BMW’s Chinese Manufacturing Partner Is Cooking Up An Electric ATV Menace

This thing has dirt-moving energy and a very suspicious amount of torque.

Photo by: Loncin Industries

By: Enrico Punsalang

Jul 5, at 8:14am ET

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Electric ATVs are getting harder to dismiss as novelty machines built for farm demos, trade show booths, and people who enjoy explaining voltage at parties. The category is still young, still weird, and still trying to prove it can do dirty work without dragging a gas engine along for moral support. But when Loncin starts filing updated designs for an electric ATV based on its X-Wolf EV10 concept, it’s worth paying attention, because this isn’t some mystery company whipping up some vaporware.

In case you didn't know, Loncin is a huge Chinese manufacturer with a long motorcycle history, a working relationship with BMW, and a much more polished export-market brand in Voge.

Depending on where you live, you may know Voge for adventure bikes, scooters, nakeds, and middleweight machines that look increasingly less like budget alternatives and more like actual competition. This is why the EV10 story is more interesting than “Chinese brand makes electric quad.” Loncin has the scale, supplier network, and manufacturing experience to turn a concept into something real.

Photo by: Loncin Industries

The X-Wolf EV10 first showed up in 2024 as an all-electric ATV with numbers that are sure to raise some eyebrows. Loncin claimed a 291-volt electrical system, a 14.5-kWh lithium-ion battery, a full charge in less than three hours, and 1,548 pound-feet of torque sent through all four wheels. That last figure is the one that gets everyone’s attention, but it needs context. EV torque numbers can get wild depending on where they’re measured, and gearing can make them sound even more absurd. Still, even with the usual EV math caveats, that’s a lot of twist for something with handlebars.

Now, the latest scoop when it comes to this concept comes in the form of new design filings unearthed by the folks at UTV Driver. The updated designs suggest the EV10 has moved beyond its first show-floor form. The machine keeps the same basic attitude, but the details have changed almost everywhere. The front fascia has been revised, the lighting has been cleaned up, the rear end gets a new taillight setup, and the proportions appear longer than before.

Photo by: Loncin Industries

The wheels are probably the most telling change. The earlier prototype used a simpler five-spoke design, while the newer version gets eight split spokes and beadlocks. There are other small production-minded details, too. The newer version appears to use a more conventional tubular handlebar setup with a central clamp, rather than the fancier cast arrangement on the original prototype.

Electric ATVs have obvious advantages on paper: instant torque, fewer fluids, less noise, and power delivery that should work beautifully in low-speed technical terrain. The problem is that ATV buyers also care about durability, range, charging, service access, and whether the machine will still behave after a few years of mud, heat, cold, abuse, and somebody’s questionable trailer tie-down technique. Building trust in this segment is harder than launching a flashy spec sheet.

Photos by: Loncin Industries

That being said, Loncin might be better positioned than it looks from an off-road perspective. It already sells gas-powered XWolf ATVs and UWolf side-by-sides, so it isn’t arriving from a totally unrelated corner of the vehicle world. Add in its BMW-linked manufacturing history and Voge’s growing presence in Europe and Asia, and the EV10 starts to look less like a random experiment and more like the next step in a larger powersports push.

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That doesn’t mean Americans should expect one at the nearest dealer tomorrow. Filings don’t equal a launch, and design patents don’t tell us pricing, range, availability, towing capacity, payload, warranty support, or how the thing behaves after being treated like rental equipment. But they do show movement. Loncin isn’t just letting the EV10 sit as a one-time concept with a silly torque number and a dramatic face.

If this reaches production, it could become one of the more interesting electric ATV entries yet, not because it’s the flashiest, but because Loncin has the boring industrial stuff that actually matters. The electric off-road space doesn’t need more promises. It needs machines from companies that can build, ship, support, and improve them.