This ‘sold-out’ street-legal electric motorcycle is also an electric snowmobile

It’s a tale as old as time. A man takes a ride on an electric motorcycle and thinks to himself, “This is great, but you know what it’s missing? The ability to morph into an electric snowmobile, too.”

Ok, perhaps it’s not the most common thought among us. But that hasn’t stopped it from apparently becoming a reality thanks to Canadian designer Steven Foster, who has now spent three years developing and testing that exact concept to bring the Avvenire Combat e-motorcycle to life.

The Toronto-based EV brand Avvenire, which was spun out of low-cost e-bike and mobility company Daymak, is preparing to launch the Combat Ebike, a 3-in-1 menace on tires…and on snowmobile tracks.

That’s right. This electric motorcycle is something of a shapeshifter, claiming to offer three different types of rides. The bike can be set up to run as a typical street-legal electric motorcycle, an off-road electric dirt bike, or a snowmobile. The last one does require a bit more work on the rear end, though, where the wheel is replaced by a snowmobile track mechanism.

“The Combat Bike can be a dirt bike, a snowmobile, and a street-legal bike, 100% electric—all in one at a reasonable price! It was something I’d always dreamed of. The 3 in 1 makes it an all-year vehicle,”
states Aldo Baiocchi, President of Avvenire Electric Vehicles International.

The company claims that the Founder Edition of the novel bike has already sold out, despite the internet being surprisingly devoid of mentions of the new bike… at least before the press release announcing how sold out it was.

Now Avvenire is offering pre-orders for the supposed next batch of bikes, with a $2,000 discount on the $9,999 MSRP for anyone who cares to take a big enough gulp and lay down a full payment. Fortunately, folks won’t have to wait long. The delivery date for those pre-orders is said to be later this month.

Hmm, with the delivery date of the regular production bikes so close, it almost seems like those Founder Edition bikes should already be out there somewhere.

Regardless, we can at least enjoy learning a bit about the specs on this new 3-in-1 electric motorbike. A 5,000W (7 hp) motor is said to power the bike up to a top speed of 37 mph (60 km/h). That might be closer to scooter-level performance, but you do get the ol’ leg-swinging-over-the-bike feel of a motorcycle.

There’s no word on how fast it travels when in snowmobile mode, but I’m guessing not quite 37 mph.

A 3.6 kWh lithium-ion battery sufficient for 43 miles (70 km) of road range “at top speed” powers the bike, which supports riders up to 285 lb (130 kg).

There isn’t much else available regarding the bike’s performance. We do have several images that appear a bit prototype-like, and Avvenire has often relied heavily on renders for its product images, similarly to the largely computer-generated teaser video launched to go along with the Combat Ebike “sold-out” announcement.

Electrek’s Take

I love the concept here. A single bike that you can ride on the street in the summer and in the snow during winter sounds like something out of a Canadian fairytale. I dig it.

But something seems a bit off about the whole thing. The supposedly “sold-out” bike doesn’t appear to have existed until we all learned it was sold out, many of the photos look like a prototype with flat panels, and the company’s website nearly has more mentions of investment opportunities than trying to sell its products.

I know they’re still trying to get that three-wheeled EV of theirs into production after several years of work, and that probably burns through capital, but this bike feels a bit like an early launch that is trying really hard to generate some really fast funds. And we’ve seen before how that can go sideways.