HYDERBAD, India - Tronx Motors, with its flagship cross-over smart e-bike, the 'tbike One Pro' has announced countrywide availability across 14 cities of its high ROI and cloud-connected bike. The e-bike has been specifically crafted to address the fast growing shared/B2B e-bike segment in India. Following success in the domestic market, the company is now eyeing up distribution in Europe.
GENT, Belgium - The take-over by supermarket owner Colruyt in 2019 saved the future of the Belgium bicycle retail chain Fiets!. A year earlier Fiets! already filed for chapter 11 and that was not without reason. According to a publication in Belgium newspaper De Tijd, Colruyt had to invest another €10 million in Fiets! to make it future proof.
EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands - Shimano has introduced three new e-bike batteries into its Shimano Steps line-up including internal and external versions of its 630Wh largest capacity batteries for even longer rides.
PARIS, France - Angell, the bike project launched by Marc Simoncini and Jules Trecco in 2018, has partnered with household appliance manufacturer, Groupe SEB, in an exclusive arrangement. The group will be responsible for the industrial development and production of Angell smart bikes at its long-standing Is-sur-Tille plant in Burgundy, France. Groupe SEB is also supporting the project by acquiring a stake in Zebra, the company that produces and markets Angell, through its SEB Alliance investment vehicle.
REUTLINGEN, Germany - Bosch eBike Systems sees the corona crisis as a challenge for politicians to resolutely drive forward the long-discussed mobility turnaround. The German mid-motor drivetrain supplier calls for the expansion of urban bicycle infrastructure as the corona crisis made clear that, "bicycles and e-bikes play an increasingly important role in modern individual mobility."
THE HAGUE, the Netherlands - Industry organizations BOVAG and RAI in the Netherlands expect a huge boost for the country's e-bike market in 2020 and the years after.
DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - 'Giant To Sell 600,000 E-Bikes This Year.' It was this report, published last October at Bike Europe's online platform, bike-eu.com, that triggered our desire to dig deeper into the basic question of how big is the biggest in e-bikes? Could that be Giant?
TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Taiwan's e-bike industry is growing at lightning speed. Even in such pace that it prompted Taiwan Bicycle Association (TBA) chairman Michael Tseng to state "Taiwan's bicycle industry is entering a new era."
AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - In fact, it would be logical to see the first signs of saturation in the Netherlands, which has been Europe's (relatively speaking) fastest growing and largest e-bike market for years.
BAYREUTH, Germany - The car parts manufacturer started its e-bike project already in 2013, which two years later led to the introduction at Eurobike. Over the past years, Rehau, the billion-dollar polymer specialist that is behind the
TAICHUNG, TAIWAN - Both Giant Manufacturing Co. and Merida Industry Co. report a steady growth of e-bikes sales during the second quarter of the year. The e-bike is becoming increasingly important for Taiwan's largest bicycle manufacturers.
WUXI, China - Inefficient charging and a limited battery life has been the main problems which have restricted the development of e-bikes as well as other e-vehicles.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - After Darfon Electronics Corp. entered the e-bike market in 2015, now another computer giant from Taiwan is making its appearance. And this one is even much bigger compared to Darfon.
OBERWANGEN, Switzerland - Swiss speed pedelec specialist myStromer AG returned to profitability after it saw its sales grow by 20 percent last year. With that a successful restructuring process was completed which had drastic consequences for, among others, the supply chain of the company.
WASHINGTON, USA - The by President Trump triggered trade war with China has led the United States to charge the import of electric bicycles from China with a 25 percent tariff. Next to complete e-bikes also e-bike motors are hit with the same tariff. The imposition of the tariff starts by August 23.
BERLIN, Germany - Thriving e-bike sales and favourable weather conditions have resulted in a positive mood on the German market. For the first half of 2018, the German industry association 'Zweirad Industry Verband' (ZIV) estimates an
Recently India and Taiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of electric vehicles. The Memorandum partners, the Indian Society
DOETINCHEM, the Netherlands - Concerns over Lithium-Ion batteries exist for a long time already. However, due to what recently happened at a Dutch
TAICHUNG, Taiwan - Following the presentation at Eurobike last year, e-bike system supplier Wuhan Ttium has developed and upgraded the Powerful PX.
The import of regular bicycles into the European Union with its common market of 28 member states dropped hard last year. It downed with slightly over 10%
