Fresh from lifting the lid on their first-ever Automatic Manual Transmission (AMT), KTM has now dropped the cover on two all-new touchscreen TFT dashboards which will be joined by an updated handlebar switchgear and a new connectivity unit. 

Set to start debuting on 2025 KTM premium models, the next-gen display is available in landscape and portrait formats, namely the V80 vertical 8-inch display and the H88 horizontal 8.8 inch version. Notably, their 1280 x 720 resolution TFT dashboard now features newly developed inductive touchscreen functionality, with bonded screen technology. This includes Anti-Reflex, Anti-Fingerprint, and Anti-Glare screen coatings, making the user interface more visible from all angles. Plus with a massive jump from 65,000 to 256,000 Colors, the display is able to maintain greater detail in all lighting conditions.

The inductive touch screen is receptive to inputs with or without riding gloves. Touchscreen shortcut buttons on the main screen also eliminate the need for auxiliary switches, thanks to the virtual buttons that allow access to functions such as turning the heated grips on, the rider heated seat, and the fog lights depending on the model.

The screen also allows for more customization options, with configurable split-screen functionality and 5 available layout options. This is supported by pre-set screen options, allowing riders to choose between adaptive cruise control functions, map navigation, telemetry, favorites, or music as their core home screen – along with a reduced, bare-basics-only view.

Furthermore, the switchgear has also been completely revised and optimized. It now features a dedicated Ride Mode button, a new 5-way joystick and back button, new cruise control buttons, new A/M (automatic/manual) button for AMT models, light, ignition switch. and new paddle buttons that are customizable for models that are not fitted with AMT. The new buttons are also backlit with graphics placed in optimal and logical positions to make them easy to find while riding in any conditions.

Offline Map Navigation is now integrated into the motorcycle connectivity unit, providing real-time navigation without syncing or tethering to a mobile phone. This allows for active route guidance and route planning, along with A-B routes, preprogrammed Points of Interest, and more.

Staying connected to the world outside of your helmet is also made even easier, thanks to an upgraded CCU3.0 connectivity unit with 32 GB of storage and 3 GB of RAM which ultimately runs the Android Automotive operating system. This allows for IoT connectivity with eSim, a GPS Antenna, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

The CCU3.0 ensures seamless reconnection with your smartphone on every ignition cycle, allowing riders to pick up where they left off in their music app on the split screen – now with album covers – and access their complete contacts list from the phone.

Connectivity Features

• The new unit allows apps to be streamed to the dashboard
• Possibility to enable future Over-the-Air updates
• 32 GB of Storage and 3 GB of RAM
• Connectivity through IoT/eSim, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi
• Android automotive operating system
• Various input audio level control

With this new approach it will be much easier to update functions and features throughout the life of the motorcycle in a way that we know from many other products such as phones and personal electronic devices. Initially, all updates will be done through the KTM dealer, but in the future, also over-the-air directly to the motorcycle.