The launch, by LEVA-EU member Bird, aims to take advantage of rising e-bike sales in the UK
In an exclusive partnership with Halfords, the ‘Bird Bike’ from Bird will pedal its way onto UK streets. The electrically assisted cycle features a 250w rear hub motor from fellow LEVA-EU member Bafang.
Available in three colourways, compatible with the Bird app, and with a new step-through model joining the range this summer, Bird Bike will likely have riders flocking to their nearest Halfords for a test ride.
Brian Buccella, senior vice president at bird shares, “The UK is investing heavily in its cycling infrastructure and people are now looking to micro-electric vehicles to replace their petrol-powered trips. The Bird Bike not only offers both new and experienced cyclists the thrill of the ride, but also the safety and technology synonymous with our brand.”
The latest European Shared Mobility Index has been released, providing market-by-market fleet breakdowns, ridership & per capita trip data, modal snapshots, industry highlights, and more.
Alongside the year in review, full reports are available for each quarter of 2021, tracking the shared mobility boom across 100 European cities.
The report is compiled by fluctuo Mobility Intelligence, one of Europe’s leading aggregators of data on shared mobility services (bikes, scooters, mopeds, cars). They combine data collection methods, algorithms, and a team of mobility experts to produce exhaustive, accurate data. This includes daily data on more than 200 shared mobility services in 100 European cities.
LEVA-EU member Scott Sports was awarded 2nd place for dealer satisfaction in Germany by SAZbike. The annual evaluation allows German bicycle shops to evaluate their experience with bike and e-bike suppliers. Participating stores ranked suppliers in 13 wide-ranging categories including communication, product quality, and sustainability; to be eligible for final placement each supplier must receive ratings from a minimum of 25 retailers.
Congratulations to Scott Sports for demonstrating their consistency in dealer satisfaction, scoring higher than 17 other eligible suppliers to take the number 2 spot.
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LEVA-EU member Greenway, a leading Chinese e-bike battery supplier, will be attending the Taipei Cycle exhibition 2022. Between 9-12 march, find the Greenway Exhibitor booth in Hall 1 – L0132. Learn more about the event in full here.
Establishing in 2010, Greenway is committed to producing high-performance and eco-friendly batteries. With extensive experience in every aspect of battery production, including design and manufacturing, Greenway has quickly risen to the forefront of the battery market and will be showcasing this excellence at Taipei Cycle 2022.
For 2022, Taipei Cycle will function as a hybrid show – alongside the in-person event, a virtual show will run to the end of March. This structure aims to allow all those restricted by travel logistics to fully experience the event, furthering development and conversation within the cycling industry despite ongoing global challenges.
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The Netherlands currently has 4.9 million e-bikes. Together, these e-bikes have a market value of €9.5 billion. The electric city bike has the largest share in this.
This is apparent from the E-bike Monitor, a study by Multiscope among more than 3,200 Dutch people. (Multiscope reports some summary results from that research, for the other figures one has to purchase the report.)
One in three Dutch people owns one or more e-bikes. This amounts to 4.6 million Dutch people who together own more than 4.9 million e-bikes.
According to Multiscope, there is a clear profile for the electric cyclist: owners are often older than fifty and have an average, to twice-the-average, income.
The total e-bike market was worth €9.5 billion in 2021. (Not attributable to a specific period, but based on the total number of e-bikes in the Netherlands.) A year earlier, this value was €8.4 billion. The market value has therefore increased by €1.1 billion.
Electric city bike achieves the largest share of turnover (75%). Hybrid bicycles also have a large share at 17%. Speed pedelecs (2%), cargo bikes (2%), mountain bikes (2%), folding bikes (1%) and tricycles (1%).
In addition, more and more e-bikes are being leased. In most cases, the e-bike is privately owned (96%). The remaining 4% is leased through the employer, your own company or through private lease. In total this amounts to about 200,000 e-bikes. In 2020, 2% of e-bikes were leased. So there is an increase of 2 percentage points.
Meet the newest and most adventurous QWIC e-bike: the Atlas
Adventure, unforgettable impressions, and new routes. QWIC presents a completely new e-bike segment: the Adventure series. Within this segment, the Dutch e-bike brand is proud to unveil the Atlas, an off-road e-bike with the quality recognizable in all QWIC designs, but suitable for all terrains, designed for users who want unlimited access to off-road paths in addition to paved road surfaces.
