Top 10 Countries in Electric Scooter Production 2025
Electric scooter rankings are trickier than they look because the category itself is messy. Some sources mean seated electric scooters and e-mopeds, others mix in kick scooters, and many national statistics bundle scooters together with broader electric two-wheeler data. That is why the earlier draft overstated precision. A cleaner 2025 view is to rank countries by publicly visible production footprint: manufacturer scale, factory capacity, supplier depth, export orientation, and the strength of the domestic electric-scooter ecosystem.
On that basis, China remains the undisputed leader, India is the clearest second-tier manufacturing base, and Southeast Asia matters more than the earlier version suggested. Vietnam deserves a much stronger place in the discussion, while the old placement of the Netherlands as a top manufacturing country is not well supported by current public manufacturing evidence.
Because there is no single harmonized international database for country-level electric scooter output, the ranking below is a transparent analytical ranking for 2025 rather than a pretend exact census of every unit produced worldwide.
Top 10 countries in electric scooter production, 2025
The hierarchy is very top-heavy. China and India sit well above everyone else in manufacturing scale. After that comes a more fragmented second tier made up of specialist scooter countries, premium urban-mobility producers, and assembly hubs that matter regionally even if they do not approach Chinese or Indian volume.
Analytical production footprint index for 2025. It reflects public manufacturer evidence, plant scale, assembly depth, export relevance, and ecosystem maturity. It is not an official global unit count.
Table. Best-supported 2025 ranking
| Rank | Country | 2025 production profile | Evidence anchor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | Still the global center of gravity for electric scooters, electric two-wheelers, batteries, controllers, and export-oriented OEM manufacturing. | Yadea alone reported about 3.93 million electric scooters sold in 2024, before adding output from Segway-Ninebot, NIU, and many other Chinese makers. |
| 2 | India | Fastest-scaling major assembly base, supported by subsidies, local supplier localization, and a large domestic scooter market. | Ola delivered 359,221 units in FY25; Bajaj sold 260,033 Chetak EVs in FY2025; Ather sold 109,577 E2Ws in FY2024 and had 420,000 units of annual installed E2W capacity. |
| 3 | Vietnam | The strongest Southeast Asian manufacturing story in this segment, led by an integrated domestic EV champion and expanding regional ambitions. | VinFast states that its Hai Phong complex has capacity to assemble up to 1 million e-scooters annually. |
| 4 | Taiwan | Smaller than the earlier draft implied, but still one of the most important electric-scooter ecosystems because of battery swapping, software integration, and urban scooter specialization. | Gogoro remains the reference name in battery swapping and Taiwan stays a core engineering market even as total scooter demand softened in 2024–2025. |
| 5 | Italy | A long-standing scooter manufacturing hub with premium and commuter relevance through the Piaggio/Vespa family and related two-wheeler production. | Piaggio’s production network includes Italian scooter manufacturing in Pontedera and Scorzè, while its EV portfolio includes Vespa Elettrica and Piaggio 1. |
| 6 | Germany | Premium urban electric scooter production rather than mass-market scale, but still globally visible and technologically important. | BMW’s Berlin plant produces the CE 04 and remains the group’s complete motorcycle and scooter production site. |
| 7 | Spain | A specialist European EV-scooter base, especially in the urban premium segment. | Silence’s S01 is marketed as 100% made in Barcelona, making Spain one of the clearest dedicated e-scooter production stories in Europe. |
| 8 | Japan | Important because of OEM depth, battery-standardization work, and the Honda–Yamaha push into small urban electric models. | Honda agreed to supply Yamaha with electric Class-1 models based on the EM1 e: and BENLY e: platforms for the Japanese market. |
| 9 | Indonesia | An emerging assembly base with policy support, local-brand ambitions, and growing relevance as Southeast Asia electrifies two-wheel transport. | The local policy environment is explicitly geared toward electric motorcycles, while international scooter makers already use Indonesian assembly capacity. |
| 10 | France | Smaller than the Asian leaders but still relevant through legacy scooter engineering and domestic manufacturing know-how. | France remains visible via Peugeot Motocycles, even if its role is now more niche than volume-driven. |
The lower half of the ranking is tighter and more debatable than the top two positions. China and India are clear. Positions 5–10 are better read as a second tier of premium, specialist, and regional assembly hubs.
Methodology
This ranking uses the latest public 2024–2025 evidence as a proxy for a 2025 production picture. Instead of pretending that a perfect country-by-country unit dataset exists, the ranking combines five observable signals: manufacturer shipment scale, annual installed plant capacity, the depth of domestic scooter demand, export orientation, and the maturity of the supporting ecosystem such as battery swapping, local sourcing, and urban-mobility specialization.
Public annual reports and investor releases were used wherever possible, because that is where the most concrete numbers usually appear. That matters here: for example, Yadea discloses electric scooter volume, Ola discloses annual deliveries, Bajaj reports Chetak domestic sales, Ather discloses both sales and factory capacity, and VinFast publicly states e-scooter plant capacity. Those disclosures are more reliable than recycling generic market-blog estimates.
