| Yadea | |
| Type: | Holding company |
| Hq Location: | Wuxi |
| Hq Location Country: | China |
| Key People: | Wang Jiazhong |
Yadea Group Holdings Ltd. is a Chinese manufacturer of electric bicycles, motorcycles, and scooters headquartered in Wuxi, China. The company owns seven production sites in China, in Wuxi, Tianjin, Cixi and Qingyuan, with development in Shanghai and Wuxi as well.
Yadea was established in 2001[1] and in 2020 the company was ranked second worldwide with 6 million two-wheelers sold.[2] The company is the world's largest manufacturer of electric scooters [2] and has around 340 employees that work in development.[1] In 2021, Yadea presented its own graphene batteries that also work at temperatures of −20 °C.[3] Also in 2021, Yadea presented four e-scooters in Germany, with the C-Umi reminiscent of the Vespa, and for the Yadea C1S they collaborated with an Austrian design agency (Kiska), and the G5 with higher-quality equipment..[2]
At the end of 2022, the Volt Guard VFV, another e-scooter[4] [5] and an electric light motorcycle Keenness VFD were presented at the EICMA; the latter delivers 10 kW (14 hp) and has a torque of 280 Nm.[6] After appearing at Eurobike in 2022,[7] Yadea launched its US market entry at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in 2023.[8] In mid-2023, Yadea and Porsche presented the VF F200 e-scooter, the design of which was created in collaboration with the Porsche Design Center.[9] So far, Yadea sells in 80 countries;[10] over 95 percent (5.7 million) of vehicles, including e-bikes,[11] are sold in China.[1]