DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - Bike Europe, the leading trade journal for the international e-bike and bicycle industry, is looking for a content writer and editor.

MANDEURE, France - Last Friday the French PSA Group (Peugeot - Citroen's automotive business) announced that Mahindra Two Wheelers Europe will acquire the remaining 49 percent of Peugeot Motocycle (PMTC). Five years ago, this company took over a majority shareholding in the French scooter maker for 15 million euro.

WATERLOO, USA - Trek Bicycle has announced that it will be promoting European Sales Director Harald Schmiedel, to Vice President of European Business. Previously, Schmiedel had been the Country Manager for the German, Austrian, and Swiss markets; a role that he has held since 2006.

台灣，台中－台灣的電動自行車產業正飛速成長，台灣自行車協會（TBA）主席Michael Tseng在台中舉辦的2020年台北自行車展新聞發表會上也表示：「台灣的自行車產業正邁入新的時代。」

台灣上市上櫃公司Giant Manufacturing Co電動自行車銷售正急起直追。該集團去年出貨量為38.5萬輛電動自行車，是前一年數量的近兩倍。近期他們報告上半年已出售29萬輛電動自行車，目標於今年下半年賣掉至少31萬輛。若以今年總目標60萬輛來看，該集團銷售較去年相比將會成長56%。

比利時，布魯塞爾（Brussels）－柬埔寨依舊可能喪失出口至歐盟成員國的免關稅待遇，非適用該優惠待遇的國家必須繳交14%進口稅。GSP+待遇讓柬埔寨在過去幾年來坐穩歐盟最大的自行車供應國，直到今年上半年，出口至歐盟的數字在多年來首次出現下滑的現象。這是否只是未來趨勢的第一個跡象？

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - Is it the weather, or the economy, or just the plain truth that e-bikes are like iPhone: everybody wants one? Fact is that after the January to September selling-season for bicycles the results show that interest - and with that sales - of e-bikes remained unrelentless huge.

MUNICH, Germany - Viewing the video of the company's production process of a carbon bike frame reminds of all those women's hands that stick together layer by layer of carbon sheets.

PARIS, France - Last week's Autonomy Show in Paris focused on a rapidly growing mobility phenomenon in city centers; in particular on free floating schemes offering for instance electric step-scooters. The 5th edition of the mobility event Autonomy targeted B2B and B2G businesses.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Last September's Eurobike saw the premiere of X-Cobra premium made in Taiwan (electric) Mountainbikes. The heritage of this brand is special as X-Cobra Bikes is a subsidiary of Aprove; the Taichung, Taiwan based frame maker.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - There's again the threat that Cambodia could lose its duty-free export status on regular bicycles exported to the EU member states. That status is allowing companies operating in the country for a 14 percent import duty edge on countries that do not hold such status.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Taiwan's e-bike industry is growing at lightning speed. Even in such pace that it prompted Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) chairman Michael Tseng to state "Taiwan's bicycle industry is entering a new era."

SCHWEINFURT, Germany - Construction is in full swing and is reaching its final stages in Röthlein, near Schweinfurt. The 18 million euro costing logistics center will mainly be serving Winora Group; the German subsidiary of Accell Group that is marketing Europe's biggest e-bike brands Haibike and Ghost.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Underlining that Taiwan's bicycle industry stands at the start of a whole new era in e-bikes, one of the country's biggest parts makers is presenting series of components especially suited for various e-bike categories. The offering includes saddles, pedals and lights.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Giant Manufacturing Co expects to sell about 600,000 e-bikes this year. If the company actually lives up to this expectation, it will exceed outlooks previously expressed by the company's chairwoman Bonnie Tu.

REUTLINGEN, Germany - Of course it's focused on electric cars, but undoubtedly the company's fast-growing e-bike business will also benefit from the newest technology it is introducing. It's about microchips made of silicon carbide (SiC) that Bosch has developed.

ESCHBORN, Germany - Continental Bicycle Systems GmbH & Co. KG is presenting two new drives; the 48V Revolution and the 48V Prime. Conti's Revolution is a fully automatic shifting power unit with integrated CVP transmission. The 48V Prime is targeting city & trekking models with more traditional gears.

LA FLECHE, France - The French e-bike manufacturer Neomouv, based in La Flèche (close to Le Mans), had to reorganize (among other operations) its production faster than it expected because of the anti-dumping duties on e-bikes imported from China that came into force last January.