#29 Dennis Savic - Dream to reality: Designing & manufacturing your own high performance electric motorcycle

Futures Voices

As a 10-year-old boy, Dennis Savic wanted to build a motorcycle. Then, pretty soon, he decided: no, he wanted to build a motorcycle company. “By the time I was 14, it had become an obsession,” he says. “Everything I did was for this one goal – to create my own electric motorcycle brand.”

Today, Savic Motorcycles is all about obsession: the obsession of a young and passionate team that Dennis has handpicked for their capabilities to design and build Australia’s first high-performance electric motorbike. They are backed by some of the biggest brains in the automotive industry, including the CEOs of multinational joint ventures, techpreneurs who’ve launched multi-million- dollar start-ups, and engineers who have worked on World Championship-winning Formula 1 cars and air-racing teams.

But despite his impressive global alliances, Dennis’s engineering credentials stand on their own. By the age of 25, he had worked for two of Australia’s largest energy companies and was serving as Ford Australia’s optimisation engineer. Dennis resigned from automotive giant Ford so that he could pursue his dream. At just 28, he’s developed Savic Motorcycles into a thriving business, launched three successful capital-raisings, and appointed a team who share his passion and bring the vision to reality. In early 2021, despite the ravages of a major global pandemic, Dennis hopes to launch one of the most highly anticipated new vehicles to come out of Australia in recent years. Not bad for an Australian-Bosnian boy from Perth who dared to dream big.