Battery cell manufacturer Samsung SDI anticipates on a rapidly growing e-bike sales. According to the Korean company the lithium-ion battery market for

A must-see at the 2017 Taipei Cycle Show is the Diavelo E-voluzione e-bikes. In particular as they have been desgned by famous Pininfarina; the stylist

Merida is stepping up its e-bike production in Taiwan. Volume wise Taiwan's bicycle industry suffered substantial declines in export last year, including

BMZ is extending its warranty term to 4 years for its batteries used at Model Year 2017 e-bikes. The 48 months term applies in particular for BMZ batteries

Electric bicycles are rapidly becoming more popular in Norway. This year sales is estimated to double. What contributes to the success is a subsidy scheme

"The production of Brose e-bike components is identical to the manufacturing of any of it products in our huge range of automotive parts," says

KMC X-eBike Series is specially designed for mountain and sport e-bikes, whose mid-drive motors exert even higher torque and torsion on chains.

To equip users of speed e-bikes with a suitable helmet, a NEN-project group has developed the standard NTA 8776 standard. It contains all legal requirements

DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - Bike Europe's June/July edition will highlight the latest innovations and developments on e-bikes, e-Mountainbikes, speed e-bikes as well as e-bike systems and components. Mail us you news to include your latest models, products and parts in this issue .

Relo offers an electric assist kit that fits an almost every bicycle, thanks to flexible connection between the motor/battery modules and transmission.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - 2015 electric bike sales in the Netherlands surged with a big 24%. The other main market in Europe for e-bikes - Germany - also showed big double growth last year and which is continuing to grow further with e-MTBs, as Accell Group (e-bike market leader) reported last week in its trading update.

VIENNA, Austria - The total number of e-bikes and e-MTB sold on the Austrian market hiked last year by 54.4% to 77,220 units. "Nearly one-fifth of all bicycles sold in Austria is an e-bike," notes Alexander Raffeiner of the Austrian sporting goods industry association VSSÖ.

SILKEBORG, Denmark - The man behind it has been involved in e-bikes right from the start of this new category and is also known as an inventor of some e-bike features still used today. Lars Munksoe who started Protanium in 2006 has now sold all of his shares in that company to Accell Group and started a new e-bike company. It's called Positive Energies ApS.

MUNICH, Germany - Early February the Winora Group (part of listed Accell Group) celebrated the opening of a Haibike Design Centre. Remarkably it isn't based at the Winora Group headquarters in Sennfeld near Schweinfurt but in the Bavarian capital Munich.

ELLWANGEN, Germany - Varta Microbattery announced that their e-bike batteries like the CellPace and the VARad are no longer on the market. Why Varta withdraws from the e-bike market was not disclosed.

LONDON, UK - The vast bulk of cycles sold in the UK are imported and UK government figures from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) show that for the last 8 years cycle imports have been quite stable, hovering between 3 and 3.5 million units per annum.

TOKYO, Japan - At a recent symposium on batteries in Japan Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei showed a superfast battery charging technology that works with super-conducting Graphene. Wonder-material Graphene also offers unprecedented characteristics for tyres, as Vittoria showed in its new line-ups of road, MTB and e-MTB tyres last month.

BAD SODEN, Germany - Like with regular bicycles also the safety standards for e-bikes are being globalized. However, as the ones for bicycles are already in force the global standards for electric bikes still have a long way to go before they are there. The question is also which e-bike categories are to be covered by the new ISO standards?

WASHINGTON, USA - The USA has been a market that frustrates many in the electric bike world. While Europe has adopted e-bikes with great vigour and speed, the USA has lagged by about 10 years. But that seems to be both in the past. The USA market is growing significantly although it is not as big as anyone would like for it to be.

MILAN, Italy - After a difficult 2013, the downturn of the Italian market stopped in 2014. An improving Italian economy as well as a nice spring proved to be the right mix to rekindle the interest of consumers for bicycles and bike products. Bike deliveries to distribution channels increased by 6.4%. E-bike sales were stagnant due to a rapidly changing demand.