Dianchè is a startup EV brand from Italy, officially launched in 2018 by the Italian mobility service company Flymove. The brand's core positioning is a Smart Mobility Platform, with product planning covering the full range of new energy mobility tools, from city micro-cars and all-electric supercars to vertical take-off and landing flying vehicles. The brand name Dianchè itself has no specific meaning in Italian, but the visual core of the brand—the badge composed of four hollow metal ovals—symbolizes the image of a butterfly with spread wings, carrying the brand's design philosophy of "lightweight, fast, and agile."
The brand's most recognizable technical highlight is Flymove's self-developed 3-minute rapid battery swap system, promising a battery swap solution "faster than refueling" to fundamentally solve the core pain point of long charging wait times for EVs. At the design level, Dianchè entered into a brand licensing cooperation with the legendary Italian design company Bertone, launching all models under the name "Dianchè by Bertone," intending to leverage Bertone's over-a-century-long automotive design heritage to inject a strong Italian sports car design legacy into the brand.
However, since its launch in late 2018, Dianchè has remained at the concept and prototype stage. The models originally scheduled for delivery in early 2020 never materialized. The parent company website, flymove.tech, is currently inaccessible, and the Dianchè brand was marked as "Cancelled" in the trademark database in December 2023, becoming an automotive brand that left no mass production records.
The Dianchè brand was launched under the lead of Flymove, a mobility technology company headquartered in Italy. Flymove is an enterprise group spanning car manufacturing, mobility service platform construction, and new energy infrastructure development, integrating over 10 companies from different fields of the automotive industry. Its overall planning covers the full closed loop from EV manufacturing and swap station network deployment to renewable energy self-supply systems. In 2018, Flymove obtained brand usage authorization from the legendary Italian design company Bertone through its partner AKKA Technologies. Bertone, founded by Nuccio Bertone, occupied an important position in automotive design history, but after declaring bankruptcy in 2014, its brand assets were acquired by the French engineering company AKKA Technologies. After obtaining Bertone brand authorization, Flymove decided to launch a new EV series under the name "Dianchè by Bertone."
On November 28, 2018, Flymove held an official launch event named "Flymove Dianchè – Beyond Mobility" in Milan, Italy, officially disclosing the Dianchè brand and its complete "Smart Mobility Platform" strategic blueprint to global media and investors. At the event, Flymove displayed three 1:1 scale prototypes: BSS GT One, BSS GT Cube, and BSS City Car Cube, and demonstrated the actual operating process of the 3-minute swap system. In January 2019, Dianchè made a high-profile debut at the North American Auto Show with three models, further pushing the brand into the international public eye.
After the brand launch, Flymove announced that two electric supercars, BSS GT One and BSS GT Cube, would accept reservations starting January 15, 2019, with each model limited to 9 units, planned for delivery launch in Italy in early 2020. Meanwhile, the city model BSS City Car Cube was scheduled to launch in early 2020, with a starting price set at €18,000. According to the brand planning at the time, Dianchè's vehicle lineup was not limited to these three launch models but also included additional city EVs, up to three sports models, the GT Two race version for the Pikes Peak challenge, and a charging network adopting hydrogen refueling technology. In addition, Flymove cooperated with the Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam to develop VTOL vertical take-off and landing aircraft for air mobility, incorporating Dianchè into an integrated land, sea, and air mobility ecosystem.
However, the above grand plan ended abruptly. Since 2019, Dianchè's mass production delivery schedule has been delayed repeatedly, and the actual delivery of the three models was not realized. Flymove's parent company's subsequent operations also gradually quieted down, and the official website, flymove.tech, along with associated sites, are no longer accessible. In December 2023, the DIANCHE trademark was recorded as "Cancelled" under Class 30 (food/beverage categories such as coffee, cocoa, etc.), with the Country of Origin field marked as "China," and the formal trademark status of the brand under the automotive category was not updated for a long time. As of 2026, there were no signs of the Dianchè brand restarting with a new look.
The Dianchè brand's product lines totaled three publicly known models, all of which remained at the prototype stage and none entered the mass production delivery phase.
Dianchè BSS City Car Cube: This is a three-seater all-electric micro-car positioned by the brand to meet future urban short-distance travel needs. It was the lowest-positioned and earliest planned model in the Dianchè product line. The body adopts a box-like cabin design, leaning towards a futuristic, tech-oriented boxy aesthetic. In terms of power, it is equipped with a rear-mounted motor of 48 hp (approximately 48 Ps), matched with a 30 kWh battery pack, offering a range of approximately 200 km on a single charge. The vehicle comes standard with Flymove's self-developed BSS rapid swap system, supporting battery replacement within 3 minutes. The vehicle was launched in Milan at the end of 2018 and was originally planned for launch in Europe in early 2020 at a price of around €18,000, but it was never actually mass-produced.
