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The annual competition has brought forth the latest trends of the industry and has also shown what the bikes of the future might become, the center said recently.
“There has been an obvious growth of popularity in electric bikes,” a spokeswoman of the center said, adding that six of the 19 finalists used such products.
Apart from a smaller motor system, how the battery is concealed in an aesthetic way is also crucial, she added.
The “Velocity,” an urban bike designed by Chen Cheng-liang of Taiwan, for example, has a hidden and detachable power assistance system inside the frame.
via Light electric vehicles, urban bikes foci of design competition | Eco-Business.com.
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Manufacturers believe exports will grow quickly, especially to Europe and North America, which accounted for more than 70% of the nearly 1m bikes sent abroad in 2009. One in every eight bicycles sold in the Netherlands these days is electric. Better yet, Chinese manufacturers secured an average price of $377 per exported bike, compared with less than $100 three years ago and just $46 for a pedal bike.
via China's electric-bicycle boom: Pedals of fire | The Economist.
The electric bike: Inherits almost all of the disadvantages of a regular bike, and jettisons the health effect. Most of the danger of a motorcycle, without the health benefit of a bicycle.
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