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.