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German electric motorcycle startup Black Tea Motorbikes has entered preliminary insolvency administration. The news underscores once again the difficulty of building hardware from scratch, dealing a tough blow to the electric two-wheeler industry.
I want to look at this through numbers, not emotion. An electric two-wheeler startup collapsing isn't necessarily because the technology was inferior. More often, it's a case of never reaching the capital needed to ramp up production or the economies of scale needed for parts procurement. You can dream all you want about battery and motor performance, but if the cash to keep a factory running runs out, it's over. The Black Tea case shows the structural difficulty of this entire industry.
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Not my business, but I'm curious what happens to refunds for customers who already had orders placed.
Is "preliminary insolvency administration" something like Japan's civil rehabilitation proceedings?
This news really drives home just how hard it is to build a factory from scratch and actually get to mass production.
German electric bike startups have had a string of struggling headlines lately, it feels like.
It's not just Germany — EV bike startups everywhere seem to trip on the mass-production wall a lot.
"Preliminary" insolvency administration means there's still room for a turnaround, maybe? I'm curious about the follow-up.
Never heard the name Black Tea Motorbikes before, but I guess hardware startups really are tough.
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