TAINAN, Taiwan - "Twenty years ago we decided to maintain our R&D and high and mid-end production in Taiwan and not to move this to China like so many other companies in the bicycle industry and others did," said Jill Wu of Taya Chain.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - The current state of affairs regarding electro mobility, a perspective on the future including policy making, and industrial and scientific developments will be the main themes of AVERE's e-Mobility Conference 2016.

SEEFELD, Germany - On December 1, 2015 TQ-Systems GmbH appointed Dr. Christian Becker - since 2014 responsible for the technical area at the company's e-mobility division Cleanmobile - officially to managing director of this division. He succeeded Angelika van der Straaten.

BEIJING, China - China is currently actively seeking to get market-economy status. Once that is established it will have repercussions for the current 48.5% anti-dumping duties on bicycles imported from China.

LAS VEGAS, USA - For the e-bike industry the annual CES 2016 or 'International Consumer Electronics Show' has become a showcase to present their innovative technologies new gadgets. What's on display in Las Vegas?

AMSTERDAM, THE Netherlands - in Holland the sale of fast and registered electric bikes increased by a big 30.3% in 2015. This could prove to be an indication on how the sale of this new electric bike category is developing in other leading European e-bike markets too.

NEW DELHI, India - The biggest bicycle manufacturer in India - Hero Cycles - sold over 600,000 bikes last December; 20% more compared to December 2014. It is the highest one-month sale in the history of the bicycle industry by any company in India, Hero Cycles said in a statement.

比利時，布魯塞爾- 電動自行車最新型號認證在2016年1月1日起生效。然而除了在輔助下時速最高達25公里之外且最大連續額定功率高達250W，電動自行車除了適用於相當非正式的「歐盟符合性聲明」外，所有其他需型號認證的電動自行車都必須要交付「符合性證明」，此證明是由型號認證法規所完全監管。

台灣，台中- 2015年台灣自行車產業和台灣其他產業相比之下表現要好得多。在TBA(台灣自行車輸出業同業公會)年度大會上，公會主席同時也是Giant執行長羅祥安報告2015年前11個月，台灣自行車出口成長了9.9%，數量接近370萬輛。

法國，巴黎-產業組織FPS副主席Pierre Gogin在回應法國當局簡化自行車機械要求時表示：「對我國政府來說，這是不必要且危險的行動」。

義大利，CASELA, d'ASOLO- 同業中最知名人物之一的Steven Merlini離開了Selle Italia。他在12月3日離開了他工作了21年之久的義大利座墊製造商。

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The new type-approval for electric bikes became effective on 1 January 2016. Whereas e-bikes with assistance up to 25 km/h and a maximum continuous rated power up to 250 W come with a fairly informal "declaration of conformity", all other electric bicycles that are in the type-approval have to be delivered with a "certificate of conformity", which is fully regulated by the type-approval legislation.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan - In 2015 the country's bicycle industry performed much better compared to most other industries in Taiwan. At the TBA (Taiwan's Bicycle Association) annual meeting chairman and Giant CEO Anthony Lo reported an increase in bicycle export of 9.9% during the first eleven months of 2015 to nearly 3.7 million units.

PARIS, France - "An unnecessary and dangerous initiative by our Government", said Pierre Gogin, Deputy Chairman of the industry organization FPS in response to the simplification of the requirements for bicycle mechanics by the French authorities.

CASELA, d'ASOLO, Italy - Steven Merlini, one of the most recognized people in the industry, left Selle Italia. After working 21 years for the Italian saddle maker he stopped on December 3.

義大利，LOMAZZO- 聲稱效能十分強大。據說很神奇、具革命性，甚至可以和塑膠的發明相提並論。我們所談論的是石墨烯。兩位發明石墨烯的科學家於2010年獲得諾貝爾獎顯示這項話題並非受到過度炒作。歐盟已經在研發程序上投入10億歐元補助也說明了這個事實。石墨烯已經應用在自行車產業上。

美國，鹽湖城- 美國猶他州州長的經濟發展辦公室(GOED)和Selle Royal集團宣布Selle Royal集團將會在猶他設立新工廠，在未來七年內計畫創造65個工作機會。

荷蘭，阿姆斯特丹- 高速電動自行車專用的安全帽研發下個月就會開始。安全帽製造商和其他利益相關者可以在2016年1月底就參與此項專案提出申請。這項又稱為「荷蘭技術協議(NTA)」的專案基礎將會變成歐盟標準。