The Atlas challenges
The QWIC Atlas cries out for long journeys and challenges. This Adventure bike has been developed for daily commuting and recreational use in adventure style. The Atlas offers the choice between the Vario, with continuously variable hub gear and maintenance-free belt drive, or the Derailleur version, with derailleur gear and chain drive.
5 unique features of the Atlas:
Innovative design: The integration of the battery in the top tube of the e-bike is completely new. This makes placing the battery even easier and makes the Atlas super stable.
Brute power: To guarantee serious distances on both paved and rougher roads, the latest technology from the electric vehicle industry has been applied. The Atlas has a powerful battery (522Wh/756Wh) and a strong 90Nm mid-mounted motor.
Award winning charging station: Innovation is one of the spearheads of QWIC. This is reflected in the award-winning charging station. The station fully charges the battery in a record time of three hours, can put the battery in hibernation mode to maintain the ideal capacity, and is also very user-friendly. And, no more ugly cables, this prize winner also looks great in the living room.
Adventure: The Atlas’ fat tires give maximum grip on off-road terrain. The Atlas is ideal for long distances, panniers, water bottles and a pump are easy to carry. The e-bike can also be expanded with a front carrier specially designed for this bicycle.
Connected & fully protected: The location of the Atlas is easy to trace with the GPS system. To enjoy the Atlas completely carefree, there is mobility insurance via the QWIC app and a 24/7 roadside assistance service available.
Available from February 14
The Atlas Derailleur will be available from February 14, 2022, at various QWIC dealers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. The Atlas Vario will be delivered to dealers in the spring of 2022.
Going into 2022, Eovolt condenses its folding e-bike range to three unique models and further develops production techniques.
The three new Eovolt models are:
Eovolt Morning 16” folding e-bike. Compact, lightweight folding e-bike featuring 16” wheels, five levels of assistance, four gears, hydraulic disc brakes and seat post battery with up to a 50km range. Detailed specs.
Eovolt Afternoon 20” folding e-bike. Compact 20” folding e-bike featuring 20” wheels, five levels of assistance, seven gears, hydraulic disc brakes, suspension front fork and seat post battery with up to 100km of range. Detailed specs.
Eovolt Evening 24” compact step-through semi folding e-bike. A brand new model for 2022 is the Evening 24” compact step-through semi folding e-bike, featuring 24” wheels, five levels of assistance, seven gears, hydraulic disc brakes and seat post battery with up to 100km of range. Detailed specs.
Going into 2022, Eovolt bikes see significantly more in-house production, ensuring the highest level of quality control, and reducing reliance upon supply chains; these have of course been unreliable in recent months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In-house frames feature smooth welds, internally routed cables, and a new matte coat finish. The retailer has also made steps to secure both tire and wheel manufacturing throughout the 2022 season, and has also committed to a strong price point, with the price of the 20″ Afternoon model coming down by £150 compared to 2021.
About Eovolt bikes
Eovolt proudly manufacture their own frames to ensure the highest specification, quality control and premium finish on their new Morning, Afternoon and Evening bikes. Frames feature smooth hand polished welds with minimalist rendering which give high tensile stiffness to enhance the frames’ strength and performance while also giving a premium super smooth finish. Internally routed cables that give our bikes a cleaner more stylish look, and frames now feature a new matt coat finish in various unique, stylish colours.
About Eovolt
EOVOLT are based in the city of Bourges which is situated in the Centre-Val De Loire region of France.
All EOVOLT bikes are built in their own manufacturing facility ensuring full monitoring of their quality control checks throughout the bike build process.
EOVOLT only use high quality parts are used from respected brands like Shimano and Samsung.
The EOVOLT mission statement is to make lightweight folding electric bikes through innovative design.
The most notable of many design features is the use of the seatpost as the battery which leads to a very clean stylish look of the EOVOLT range of bikes.
It is well established that the coronavirus pandemic has spurred increased ebike sales around the world. People are looking not only for more socially distanced ways to get around, but are also seeking healthier transport alternatives. With rising concern for our environment, ebikes are more appealing than ever.
The numbers released by the Light Electric Vehicle Association in the USA, vividly reflect the rising interest in electric bikes. Despite supply chain and logistic challenges, the USA recorded 790,000 electric bike imports in 2021, a substantial 70% increase on the 463,000 imports in 2020.
By comparison, sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids came to 652,000 units in 2021, according to BloombergNEF.
While it is an extremely promising trend, it is worth noting that ebike adoption figures in Europe have outpaced cars for a few years now, and indeed are on track to overtake sales of all cars. Estimated sales for ebikes in Europe are around 3 million units, while in Asia it is more like 35 million.
