Posts Tagged ‘Ebikes’
Ebike Sales in Germany Surge to 1.36 Million Units and $4 Billion Value
German ebike sales have been growing by over 100,000 units per year since 2015, up to a total of 980,000 units for 2018. But the figures for 2019 which have just been released show further growth of 380,000 units in just one year to make total ebike sales for 2019 of approximately 1.36 million ebikes.…
Ebikes: The Next Big Thing Is Here Now
On 25th September 2014 I wrote and published an opinion piece in Bicycling Trade entitled ‘I’m Calling it Right Now!’ In that article I predicted that ebikes would become mainstream globally, including Australia, but that it would take, ‘…another three to five years to really make an impact in Australia.’ With the benefit of hindsight…
Research Shows that Ebike Riders are Not ‘Cheating’
A research paper published by members of Brigham Young University in the USA has concluded that eMTB riders are working their bodies almost as hard as those on regular bikes. In the study, 33 regular MTB riders aged 18 to 65 formed the pool, with each participant tracked via Strava over a 10 kilometre loop…
TEBCO Gives Dealers Full Technical Backup
– Sponsored Content – The Electric Bicycle Co (TEBCO) celebrating it’s 20th anniversary, meaning it’s the first ebike specialist company in Australia. Ask founder Tony Morgan for the secret to two decades of success and he has no hesitation in answering, “Our in house workshop capability is absolutely paramount,” he said. “We get people calling…
Founder Puts Australia’s Oldest Ebike Shop on the Market
What is possibly the first specialist ebike shop in Australia has been put on the market. Glow Worm Bicycles is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary on 15th December 2019. Owner Maurice Wells is not definitively claiming that his is the first ebike specialist shop in Australia, as others were starting around the same time, but it…
Harley Davidson Enters the Bicycle Market
Four years after introducing their LiveWire electric motorcycle program, on 23rd August 2019 Harley Davidson presented three ebike prototypes. They released a photograph, but no technical information. The urban style pedalec bikes appear to have only one brake lever to operate both front and rear brakes.
New Ebike Survey Gives First Australian Sales Data
By now most Australian bicycle trade members would be well aware that ebike sales have boomed overseas. Anecdotally we know that the market has been much smaller here, but is now growing at a rapid rate. Unfortunately we don’t really know the actual Australian ebike market size or rate of growth because there has been…