An IVVOA Spark rail on a seaside promenade with scooters and bicycles docked
News · 10 October 2026

Introducing IVVOA Spark.

Published · By Prof. Bassem Khafagy, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

One vehicle in five on Türkiye’s roads has two wheels. In August 2026, almost one in two new vehicles registered in the country had two wheels. And nobody was building charging for them.

When we began planning IVVOA, two wheelers were not in the plan. We were thinking about cars, about highways, about the Hub. Then we looked at what actually moves through a Turkish city at eight in the morning. The courier with a box on the back. The student on a scooter. The shopkeeper on a moped. The family on a motorcycle in a coastal town.

Spark is our answer. It is not a side project and not a smaller version of what we do for cars. It is a network designed around a different vehicle and a different habit: a small battery, a short trip, a stop measured in hours of work or study rather than kilometers of highway. A bicycle or kick scooter carries about half a kilowatt-hour of battery, a moped about two, a motorcycle between four and fifteen; a car carries about sixty. What a two wheeler needs from a public point is not power but place: a safe, weatherproof, metered socket where it already stops, with somewhere to lock the vehicle while it charges.

Spark carries the same promise as everything IVVOA builds: the rate shown before you plug in, an allowance stated in kilowatt-hours, clean energy you can see, and a point that works when you arrive. The allowance in kilowatt-hours matters more for two wheelers than for anyone. A time based offer would be worth very different amounts to a scooter and to a car. An energy based one is fair to both.

Why Türkiye, why now.

Türkiye is one of four countries, with China, India and Viet Nam, that together buy 95 percent of the world’s electric two and three wheelers, and it is the largest market for electric two wheelers in Europe. In 2025, electric models took 34 percent of the motorcycles and mopeds sold in the country, the highest share on record. Electric two wheelers here are not a forecast. They are already one in three of the vehicles of their kind sold each year, and every one of them has to be charged somewhere.

We are starting in Antalya because it has more motorcycles than any province in Türkiye except Istanbul. But Spark was designed to travel. A two wheeler point costs a small fraction of a car charger, which means it can be built in cities and countries where a car network could never be financed, and where two wheelers already carry much of the daily work.

Every rider deserves a place to charge that was built for them. That is what Spark is for.

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