MUNICH, Germany - Sushi Bikes caused a sensation in 2019 when it whizzed onto the market with a direct-to-consumer business model and cool e-city bikes at affordable retail prices from €1,000. The initial success has now faded away, and Sushi Bikes joins the line of German companies that could not make it to the end of 2025.
SEATTLE, United States - A lithium-ion battery recall on nine models of Rad Power e-bikes might be the last straw for the American company, which filed a warning notice for insolvency just two weeks ago in early November.
WEYARN, Germany - Fritzmeier Group has announced that after 14 years, both production and sales of its e-bike business M1 Sporttechnik will be discontinued on 30 April 2026.
PARIS, France - A small company from western France could soon shake up the global e-bike industry. Vendée-based Anod has taken a radical step: it is phasing out lithium-ion batteries, the standard in almost every e-bike, and replacing them with what it calls a safer and more sustainable solution — hybrid supercapacitors.
MYSŁOWICE, Poland - Located just outside the Polish city of Katowice, Polana Bikes has quietly set up a state-of-the-art bicycle production facility. With its own e-bike brand already on the domestic market, the company has big ambitions to change the narrative regarding European e-bike production. Under the motto 'Passion for bicycles meets industrial precision,' the company relies on local expertise with a touch of Chinese 'Guanxi.'
Źródła, Poland - From their shared base on the outskirts of Wrocław, Ecobike and Mobility One have built a two-track operation: a consumer-facing brand and a production partner for external labels. It's a set-up that, in export manager Krystof Dobrowolski's view, plays to Poland's growing strengths as a hub for bicycle manufacturing while staying true to Ecobike's family roots.
