Senmenti 11
Shown as a concept this year, the Senmenti 11 is looking towards the future of autonomous driving and in this case riding. We’ll quote from the press release for this Mad Max-style machine…
“For two-wheeled vehicles to be capable of autonomous driving, they must integrate self-balancing technology. Without losing the flexibility and lightness of a motorbike. Using the mass of the three-electric system, which accounts for the largest proportion of the vehicle body weight, we combine it with the power of the motor as the source of anti-torque.
It doesn’t require additional mass or additional power systems. Using specially designed intelligent algorithms, the bike distributes power to adjust the balance dynamically.
At low speeds, most of the power is deployed for self-balancing to keep the bike upright. At higher speeds, when the bike balances more naturally, most of the power is deployed to move it forward.
This design does not add extra weight or require additional power systems — enabling us to make the bike self-balancing without extra expense or losing the flexibility and lightness.
Ultimately overcoming the common limitation of two-wheeled vehicles.
This type of revolutionary thinking does not stop with SENMENTI. We are not just making world-class products, we’re focusing on world-changing ones. We’re defying definition.”
Split wheel technology
To defy the laws of physics (and reality), Senmenti 11 uses split rear wheel technology. This prevents it falling over at slow speeds, or even whilst standing still!
Let us know what you think?
If the thought of being driven in an autonomous car scares you, how would you feel about being sat on a scooter or bike in the future and literally being the passenger whilst it rides itself?
Are they actually mad.