TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Last year Taiwan's leading bicycle manufacturer Giant Group reached a consolidated revenue of NT$ 63.45 billion (1.90 billion euro), a historical record. Compared to the previous year, this is an increase of 5.3 percent.
PARIS, France - Entrepreneur Marc Simoncini launched a new e-bike brand called Angell Bike. In the past three years, Marc Simoncini, the brand CEO Jules Trecco and a team of 20 worked to develop the first Angell e-bike devised by the French designer Ora-ïto.
SHENZHEN, China - Earlier this week folding bike pioneer Dahon celebrated the Grand Opening of its new HQ in Shenzhen.
TANNA, Germany - Mid November Continental announced to pull out of the electric bike market. Extra Energy MD and longtime bike electrification activist Hannes Neupert blames that on the automotive supply chain being under severe pressure due to the switch to electric cars.
HO CHI MINH, Vietnam - Last month DLG (Shanghai) Electronic Technology Co. has opened a facility for making battery packs for e-bikes, e-scooters and motorcycles as well as energy storage systems.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The transformation of the Taiwanese industry towards electric bicycles is now clearly starting to pay off. T
SUZHOU, China - Phylion recently celebrated the production of its 10th million power lithium-ion batteries. According to Phylion Battery's chairman and president Feng Xiao "Manufacturing lithium batteries is a serious process. You can't just come and go like webshops.
CHICAGO, USA - Researchers of the Chicago College of Engineering (University of Illinois) have discovered a method which greatly improves the fire safety of Lithium-Ion batteries. This is good news for all sectors of the e-mobility industry, where fire safety is a major concern.
GARDA TRENTINO, Italy - At the earlier this month held Gardasee Bike Festival ZF Sachs Micro Mobility GmbH has launched its first drive unit after the company announced its entry into the e-bike market at last year's Eurobike.
AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - After a year that saw unprecedented growth in the main markets for e-bikes; one of those markets continues to show a large growth. During this year's first quarter the sale of city e-bikes (turnover-wise) grew by some 44 percent in the Netherlands.
LILLE, France - O2Feel is a French e-bike brand created by Grégoire Brunet and Jean Bataille based in the North of France. Since its start it has grown to a 2018 sales total of 15,000 e-bikes and about 15 million euro turnover. To further strengthen that growth the company is now going international.
NANJING, China - Nanjing Lishui Electronics Research Institute Co., Ltd. is one of the leading suppliers of e-bike controllers. The company sells more than 1,000 different kinds of customized electronic products to its international customer base.
LONDON, UK - The UK government's Department for Transport (DfT) has made GBP 2 million (2.3m euro) funding available for the acquisition of e-cargo bikes, to support last mile deliveries by England's business and corporate sector.
ŠIAULIAI, Lithuania - Based in Lithuania's fourth largest city, Baltik Vairas celebrated its 70th anniversary end of 2018 with good financial results. "Fiscal year 2018 was a very good year for us," said Baltik Vairas CEO Žilvinas Dubosas.
SUZHOU, China - Battery manufacturer Phylion received the TÜV Süd technical report stating that the company is now officially EN ISO 13849-1:2015 (PL c, category 2) and EN15194:2017 clause 4.3.22. certified.
BRUSSELS, Belgium - In a letter, dated 8 October, the European Bicycle Manufacturers' Association (EBMA) has informed the European Commission that they wish to withdraw their request for registration of imports. This was reported by the Collective of European Importers of Electric Bicycles.
HYDERABAD, India - Tronx Motors debut India's 1st smart electric bike named 'Tronx One'. The e-bike is regarded as a first step in building Tronx Motors EV into a mobility company. It's a subsidiary of Smartron India Private Ltd; a company with a background in mobile, compute and wearable electronic devices.
The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on e-bikes Imported from China. The Commission has opted for the imposition of per company targeted dumping duties. The provisional dumping duties varies
In E-mobility, one innovation is quickly followed by the other. To reflect this trend, Eurobike's Hall A1 has been labelled 'E-mobility Solutions'. New mobility solutions in all possible options will be on display: almost every bicycle category is now available in an electrified version.
The Collective of European Importers of Electric Bikes expressed a burning protest against the Commission's decision to register imports of e-bikes
