The DAB Motor CONCEPT-E electric motorcycle is sleek and minimalist, silently redefining the commuter bike with supermoto styling.

The revolution unfolding across the automotive industry is well established and covered, with nearly every month offering new models lining up across the electrified horizon. But there’s also a design renaissance of sorts happening within the category of motorcycles as two-wheelers also transition away from the traditional gas-powered engine. Case in point: the DAB Motor CONCEPT-E arrives as company’s first electric motorcycle with a sleek and minimalist silhouette that silently redefines the commuter bike with supermoto styling.

Designed in partnership with industrial design agency Outercraft, whose previous experience crafting the Coleen electric bicycle undoubtedly aided in the design of the more significant CONCEPT-E design, is based upon the dynamic of horizontal and oblique lines visible across this lightweight urban commuter’s form. Paired with DAB Motors?s characteristic “flying back” silhouette, the sum of these design details offer an appearance of speed alongside lightness, culminating at the rear of the motorcycle’s sharply angled back, topped with a saddle made with Ripstop, an extremely durable textile typically used for yacht sails and technical clothing.
Perhaps the most divisive design detail is the tablet-like front housing a wide headlight.

With a 10 kW motor and 51.8V li-ion ba...