{"id":12511,"date":"2025-07-14T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/scooter-design-continues-to-evolve-with-chinas-omo-x\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:33:13","slug":"scooter-design-continues-to-evolve-with-chinas-omo-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/scooter-design-continues-to-evolve-with-chinas-omo-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooter Design Continues to Evolve with China’s OMO X"},"content":{"rendered":"

At its core, a scooter is this:<\/p>\n

Honda Ruckus <\/em><\/p>\n

The form can be stylistically dressed up to offer a more classic Italian look\u2026<\/p>\n

Honda Metropolitan <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026or even to ape a Japanese superbike aesthetic:<\/p>\n

Honda ADV160 <\/em><\/p>\n

Those three are Hondas, chosen for presentation here because they’re the global leading producer of scooters. They’ve got roughly 40% of the two-wheeled market (which includes motorcycles) worldwide.<\/p>\n

Competitors exist, of course\u2014Suzuki, Yamaha, Piaggio to name a few\u2014and much of their offerings are often an ungainly mashup of aesthetics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As far as we’re concerned, it was BMW Motorrad who pushed scooter design into a new generation with their CE 04<\/a> in 2020. While all scooters have a deconstructed element to them, visually speaking, BMW’s designers made it look purposeful and aesthetically pleasing, with lines and angles that actually relate to one another. The overall look is anime-esque and cyberpunky.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honda may not have noticed\u2014with 20 million units in sales in the last year, they’re not exactly looking in the rearview mirror\u2014but another company has. Chinese startup Omoway<\/a>, formed by ex-employees of EV manufacturer Xpeng, have rolled out this sharp-looking OMO X<\/a>. In my opinion it takes what the CE 04’s designers did and refines it further.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honda dominates in India, the world’s largest scooter market. However, there’s another large scooter market in the region: Indonesia, where scooter sales are projected to hit $6.2 billion this year. Thus Omoway has set up shop there, unveiling the OMO X in Jakarta, where they’re setting up an Indonesian-government-backed production facility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The OMO X’s design is modular, with riders being able to click various storage units into the bike. The rearmost unit slides backwards to accommodate a passenger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The OMO X doesn’t just look hi-tech: The vehicle is self-balancing and autonomous. Meaning you can hop off of the vehicle, and ask it to go park itself. The company demonstrated the self-driving feature at the vehicle’s recent launch event:<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to having it park itself, you can also summon it via smartphone app.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Production is scheduled to begin later this year. I’ll be interested to see whether Honda’s design team finds the new aesthetic worth addressing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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