Winter is over and the 2025 MotoE season is ready to start this weekend with the French GP at Le Mans. Garzò, Casadei, Gutierrez, Ferrari and Granado, together with the other riders in the MotoE World Championship, are preparing to write a new chapter in the electric MotoGP class.
This weekend the iconic Le Mans circuit will host the French GP of MotoE, the first round of the MotoGP electric category for the 2025 season. What's new in this edition of MotoE?
Let's start with the calendar, which this year is spread over seven rounds and fourteen races from May to November, with the addition of the Balaton Park circuit. For the second time, the final round of the MotoGP Electric Championship will not be held at Misano. In 2020 the championship will end at Le Mans, while in 2025 it will be at Portimao.
On the rider front, all of last season's protagonists have been confirmed, while six rookies have been announced. Among them, the name of Lorenzo Baldassari, a very experienced rider, stands out. From the Northern Talent Cup come the Hungarian Tibor Erik Varga and the Romanian Jacopo Hosciuc.
2025 will see the debut of a new team in MotoE, the Rivacold Snipers Team, which will replace the Tech3 E-Racing team. The Italian team, which also competes in Moto3, has chosen Nicholas Spinelli, in his third season in MotoGP, and Hungarian rookie Tibor Erik Varga to make their debut in the electric class. There are also many new faces among the mechanics. No fewer than 2025 new technicians will make their debut in the MotoE paddock in 18.
These are the teams and riders of the MotoE World Championship 2025:
Dynavolt Intact GP: Hector Garzò and Lorenzo Baldassari
LCR E-Team: Mattia Casadei and Eric Granado
Felo Gresini MotoE rider: Matteo Ferrari and Alessio Finello
Aspar team: Jordi Torres and Kevin Zannoni
Rivacold Snipers Team: Nicholas Spinelli and Tibor Erik Varga
Ongetta Sic58 Squadra Corse: Tommaso Occhi and Raffaele Fusco
MSi: Oscar Gutierrez and Jacopo Hosciuc
Klint Forward Team: Maria Herrera and Andrea Mantovani
Aruba Cloud MotoE Team: Alessandro Zaccone and Luca Bernardi
The calendar and the race schedule of the MotoE 2025
Here are the dates and tracks of the calendar of the 2025 FIM MotoE World Championship:
- 9 / 10 May - French GP - Bugatti circuit at Le Mans
- 27 / 28 June - Dutch GP - TT Assen Circuit
- 15 / 16 August - Austrian GP - Red Bull Ring Circuit at Spielberg
– 22 / 23 August – Hungarian GP – Balaton Park Circuit
- 5/6 September - Catalan GP - Barcelona Circuit
- 12 / 13 September - San Marino GP - Marco Simoncelli Circuit of Misano
– 7 / 8 November – Portuguese GP – Algarve International Circuit
Still at Le Mans, the MotoE riders will have a final day of testing on Thursday before the official start of the races.
The weekend schedule is not changing in 2025. The MotoE always kicks off on Friday at 8:30 am with FP1, before a second session, FP2 at 12:25 pm. The combined times of FP1 and FP2 set the riders' entrants to Q1 and Q2, starting at 16:15 pm.
Saturday is show time for the MotoE World Championship: it's the day of the double race.
Race 1 starts at 12:15 pm, immediately after the qualifying session of MotoGP, and is the first race of the weekend. This is followed by the qualifying session of Moto3 and Moto2 and the MotoGP Sprint race.
Race 2 follows the MotoGP Sprint Race, with the lights going out for the second race of the weekend set for 16:10. It is a double event that gives the electric world incredible visibility and ensures fans from all over the world the best of this parallel path of sustainable innovation.
The technical innovations of the 2025 season
The main technical innovation of the championship concerns the Ducati V21L which will have a new battery, 8,2 kg lighter, thanks to new NCA cells with an energy density 10% higher than the cells used so far. The overall capacity of the battery remains unchanged, equal to 18 kWh, but the number of cells decreases, which go from 1152 to 960. As a direct consequence, the overall weight of the motorcycle decreases.
The new version of the Ducati MotoE for 2025 will therefore have a weight of just over 215 kg (216,2 kg to be exact) and lap times three to four tenths lower than those recorded last season.
The innovations, although important, are not limited to the battery pack alone. Other changes have been studied by Ducati to reduce weight and improve the range and performance of the V21L.
One of these concerns the rear rim. Up until now, a traditional rim designed for the assembly of rubber shock absorbers had been used. From 2025, the Ducati electric will mount a special rear rim that is slimmer and tapered in the hub area, without a shock absorber. This modification will reduce the weight by 0,6 kg and reduce the gyroscopic effect of the rear wheel. The chain will also be of a different type, lighter, more resistant and efficient, so the V21L will be able to deliver one more HP than the previous solution.
The geometry of the bike also changes slightly, as a result of two modifications: the horizontal advancement of the front wheel thanks to different steering bushings and the approach to the pivot of the rear tire. The bike is therefore 4 mm longer and with the central body further back. These modifications will bring significant advantages, especially in braking: in this phase, the bike will be more stable and will allow more incisive braking and more 'inside' the curve. All this without compromising traction during acceleration.
Significant changes have also been made to the electronic controls, thanks to the benefits of the development carried out by Ducati Corse in MotoGP. After the introduction of adaptive traction control with tire wear and new maps for ride-by-wire and engine braking in 2024, traction control by sectors will be added this year. This feature will allow riders to select a different traction control map for each of the four sectors into which the track is divided.
As for tires, Michelin will bring a further evolution of its tires made mostly with recycled and eco-sustainable materials. The percentage of these materials now exceeds 50% both at the front and rear.
Enel's farewell
At Le Mans, for the first time in the history of the MotoE, we will not see Enel technicians and their charging systems in the paddock. Enel has been a constant presence in the MotoE paddock since 2019. However, the Italian electricity company has decided to take a new path and invest in other types of sponsorship. This has led to the absence of the motorcycle recharging and energy management systems that Enel had provided in recent years to compensate for the shortcomings of the electricity networks at many of the circuits where the MotoE has raced.
From this year, in the paddock of the MotoE, we will see the battery chargers of Evesco, a company of the American group Power Sonic. These are industrial chargers available on the market, completely different from those of Enel, which were specifically designed and manufactured for the MotoE. Evesco chargers (EVMO Dual model) are smaller and lighter than those supplied by Enel and reduce the complexity of the paddock charging system. The electrical energy for the motorcycles will be supplied directly by the electrical system of the circuits on the calendar of the MotoE, thanks to an electrical line capable of transferring the 550 kW of peak power needed to recharge the motorcycles.
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