Market Reports

BERLIN, Germany - Massive discounting campaigns to reduce inventory levels in the market pushed down the average e-bike retail price and market value in Germany last year. While sales volume remained relatively stable, the revenue from bicycles and e-bikes totalled €6.33 billion, down 10.1% from €7.06 billion in 2023. This is still significantly higher than the sales value of €4 billion in 2019.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - E-bikes continue to be the driving force for the Dutch market. The total e-bike market volume ended at 409,467 units, representing a market share of 47.7%. The total number of bicycles and e-bikes combined ended at 858,126, down from 919,101 in 2023. This year, the national industry association RAI Vereniging included fatbike sales for the first time in their annual report which has resulted in a major shift in the statistics.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - The Dutch market saw a slight decrease of 6% from 833,366 units in 2022 to 804,101 units last year. Thanks to a higher average retail price the revenue was down only 3.7% from 2022 to €1.4 billion in 2023. According to Huub Lamers, chairman of the section bicycles at the industry organization RAI and COO at Pon.Bike, "in times of supply chain constraints, we lack the availability of high quality data. The information we share today is based on sell out data, but we only have estimates on the number of bicycles and e-bikes in the pipeline."

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - "The future of cycling is bright," said Huub Lamers, cycling section chairman of the RAI industry association announcing the 2022 e-bike and bicycle sales in the Netherlands. The average price per unit increased last year, but not all figures show a positive trend.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - The much-discussed topic of supply chain constraints have had a direct impact on product availability. Due to the delivery problems, directly related to the corona pandemic, the e-bike and bicycle market in the Netherlands saw a record sales volume decline for 2021.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - The e-bike is being massively embraced in the Netherlands and its market share continues to expand. In 2020 e-bike sales increased by no less than 30% to a record number of 547,000 units. In value the market has reached the all-time high of €1.65 billion.

DEN BOSCH, the Netherlands - At least 9% of the consumers in the Netherlands expect to buy an e-bike this year. According to recent market research by Multiscope this will result in a market volume of some 1.2 million e-bikes. That's a major hike on top of the already successful market last year.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - During last year's sales season all indications were pointing at increasing e-bike sales. While 2018 already saw unprecedented growth, also 2019 showed relentless interest in electric bicycles.

AMERSFOORT, the Netherlands - First half year results for the Dutch market indicate that again electric bike sales is showing huge growth. It contrasts sharply with the sale of regular bicycles, which is sinking further and further.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - Increasing consumer spending, sunny weather during the summer of 2018 and an ongoing interest in e-mobility products led to an unprecedented market expansion in the Netherlands.

The sale of speed pedelecs shows a close to 8 percent growth this year. This is what happened in the Netherlands during 11 months of 2018. As it is unclear what's happening throughout Europe with regard to the rise of this e-bike category; market

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - For the first time in years the sale of electric bikes showed no further growth in the Netherlands in 2016.

The Dutch have now also gone crazy for e-bikes. In 2015 sales levels jumped nearly 24%, to 276,000 units and the e-bike now has a 28% market share.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands - The announcement of the Dutch bicycle market statistics did not include many surprises this year. After the long summer of 2014, with mild temperatures and a lot of sunny hours, bicycle sales increased in both numbers and turnover. What intrigued everybody was the exact growth level.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands - Contrary to the expectations of many experts bicycle sales fell only slightly in Holland last year. With only 2.5% ...

Poor Spring weather combined with the euro crisis proves to be a harmful cocktail for the Dutch bike sector. In particular in April the sale of new ...

In 2011 some 1,171,000 bicycles were sold in the Netherlands, a decline of 3.6% compared with 2010 when total market volume still accounted for ...

In the first half of 2011 663,000 new bikes were sold in the Netherlands; 8.6 percent less compared to the same period last year. The average purchase ...