Dianchè Bertone BSS GT One: This was the brand's first all-electric supercar and also the best-known of the three models. Designed under the leadership of Bertone, the car features hard and sharp front-face lines, a distinct large four-ring badge, a low side profile, and a large rear wing, resulting in an overall aggressive appearance. The body is largely made of carbon fiber material to achieve lightweighting. The GT One is equipped with a front and rear dual-motor 4WD system, with total power exceeding 400 hp, 0-100 km/h acceleration in just 2.6 seconds, and a top speed of 300 km/h. Its 100 kWh battery pack, combined with the BSS swap system, allows for a full power swap in 3 minutes. The car was originally planned as a limited production run of 9 units, scheduled for delivery in Italy in early 2020, but this was never realized.
Dianchè Bertone BSS GT Cube: As the high-end version of the GT One, the GT Cube is more powerful. Built on the same 100 kWh battery and dual-motor 4WD architecture as the GT One, the GT Cube shortens the 0-100 km/h acceleration time to 2.2 seconds and increases the top speed to 350 km/h, aiming its performance at top electric supercars like the Tesla Roadster. This car was also planned for a limited production of 9 units, each being a customized limited edition, but failed to be delivered due to the overall suspension of the brand.
Dianchè has never had substantial market performance. Since its launch, no mass-produced vehicle has been officially delivered, nor has any vehicle sales revenue been obtained in the public market. The customer delivery plan originally scheduled to launch in early 2020 turned into water due to the overall suspension of the brand, the reservation channels of the three models were substantially closed without delivering any actual vehicles. The brand participated in the Hong Kong International Motor Show in 2019, displaying BSS GT One and other prototypes to the Asian market, but has left no sales records in mainstream automotive markets since then. As of 2026, Dianchè's actual vehicle ownership on the second-hand market and public roads is zero.
Battery Swap System (BSS): This is the most core technical proposition of the Dianchè brand. Flymove's self-developed BSS swap system compressed the battery replacement time to within 3 minutes, saving several times the time compared to traditional DC fast charging. The BSS technical route is more radical than the swap solutions proposed by brands like Tesla at an earlier stage—Flymove also planned to deploy swap station networks in Italy first, and set up mobile swap vehicles to provide high flexibility services, but this infrastructure plan also failed to land after the brand grounded. In addition, the brand also regards motorsports as a key display scenario for the BSS system, planning to build hydrogen refueling stations and swap system prototype stations first at the Adria Raceway, but the project did not make substantive progress.
Platformization and Lightweight Design: Dianchè's full range of models follow Smart Mobility Platform (SMP) architecture development, this architecture can simultaneously support city micro-cars, high-performance supercars, and even vertical take-off and landing aircraft and other different product forms. Among them, GT One and GT Cube heavily use carbon fiber body panels and aluminum alloy structures, assisting in improving range and acceleration performance through ultimate lightweighting.
The nominal headquarters of the Dianchè brand is in Italy, but the brand's operation and capital structure have certain Chinese capital backgrounds. The four-ring badge was once interpreted as "representing a close relationship between Flymove company and Chinese technical partners," and some public information even describes the brand as "an electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in China."
At the design level, the core designer of Dianchè models, Carlos Arroyo Turron, is the Vice President of the Milan Future Design Center, which is jointly operated by Flymove and AKKA Technologies, representing the brand's design and R&D capabilities in Europe.
In terms of actual overseas market expansion, Dianchè once air-freighted BSS GT One prototypes to Hong Kong for exhibition in 2019, which marked the brand's last formal international debut. The brand did not establish formal sales channels or delivery networks in any country, and its swap infrastructure remained only on paper.
As of 2026, the trademark status of the Dianchè brand is already "Cancelled," the parent company Flymove's official website is inaccessible, and all public channels related to the brand have stopped updating. Under the current landscape, the possibility of Dianchè launching a third round of brand restructuring is extremely low. The global EV market has entered a stage of high competition and rapid iteration, and the swap technology route has already seen brands like NIO achieve large-scale commercialization. The differentiation competition plan once carried by Dianchè—"3-minute swap + Italian design + supercar"—no longer has the time and capital window to re-enter the track. Dianchè's brand archive will be frozen as an ambitious media kit from 2018–2019 and an unredeemed mass production promise, becoming another failed sample in the global new energy vehicle startup wave of recent years that exited midway.
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