Sources: Cycling Industry News, Heise, IndexBox

Figures published by the German Federal Statistical Office, Destatis, have revealed that private ownership of electric scooters and bikes in Germany is soaring. 2.9% of households own at least one e-scooter, and numbers of e-bikes not requiring a licence reached 12.2 million in 2023.

The private ownership of electric micromobility devices can be assessed in comparison to the increasing popularity of shared-use schemes for urban travel and last-mile connectivity, with access to shared-use vehicles being subject to shifting policy and regulations.

Germany is seeing strong growth towards electric mobility of all kinds, and it has been reported that there are now in total over 17 million e-bikes on the country’s roads – a marked contrast to its approximately 2 million electric cars.

Figures show that there is at least one standard e-bike (excluding speed pedelecs) in every fifth German household, at 20.6%. This is in contrast to figures for 2018, where 3.8 million e-bikes represented only 7% of households. Ownership of any type of bike is high in the country, with 78.4% of households containing a total of 74.9 million bicycles in 2023.