Electric Vespa: 12.5% Is Not 17%

Vespa showed three electric scooters at EICMA on 3 November 2026. The note names the Primavera and the Sprint S as mopeds, both limited to 45 km/h, and the Primavera Tech as the motorcycle, limited to 67 km/h. Forty-five divided by 1.609 is 28.0 mph. Sixty-seven divided by 1.609 is 41.6 mph. Electrek printed 42 for the Tech and 28 for the mopeds. Forty-two is 41.6 rounded. None of the three has pedals. A low-speed electric bicycle is pedals and a motor under 750 watts. These are scooters. The class chart does not have a row for them. The other EICMA scooter already on this desk is the Yamaha NMAX E.

85 km is not a battery

Vespa’s note says the Primavera and the Sprint S reach 85 km. It does not print the word Eco on that sentence. Gazzetta, the same day, and Electrek on 9 November, both put the 85 km in Eco. Eighty-five divided by 1.609 is 52.8 miles. Electrek printed 53. That is the rounding. The battery sentence that follows, on Vespa’s note, is that the pack lifts out. Gazzetta and a later Italian write-up attach the lift-out pack to the 45 km/h pair. The Tech paragraph does not say the pack comes out. Do not move the handle onto the motorcycle because the mopeds have one. No voltage, no amp-hours, and no watt-hours are on any of these pages. Eighty-five kilometers with no tank is a distance claim. The range page is why a kilometer is not a watt-hour.

Seventeen percent less energy is not 12.5 percent more range, unless the pack also changed. Vespa did not print the pack.

12.5 percent is not 17 percent

On the Tech, Vespa says range is up 12.5 percent, energy consumption is down 17 percent, and the scooter covers 90 km on the WMTC cycle. Ninety divided by 1.609 is 55.9 miles. Electrek printed 56. Gazzetta adds a second Tech figure, 100 km in Eco, which is 62.2 miles. Electrek printed 62. If the 17 percent is a cut in energy used per kilometer, and the pack did not change size, the range would rise by 1 divided by 0.83. That is 1.205, about 20 percent, not 12.5. Twelve and a half and seventeen are two claims. They only meet if the pack changed, or if the 17 percent is something else. Electrek puts the 17 percent on the charger, as less energy from the wall, and adds a 0-to-80 percent charge of about 2.5 hours. Gazzetta puts the 17 percent on the motor and the Vehicle Management System, next to the 12.5 percent range. Vespa’s note says consumption is down 17 percent and does not say which of those it is. A 2.5-hour clock with no watt-hours is not a charge rate. The charge page is that distinction. If someone treats the 12.5 percent as landing on the 90 km, the earlier WMTC figure would be 90 divided by 1.125, which is 80 km. Vespa did not print 80. If it lands on the 100 km Eco line, the earlier Eco figure would be 88.9 km. Vespa did not print that either. Do not publish 80 as last year’s range.

The motor has no number

Piaggio builds the motor in Italy. The note says it is modular, it has no rare-earth parts, and the 45 km/h pair has more torque for pulling away. More torque is not a newton-meter. No watt is printed, nominal or peak. A speed sensor is mentioned. That is a sensor, not a power figure. Gazzetta adds a maintenance mode on the dash, to hold the pack when the scooter sits. Electrek says the same mode. Neither one prints a storage voltage.

The price is not on the note

Vespa’s 3 November note does not print a price. Electrek says the outgoing US Primavera Elettrica 70 RED was $8,299, and that the new tag is not out. A 6 November Italian page prints estimated bands, €5,190 to €5,490 for the 45 km/h pair and €6,290 to €6,690 for the Tech, and the page says estimated. A later note from the same site says the talk is about €5,000 to more than €6,500. An estimate is not a list. This desk will not convert those euros into a US price, and it will not average $8,299 with a guess. No public ride video of the 2027 range turned up. EICMA ran 5 to 8 November. A show floor is not a WMTC loop. This desk did not ride them.

Who they are for

The 45 km/h pair is the city scooter whose pack the note says lifts out, with 85 km on the page and no watt-hours under it. The Tech is the 41.6 mph motorcycle, 90 km WMTC, and a 100 km Eco line that Gazzetta printed and Vespa’s short note did not. Skip all three if you needed a Class 2 bicycle, a printed battery, or a price you can pay today. Twelve and a half percent more range and 17 percent less energy are not the same sentence until someone prints the pack. This desk did not ride them.