The Govecs GO! is the scooter line of GOVECS, a German manufacturer of electric two-wheelers based in Munich. The company built its vehicles in its own factory in Wrocław, Poland, and sold the GO! both to private riders and, in a transport version, to delivery services and scooter-sharing fleets.
Govecs GO! at a glance
| Maker | GOVECS AG, Munich, Germany |
|---|---|
| Production | from 2011, in the company’s own plant in Wrocław, Poland |
| Class | electric scooter, 25 km/h and 45 km/h versions |
| Versions | GO! S1.2, S1.4, S2.4 and the transport GO! T2.4 |
| Awards | European Scooter of the Year 2011, 2012 and 2013 |
| eCarTec Award | 2011 (Bavarian state award), 2012 for the GO! S1.4 |
| Fleet customers | Cooltra, Scoot Network, Cityscoot |
| Markets | the United States and 17 European countries |
| Core markets | Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Benelux |
| Capacity | 20,000 scooters a year after the 2015 purchase of the Vectrix plant |
There is no separate Wikipedia page for the GO!: the model is described in the company articles, so this page uses the English and German GOVECS articles only.
History of the Govecs GO!
GOVECS was founded in 2009 in Munich by Thomas Grübel, Nicholas Holdcraft and Gerald Vollnhals. From 2010 the company had a cooperation agreement with Bosch, which offered vehicle service to GOVECS customers, and that service network mattered as much as the scooters themselves for buyers who ran small fleets. Production was set up in Wrocław, Poland, where the plant opened in 2013; all GOVECS vehicles were built there, whatever the market they were sold in.
The GO! was the name under which the transport version was sold: the same scooter offered to delivery services and rental operators, alongside the machines sold to private riders. The range used a letter and a number: S for the scooter versions, T for the transport version, with figures from 1.2 and 1.4 up to 2.4. The range was split by top speed: 25 km/h versions and 45 km/h versions, the latter winning the awards in their own category.
The line collected awards almost from the start. In 2011 the GO! S2.4 took the European Scooter of the Year title in the 45 km/h category, and GOVECS received the Bavarian state eCarTec Award for electric and hybrid mobility. In 2012 the GO! S2.4 won again in the 25 km/h category, the GO! T2.4 won the 45 km/h category, and the GO! S1.4 took the eCarTec Award in the “Electric vehicle: Motorcycle” class. In 2013 the European Scooter of the Year title went to the GO! S1.4 in the 25 km/h category.
Fleet business drove the company. In 2012 the Spanish rental firm Cooltra bought 500 scooters, and Barcelona became the first European city with a large-scale electric scooter rental service. From June 2015 GOVECS supplied 150 scooters to Scoot Network in San Francisco, and the French operator Cityscoot equipped its entire fleet with GOVECS machines; in 2019 business with such customers made up about 90 per cent of the company’s turnover. In July 2015 GOVECS also bought the manufacturing equipment of the electric scooter pioneer Vectrix, which had gone insolvent in Wrocław, raising output capacity to 20,000 scooters a year.
The GO! was marketed in the United States and 17 European countries, with Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and the Benelux countries as the core markets. Sales of the whole range peaked at 4,797 scooters in 2019 and fell to 1,443 in 2021, while turnover dropped from 29.3 million euros in 2018 to about 4 million euros in 2021. GOVECS filed for insolvency on 24 November 2025, and operations, service and warranty support for its vehicles ended late that year.
Design and features
- Two speed classes: 25 km/h and 45 km/h versions, the faster ones judged in a separate award category.
- Transport version: the T models were sold as delivery scooters, the S models to private riders and rental fleets.
- German engineering, Polish production: designed and run from Munich, built entirely in the company’s own Wrocław factory.
- Service through Bosch: from 2010 the Bosch network handled servicing for GOVECS customers.
- Fleet credibility: Cooltra, Scoot Network and Cityscoot all ran the scooters in sharing and rental service.
Govecs GO! versions
- GO! S1.2: the smallest of the numbered scooter versions, named in the original Govecs 1.2 record.
- GO! S1.4: 25 km/h scooter, European Scooter of the Year 2013 and eCarTec Award winner in 2012.
- GO! S2.4: the most decorated version, European Scooter of the Year in both 2011 (45 km/h) and 2012 (25 km/h).
- GO! T2.4: the 45 km/h transport version, European Scooter of the Year 2012 in its category.
- 3.4: a later, larger scooter of the same family, shown in road tests together with the 1.4.
More electric two-wheelers are in the Govecs collection. Background on how scooters are classified is in our articles.
Video: TEST | Scooters électriques GOVECS 3.4 & 1.4
Video by MOTOR LIVE on YouTube.
Sources
- GOVECS, English Wikipedia: GO! brand, awards, plant, fleet customers, markets
- Govecs, German Wikipedia: company history, turnover and sales, insolvency