Market Reports Germany

E-bike and bicycle sales in Germany are still on a high level. Next year there will be more e-bikes and bicycles than inhabitants. – Photo ADFC

German bicycle market defies negative consumer confidence

BERLIN, Germany - Bicycle production and sales in Germany attained very high levels in 2023, comparable to the bicycle boom in 2020. Despite the generally negative consumer climate, sales value of bicycles and e-bikes combined in Germany only slightly decreased by 4% from €7.36 billion in 2022 to €7.06 billion last year.

‘Made in Germany’ is becoming an increasingly important trademark for the e-bike export markets. – Photo Bike Europe

German e-bike market performed strong in 2022

BERLIN, Germany - The German e-bike and bicycle market performed very strong in 2022 with a 10% increase in e-bike sales the national industry organisation, ZIV has reported. Perhaps sales could have been much higher as ZIV CEO Burkhard Stork refers to a "general reluctance of consumers to buy in the second half of the year."

“As an industry we have stepped up the market volumes structurally above pre-corona levels,” explained ZIV Managing Director Burkhard Stork. - Photo Bike Europe

German market shows no sign of slowing as sales continue to grow

BERLIN, Germany - The e-bike and bicycle sales record during the 2020 pandemic were not just a hype. The latest market statistics published by the national industry organisation, ZIV, in Berlin yesterday afternoon clearly show that the industry was even able to step up production and sales volumes.

“If a higher domestic supply had been available, we estimate that it would have been possible to sell significantly more bicycles as well as e-bikes,” said ZIV Director Burkhard Stork (right). – Photo Bike Europe

High demand for e-bikes in Germany continues into 2021

Is the German industry able to keep up demand at that unprecedented high level? At the press conference preceding the opening of Eurobike tomorrow, the German industry association ZIV announced the e-bike and bicycles sales results for the first half of 2021.

According to the 2020 market statistics of the German industry association ‘Zweirad-Industrie-Verband (ZIV)’ e-bike sales boosted by 43%. - Photo Bike Europe

German e-bike market reaches unparalleled sales records

BERLIN, Germany - The e-bike and bicycle industry in Germany already enjoyed dynamic growth in recent in years but 2020 set all records in volume expansion and growth in turn-over. According to the 2020 market statistics of the German industry association 'Zweirad-.

German experts look ahead to 2021 e-bike market

German experts look ahead to 2021 e-bike market

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - In Germany, the market also got overheated soon after the shops opened again. That was not a surprise. Since 2015 the e-bike market has expanded by double digits year after year. Messingschlager General Manager Dennis Schömburg and Ernst Brust,

After years of growth German market for e-bikes is not levelling off. On the contrary, sales keep accelerating. – Photo Schmitz Fahrrad

E-Bike Sales in Germany Keeps Accelerating with 1.4 Million Sold in 2019

BAD SODEN, Germany - What started with a sales growth of 11.5 percent in 2015 has been accelerating since. Of course this is about e-bikes which are so rapidly gaining in popularity in Germany that in 2019 sales growth in units stood at a huge 39 percent. In absolute numbers 1.36 million e-bikes were sold on Europe's biggest bike market.

Has ZIV adjusted its expectations downwards for 2019 e-bike sales in Germany due to the consequences of dumping duties on imports from China? – Photo Shutterstock

Are Supply Shortages Hitting on Europe's Biggest E-Bike Market?

BAD SODEN, Germany - With the coming into force of the anti-dumping tariffs on the import of e-bikes from China mid-January 2019, that import has fallen to a negligible number. Of course, other countries have jumped into this gap, like Taiwan. But this cannot fill the supply gap that comes with the greatly reduced supply from China. The consequences of this now become apparent from the latest data of Germany's industry association. It raises the question if supply shortages are hitting on Europe's biggest e-bike market.

E-bikes made in Germany are popular in Europe as their export increased 51 percent. – Photo Bike Europe

One Million E-Bikes Sold in Germany in 2018; Up 36 Percent!

BAD SODEN, Germany - E-bikes are boosting the German bicycle industry as the sales volume hiked by a staggering 36 percent in 2018 compared to 2017. No less than 980,000 units were sold last year. Today every one out of four bicycles sold in Germany is an electric one.

E-bike sales in Germany increased by a big 19 percent in 2017. However, the volume of the total bicycle market was down 5 percent. – Photo Bike Europe

German E-Bike Market Sees Record Growth in 2017

BERLIN, Germany - The e-bike market in Germany is growing at record pace. The newest 2017 data from industry association 'Zweirad-Industrie-Verband' (ZIV) clearly underlines that e-bikes nowadays in Germany are, next to a preferred mode of mobility as well as for leisure and sports, also a clean, quiet and space-saving alternative for city logistics.