It’s often the small news snippets at the end of our news column that can point the way to future trends. In this week’s news it’s the incredible news that e-bike sales in Germany are set to overtake conventional non-electric bikes. And as usual the seemingly great news does pose some awkward questions; what will happen to those who want to ride non-electric bikes in future if they end up becoming a quaint rarity? Is the industry truly green if it replaces bike journeys rather than car journeys? For now it’s clearly still a massive success story and a very welcome one, but to take it to the next level of undreamed of success e-bikes and light electric vehicles need to start replacing car sales – there is some suggestion this has happened on a very small scale in Germany; the technology is here but the political will to make cities and towns more bike and light vehicle friendly is still very variable.
In this week’s e-bike news:
- Record breaking Evelo Atlas sales offer
- Yamaha YDX Moro – Yamaha celebrates 30 years in the US with high end eMTB
- Tucker take on Rambo e-bikes for outdoorsmen
- New off-road e-trikes for the UK
- Aura smart lighting system kickstarts
- Germany’s ‘folding’ electric microcar road tested
- German e-bike sales set to overtake non-electric ones