There are also hard limits. Many countries do not publish a clean “electric scooter production” line item. Some companies report scooters together with broader two-wheeler categories; others report sales rather than production; and many national datasets mix seated scooters with other electric motorcycles. That is why the article uses a transparent ranking framework and avoids fake precision for countries outside the top manufacturing core.
Insights and takeaways
The biggest correction to the old draft is that this is not a balanced global manufacturing map. It is a highly concentrated one. China is not merely first; it is first by a huge margin because it combines final assembly, component production, battery supply, scale manufacturing, and export-friendly cost structure in one place. Even if demand cools in one year, the industrial base remains far larger than anywhere else.
India is the most important challenger because it is not just assembling imported kits. It now has multiple scaled producers, strong policy support, and a domestic scooter culture large enough to sustain local factories. That makes India different from many European markets, where premium urban electric scooters matter but the total addressable production base is much smaller.
Southeast Asia also deserves more attention. Vietnam is especially important because it has both domestic demand and a named integrated producer with serious manufacturing ambition. Indonesia is less mature, but strategically important because it is trying to build an EV ecosystem around local assembly, policy incentives, and regional market potential.
Europe’s role is narrower but still meaningful. Italy, Germany, Spain and France matter through design, brand equity, engineering, premium manufacturing, and specialist urban products. What Europe does not currently match is China’s mass-market scale or India’s rapid volume ramp. In other words, Europe is strong in higher-value niches, not in global volume leadership.
What this means for readers
For consumers, the ranking explains why so many electric scooters sold globally are still tied to Chinese hardware, Indian assembly growth, or Asian battery supply chains. For investors and industry watchers, it shows where the real manufacturing gravity sits: not just where brands are famous, but where factories, cells, controllers, and local scale actually exist.
For policymakers, the lesson is simple. Becoming a meaningful electric scooter producer requires more than subsidies for buyers. It requires supplier localization, charging or battery-swapping logic that works in dense cities, and enough domestic scale to justify tooling and assembly investment. Countries that only support demand, but not production depth, usually remain import markets rather than manufacturing leaders.
FAQ
Because China is not only a brand base. It is also the deepest supplier base for batteries, motors, controllers, frames, and export-oriented scooter manufacturing. One company alone, Yadea, is already huge; the wider Chinese ecosystem is much bigger than any single-country rival.
The earlier version treated a strong urban-use market as if it were a major manufacturing base. Those are not the same thing. The Netherlands is influential in micromobility adoption and infrastructure, but current public manufacturing evidence does not justify placing it above countries with named factories, capacity disclosures, or much stronger OEM footprints.
Because Vietnam now has a credible industrial story, not just sales demand. VinFast’s published e-scooter capacity materially changes the picture and makes Vietnam more defensible in the top tier than many countries that are important only as consumer markets.
Because that would look precise while being methodologically weak. Outside a few companies and a few countries, public disclosures do not line up cleanly enough for a credible all-country unit table. Transparent estimation is better than false certainty.
It primarily follows the broader electric scooter and electric two-wheeler production story, while acknowledging that some company and market sources also cover kick scooters. That definitional overlap is one reason market-size headlines vary so much across reports.
China versus everyone else on cost and supply-chain depth, and India versus the rest of Asia on scalable domestic assembly. In Europe, the key question is not volume leadership but whether premium and specialist producers can defend margin and technology niches as Asian competition intensifies.
Primary sources
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Yadea Group Holdings Ltd. 2024 Annual Report (electric scooters volume and electric two-wheeler sales).
https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2025/0325/2025032500163.pdf -
Ola Electric FY25 press release (annual deliveries and market position).
https://cdn.olaelectric.com/sites/evdp/pages/investor/financials/q4/Ola_Electric_Mobility_Limited_Press_Release_Q4_FY25.pdf -
Bajaj Auto Annual Report 2024–25, Management Discussion & Analysis (Chetak domestic sales).
https://investors.bajajauto.com/ar25/management-discussion-analysis/ -
Ather Energy public offer documents (FY2024 sales, installed E2W capacity, market context).
https://media.atherenergy.com/Price-Band-Advertisement.pdf -
VinFast corporate profile (Hai Phong factory capacity for e-scooters).
https://vinfastauto.com/vn_en/about-vingroup -
Yamaha Motor news release on Honda OEM supply of electric Class-1 models based on EM1 e: and BENLY e: I.
https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2024/0808/oem.html -
BMW Group Plant Berlin / BMW Motorrad production references for CE 04 and scooter manufacturing.
https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0404004EN/bmw-berlin-marathon-starters-with-special-backgrounds-and-mission-visit-bmw-group-plant-berlin?language=en -
Piaggio Group sustainability statement and production network disclosures.
https://www.piaggiogroup.com/sites/default/files/documents/Annual%20Report%20_2024_Consolidated%20Sustainability%20Statement.pdf -
Silence S01 user manual (manufactured in Barcelona).
https://www.silence.eco/global/user-manual/UM-S01-MY25-ENG-V1-1---User-Manual-S01.pdf -
Grand View Research market references for broader electric scooters and narrower electric kick scooters categories.
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/electric-scooters-market
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/electric-kick-scooters-market
Source note: figures and placements use public company disclosures, government policy material, and category-specific industry references available by March 15, 2026. The article is intentionally conservative where the public record is incomplete.
