KTM
KTM Power Sports AG, one of the world's leading suppliers of motorsport vehicles, forms the roof over the KTM Group. Furthermore, KTM is Europe's second largest motorcycle supplier, as well as global market leader in the off-road motorcycle sector.
Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Pierer, Chairman of the Board of KTM Powersports AG, says: "We are convinced that, thanks to our vast competence in the areas which are important for this initiative, we're able to take on a leading role. And we see the Austrian Mobile Power platform as an additional, forward-looking field of operation for our company."
From the very beginning, KTM has stood for innovative and strong-performance off-road and road motorcycles, which can be used for both racing and leisure sports. In order to safeguard this performance guarantee, KTM is constantly meeting new challenges - it is not without reason that the company philosophy goes "Ready to Race"! A commitment that is rewarded by the customers: The company from Mattighofen, Upper Austria, is not only the largest off-road motorcycle producer in the world but also the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in Europe.
KTM presented the prototype of a "zero emission" bike as early as 2008. This is a noiseless and emissions-free Enduro motorcycle, which is not just of major significance for the medium-range future of Enduro sports - but also provides clear direction for the motorcycle technology of tomorrow. This completely new drive concept, which, together with "Arsenal Research", based in Vienna, makes KTM an electric motorcycle pioneer, is to go into series production in the very near future. However, as far as electrification is concerned, KTM does not plan to limit itself to two-wheelers. The development department already has several concepts for three- and four-wheel electric vehicles, which will urban mobility possible through other than traditional patterns.
The fact that KTM is a master of the subject "Automotive" was demonstrated in the automotive world no later than spring of 2008, when super-sports wagon X-BOW was presented at the Geneva Automobile Salon. From the beginning, the revolutionary vehicle was a success with its extreme design, but above all, through the utilization of technologies that first came into their own mainly in series automotive engineering, for instance, carbon fiber monocoque. Hence, the competence acquired in the area of high performance fiber-reinforced polymers (FRFs) is a key technology for the development of electric vehicles, which, in order to achieve the greatest possible efficiency, has to be constructed in as lightweight a fashion as possible.