{"id":7053,"date":"2020-03-22T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discerningcyclist.com\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:37:16","slug":"why-electric-bikes-are-key-to-cycling-growth-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discerningcyclist.com\/why-electric-bikes-are-key-to-cycling-growth-in-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Electric Bikes are Key to Cycling Growth in Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you find your commute to and from work on your bicycle, each day drains you of energy and leaves you drenched in sweat, or that hill you have to scale feels a little steeper each time, electric bikes could offer you a perfect solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, they’ll cost you a fair bit more than a regular bike, but you’ll gain all of the advantages from a fitness perspective, requiring less pedal power on your part all the while. And who knows \u2013 that extra energy you’ll have by the time you arrive at your desk could also help you become more productive at work.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Electric Bike Stats<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

E-bike sales<\/a> are booming in China, Germany, and Holland. China makes 36 million electric bikes<\/a> each year, while e-bikes make up 44 per cent of all European sales in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they’re not only big in The Netherlands; they’re the biggest. Holland sells more e-bikes than any other type of bicycle, and in 2018, more than one million bikes were sold to the Dutch, with electric bikes accounting for 40 percent of these sales. In 2017, they represented 31 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UK isn’t in the same league as these three countries from an e-bike perspective, but things are certainly heading in the right direction, despite the number of cyclists in Britain falling for a third year in a row this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sales of electric bikes, though, have increased by eight percent in the UK each year, and Halfords says 65 percent of their e-bikes go to people older than 55, which proves that you don’t have to be in your prime physically to reap their benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only, but five percent of UK adults (2.5 million) have said they are \u2018likely’ to invest in them in the next year, so electric bikes<\/a> are only going to become increasingly commonplace in the country..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, folding bicycle maker Brompton<\/a>, which makes 50,000 bikes every year, has already sold more than 2,500 e-bikes, and predicts that at least half of its business could stem from them within the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also putting \u00a31 million into its hire scheme, whereby e-bikes can be rented for \u00a33.50 a day to 50 more sites in the next three years, roughly double its current amount.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Why Ride An Electric Bike?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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