LORIA, Italy/TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Italian industry veteran Luigi Seghezzi, general manager of Taichung-based Bike Machinery Trading and former GM of ...

OSAKA, Japan - Reports say that Sanyo is increasing its focus on batteries after suffering annual net losses over the past three years. The troubled ...

BERGUN,Switzerland - The first police precinct in Switzerland to do their local patrols with Flyer electric bikes is St.Moritz. In the Kanton of Engadin ...

NUNSPEET, Netherlands (November 5) - For the second year in a row Shimano Europe is diverting the NLG 25,000 (EUR11,344) it would have spent on ...

AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands (July 17) - As from this month SRAM's Customer Service Department in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, will take care of the ...

CAVENAGO BRIANZA, Italy (June 11) - Tien Hsin Industries recently opened its European office and warehouse facility just outside the northern Italian ...

SHENZHEN, China - Cable integration and the ongoing trend towards connectivity on e-bikes makes cables and connectors smaller. According to manufacturer Chogori the market demands thinner connectors with similar functionalities.

MÜHLHAUSEN, Germany - At this year's Eurobike, Karlheinz 'Kalle' Nicolai celebrated a premiere with his first own e-drivetrain brand. With the Helius-Drive Systems brand under the umbrella of his company Universal Transmissions GmbH (UT), the two-wheeler visionary is once again thinking outside the box.

WELS, Austria - According to Pierer Mobility AG volatile and difficult economic conditions led to a negative first half 2024 result. The company also harmed itself with some short-term strategy changes after entering the bicycle and e-bike business. Now they have to pay the bill. In other words: drastic measures are being taken.

EASTWOOD, United Kingdom - Raleigh UK risks being closed down by the government agency Companies House over its failure to file its financial results. The fully owned Accell Group subsidiary has been given three months to get its affairs in order or face being forced to shut down its operation.

BEN CAT TOWN, Vietnam - Motinova, a partnership between the two Chinese companies HL Corp. and TTium opened a new e-bike motor factory in the South of Vietnam last week.

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.

TURNHOUT, Belgium - Leading e-mobility connector manufacturer Higo expands its signal range with a circular 6-pole connector with a diameter of only 6mm. This so-called Z606D connector has been especially developed for e-bike displays where 5 to 6 poles are commonly needed.

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.

SHEFFIELD, UK - European hydrogen fuel cell specialists, Pragma Industries, has successfully increased the maximum range of its pioneering hydrogen fuel cell Alpha bike by fifty percent. This could be accomplished by using an advanced, high-pressure gas cylinder from AMS Composite Cylinders.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - Over 920 funders pledged amounts ranging from 250 euro to 80,000 euro in VanMoof's crowdfunding campaign earlier this week. According to VanMoof, "the crowdfunding round was so successful that it filled up before it even went public."

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The urban mobility company Voi Technology is currently planning a large-scale expansion in 150 European cities with e-step-scooters, as well as e-bikes and e-cargobikes. The Voi sharing system of this Scandinavian start-up was successfully launched in the summer of 2018 in Stockholm.

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.

The Czech company Comp Drives,that produces mid-motors C17/C18 with intelligent shifting GSGI, started a cooperation with Apache Bicycle. The Apache MY2019 offer is expanded with 7 ebike models with C18 motors. Comp Drives is establishing its market position and is becoming more and more known abroad.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Bicycle Manufacturers Association is next to applauding the imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on e-bikes imported from China also already warning for Chinese exporters that want to avoid the extra duties.