There are many benefits that come from increasing ebike use, be it individual fitness, mental health, fuel cost savings, reduced carbon footprint, less air and noise pollution and so on. But the same can be said for non-electric bicycle use. Yet sales of traditional bikes have not seen anything like the same kind of growth. It is reasoned that this is down to the increased comfort gained from electric assist, meaning that you can still enjoy the positive impact on your wellbeing, without arriving sweaty or worn out. Ebikes are taking off for leisure purposes too, allowing people to go further and faster in the pursuit of fun.
Over 100 million car and taxi trips made in city regions each year could instead be on e-bikes if the Government is able to deliver its target for mode shift to cycling, according to a new report by consultants Steer for the Urban Transport Group (UTG).
Sales of e-bikes have rocketed across Europe in the past 18 months, fuelled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many European countries seeing growth of between 30 and 40% (compared to single-digit growth in car sales). In Germany, where e-bike sales have been growing for several years, one in nine households owned an e-bike at the beginning of 2020 and it is estimated that e-bikes could soon account for half of all bicycles sold in the country.
The UK has also witnessed an upward trend, but sales have been low compared to Europe, with e-bikes accounting for just 3% of bikes sold in 2019, compared with between around 10 and 30% of sales in European countries.
Yet e-bikes have enormous potential to expand access to cycling (including to those with lower fitness levels, older people and people with disabilities), overcome barriers set by the UK’s often hilly terrain, shift mode use from the car, deliver substantial carbon savings, reduce congestion and revolutionise first and last mile freight deliveries.
The report breaks new ground by presenting different scenarios on the potential for e-bikes.
Under the ‘Government Target Scenario’ (see notes to editors), which assumes cycle mode share doubles compared to 2017 levels, plus an additional increase to account for positive behavioural change driven by the COVID-19 pandemic:
e-bikes contribute to 2% of all trips (or 256 million trips) per year in the seven core city regions (London, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire – which UTG represents). This is one third of all cycling trips.
e-bikes replace 103 million car and taxi trips annually across the city regions (or 416 million fewer car and taxi kilometres).
e-bike usage generates around £280m annually in monetary benefits for the city regions.
The benefits are even greater under the report’s ‘Accelerated Growth Scenario’ (see notes to editors), in which cycle mode share increases above the ‘Government Target Scenario’ due to a greater propensity for people to cycle (the ‘go Dutch’ scenario) with an additional uplift for increased e-bike adoption. In this scenario:
e-bikes contribute 7% of all trips (almost 1.2 billion trips) per year in the seven core city regions.
e-bikes replace 646 million car and taxi trips annually across the city regions (or 2.6 billion fewer car and taxi kilometres)
e-bike usage generates around £1.5 billion annually in monetary benefits for the city regions.
Ben Still, Managing Director of West Yorkshire Combined Authority and lead Board member for active travel at the Urban Transport Group, said:
“These scenarios paint a positive picture of what is possible for e-bikes. They tell us the portion of cycle trips that could be made by e-bikes if Government meets its target on shifting people to cycling, and the number of car and taxi trips which could be removed from our roads.
“E-bikes have unique appeal, enabling longer and more frequent cycle trips, and they can thrive in certain demographics, such as older people, or certain geographies, like hilly or congested towns and cities. E-bikes therefore need to be centre stage of Government’s active travel policy if we are to get more people cycling in our city regions.”
The report concludes: “The findings of this report serve to highlight the huge opportunity to power up the potential of e-bikes in the city regions and beyond to meet and exceed government targets for mode shift, revolutionise first and last mile travel and support wider policy goals. This potential is already being capitalised upon across Europe, with e-bike sales rocketing, even in traditionally more car dependent countries. It is time to join the e-bike revolution and enable more people to cycle more often.”
The report proposes six areas in which local and transport authorities can play a role in increasing the uptake of e-bikes. These are:
Financial incentives – such as grant schemes and tax incentives
Changing public attitudes and increasing awareness – through bicycle libraries, loan schemes and better marketing and promotion
Infrastructure improvements – including better cycle routes and mobility hubs
Security, safety and convenience – with the provision of secure cycle storage and e-bike maintenance
Research and monitoring into pilot programmes that test approaches to incentivise the use of e-bikes
Shared e-bikes – with local and transport authorities securing funding targeted to introduce e-bikes into existing bike share schemes.
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