Bafang

Company

A Suzhou Motor Maker That Ships Over a Million Hub Motors a Year

Bafang has built e-bike drives in Suzhou since 2003 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in November 2019.

Bafang Electric (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. has its head office, research and main factory in the Suzhou Industrial Park, where it moved in February 2022. It runs a second Chinese manufacturing base in Tianjin and a battery subsidiary, Bafang New Energy. The company had 1,005 employees at the end of 2025, 195 of them in research and development. Its shares trade on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under code 603489.

Outside China, Bafang opened a 6,000 square meter mid-drive assembly plant in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2019, a 14.4 million euro investment that started with the M400, M420 and M300 motors and assembles controllers and displays for Europe. Its European headquarters, set up in the Netherlands in 2012, moved in July 2025 to a new site in Cuijk about four times the size of the old one, with warehousing, repair and training. Sales and service offices cover the US, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Poland and Taiwan, and in February 2025 Bafang signed EMCB as its UK service agent.

Revenue fell by more than half from 2022 to 2024 as European and US dealers worked through excess e-bike stock. Profit recovered in 2025 on flat sales, and Bafang's July 2026 forecast credited the first-half jump to the end of overseas destocking and new customers. In 2025 it produced 1,067,338 hub motors, 179,081 mid-drives and 2,512,260 integrated wheel motors.

Lineup

Bafang Sells More Than 20 Motors, From 45 Nm City Hubs to a 170 Nm Cargo Mid-Drive

Figures are Bafang's own listings. Hub motor torque is measured at the wheel and does not compare directly with mid-drive torque. A dash means the figure was not confirmed.

The M510 replaced the M500 in 2022 with a magnesium housing and a segmented stator that cut 500 g; BIKE Magazin's first test on a Vitus E-Mythique LT found it climbed faster than a Bosch Performance CX and a Shimano EP8 at the same rider input. The RS versions shown at Eurobike 2025 and in production form at the Italian Bike Festival in September 2026 add a six-axis IMU for gradient detection, Hill Hold, Walk Assist 2.0 and up to 800% assistance; M510RS peak power is 1,100 W at 36 V and 1,300 W at 48 V, and M560RS peak power is 1,400 W and 1,700 W. The H730 and H700 hubs carry Bafang's GVT gear-variable transmission, and the H730 won a German Design Award 2026. The BBSHD and BBS02B figures come from US kit sellers.

Bike brands

US Direct-to-Consumer Brands and European Cargo Builders Fit Bafang Drives

Brands below are named in their own specifications or in trade-press reviews. Many more fit Bafang hubs without naming the motor.

Biktrix moved its fastest model, the 2,000 W Juggernaut XD, to an in-house motor. AIMA, the Chinese two-wheeler maker, brought its US e-bike dealer team to Bafang's Suzhou headquarters in December 2024. Bafang also sponsors the CST PostNL Bafang eMTB race team.

Legal classes

The Same Bafang Family Ships in EU Pedelec, US Class 1-3 and Over-Limit Versions

The motor version, its rated power and its programmed speed cutoff decide the bike's legal class.

The RS motors keep a 250 W rated output for EU type rules, but their 1,300 W and 1,700 W peaks sit far above street e-bike norms, and electrek describes them as eMTB motors. A bike built with a 1,000 W BBSHD kit exceeds the US federal 750 W e-bike definition and the EU 250 W pedelec limit, and the H650's 3,000-4,500 W peak puts a fat bike well into moped territory. Class 4 E-Bikes covers how those machines are treated on public roads.

Ecosystem

Bafang Supplies the Whole System Around the Motor

Bafang sells motors, controllers, displays, batteries and sensors as one kit, and its UK service agreement gives brands using the complete system priority service.

• Displays: DP C030.CA, a 1.9-inch TFT set into the top tube with ANT+ and Bluetooth; DP C245.CAN, a 1.9-inch TFT handlebar display with Bluetooth, automatic light control and a USB-C port; DP E180/E181 and DP C242 for the M510.
• Batteries: BT F161.B748.C, 36 V, 748 Wh; BT F380.B720.C, 36 V, 720 Wh; BT F200.D840.C, 48 V, 840 Wh; in-tube packs up to 960 Wh for the M510.
• Sensors: torque, cadence and wheel-speed sensing on mid-drives; the SR S03 speed sensor reads 42 pulses per revolution from the brake rotor; the RS motors add a six-axis IMU.
• Shifting: GVT automatic hub shifting in the H700 and H730, and the RG E510, a five-speed automatic and manual gear hub launched in May 2026 for mid-drives up to 120 Nm such as the M210, M410 and M430.
• Software: the Bafang Go and Go+ phone apps connect over Bluetooth to displays such as the DP C245 for ride data and assist settings.

Competition

The M560RS Reaches DJI Avinox Torque in Boost-to-Limit Mode

At 2.9 kg, the M510RS weighs the same as the Bosch Performance Line CX. Bafang's standard M510, listed at 95 Nm at launch, now carries a 110 Nm rating. Drive Systems compares all the flagship units.