Jack Oortwijn

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam - Last month DLG (Shanghai) Electronic Technology Co. has opened a facility for making battery packs for e-bikes, e-scooters and motorcycles as well as energy storage systems.

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - 'Giant To Sell 600,000 E-Bikes This Year.' It was this report, published last October at Bike Europe's online platform, bike-eu.com, that triggered our desire to dig deeper into the basic question of how big is the biggest in e-bikes? Could that be Giant?

TANNA, Germany - Mid November Continental announced to pull out of the electric bike market. Extra Energy MD and longtime bike electrification activist Hannes Neupert blames that on the automotive supply chain being under severe pressure due to the switch to electric cars.

WARSZAW, Poland - Exact market data for 2019 is not yet available but the Polish Cycle Association (PCA) expects a decline in bicycles sales this year.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - They are somewhat secretive about the way they operate. At least that's the experience of this trade journal.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Last Tuesday Taiwan's parliament passed the review of a draft bill to step up the fight against fake origin labels and certificates of origin. The bill was initiated by Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs after the government identified several companies that tagged Chinese products with fraudulent labels of origin in an attempt to avoid anti-dumping tariffs imposed by the EU on Chinese exports.

DOLNI DOBROUC, Czech Republic - Tianjin Golden Wheel Bicycle Group Co. Ltd recently announced plans for the investment of some 10 million euro in a new Czech Republic based facility that is to have a capacity for assembling 180,000 e-bikes annually.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - Yesterday, Pon Bike finalized the acquisition of Urban Arrow. This Amsterdam based Dutch electric cargo bike brand has seen fierce growth in recent years.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union has published an extremely critical report in which it warns Cambodia that it has not taken enough steps to prevent a loss of its special trade privileges, noting particularly "further deterioration" of its human rights record since a review process was launched nine months ago. C

Today, Continental Bicycle Systems GmbH & Co KG is informing its customers that it is pulling out of the e-bike market. Yesterday, the company announced this decision to its staff of about 100 employees. While for the time being final engineering work on the company's new 48V