Electric brand Stark seeks to dominate on and off road
Electric motorcycle company Stark Future seems to be going from strength to strength.
Swedish-Spanish electric motorcycle company Stark Future seems to be on a tear at the moment. Hot off the news of its posting record profits earlier this year it is set to compete in a number of off-road competitions and is reportedly working on an on-road model.
Speaking recently to MCN, Stark Future founder and CEO Anton Wass said that he believes his company is capable of delivering road-going motorcycles that are “significantly better” than petrol-powered motorcycles “in all the main categories.”
That’s a bold claim. And Wass is less forthcoming about when Stark actually plans to deliver said road bike.
In the meantime, the company is also focusing on what it already does well: electric dirtbikes.
The company’s Varg motocross machine has been earning kudos since its unveiling roughly four years ago. Relatively lightweight and powerful, the electric vehicle resolves one of the big issues that offroaders face: noise.
More often than not, noise is the main reason that nearby residents complain about off-road riding centres or dirtbike tracks.
But Stark aren’t just making bikes that can keep the grandmas happy. It’s also aiming to seriously compete. Last week, for example, the FIM World Supercross Championship announced that a Stark Future team would be taking part in the 2025 World Supercross Championship.
According to a media release, “Stark Future will compete alongside and against some of the most well-known, experienced teams in supercross.”
In other words, its team will be competing not just against other electric bikes. The goal, according to Wass, is to “prove that electric belongs on the same stage as combustion engines.”
“We’re here to compete at the very top level,” Wass continued. “We know we’re fast out the gate, so it’s going to be a really exciting challenge to be out there racing the best teams and riders the sport has to offer.””
The 2025 World Supercross season kicks off with the Malaysian GP in Kuala Lumpur on 18 October.
This is in addition to the news we shared back in March about Stark’s planned participation in a new electric-only class in the Motocross World Championship’s 2026 season.
Although, Stark has said that it would prefer to compete against petrol machines, as it intends to do in World Supercross. It may be that in the wake of the World Supercross news, Stark will get its wish and be allowed to compete in the usual MXGP series.
Away from the dirt, meanwhile, Stark will have a big mountain to climb. Motorcyclists don’t tend to embrace big changes with enthusiasm, so even if the company really is able to deliver a street bike that legitimately competes against ICE-driven rivals, it may still struggle to find enough buyers.
Chris Cope is a fourth-generation journalist, originally from Texas. He has lived in the UK for roughly two decades and has been writing about motorcycles for most of that time. He has written for dozens of publications and websites in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.
