Dutch bike over 1,000 km per year as e-bike sales soar

[LockH]

A total of 1.05 million new bicycles were sold last year, 223 thousand of which were electric bicycles.

http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/10/21/dutch-bike-over-1000-km-per-year-as-e-bike-sales-soar/

Over the past decade, the sales share of e-bikes has increased from 3 percent to 22 percent.

E-bike sales accounted for 47 percent of the total revenue from bike sales.

In all of Europe, only Germany sold more e-bikes last year than the Netherlands – 480 thousand. Belgium followed in third place with 130 thousand e-bikes sold, and France and Italy makes up 4th and 5th place with 78 thousand and 51 thousand sold respectively.

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