It was introduced at the 2017 Tokyo Auto Show to power the Honda PCX Electric and has since been adopted by the Swappable Battery Motorcycle Consortium formed by many motorcycle and scooter manufacturers, including Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha.
Prior electric scooters previously marketed by Honda, including the CUV-ES (1994) and EV-neo (2009) used a high-voltage traction battery integral to the vehicle; in contrast, the 2018 PCX Electric was based on the conventional PCX scooter, equipped with an electric traction motor and removable storage battery which was intended to enable more rapid recharging to support realistic uses through battery swapping.
[1]: 57–58 In 2021, an updated Mobile Power Pack e: (DM5026Z) was released with an increased maximum storage capacity of 26.1 A-h (1,314 W-h at 50.26 V).
[6] Honda envision that battery swapping stations built around charging banks of MPPs can be used to store energy when production from renewable sources is high and electric demand is low.
[2] For the trials in Indonesia, Honda, Panasonic, and Pacific Consultants, Ltd. established a joint venture.