News Digest Item
30 May 2017

"1.9 million German households own an electric bicycle"

Federal Statistical Office

Electric bicycles were present in 1.9 million households across Germany in early 2016, equalling over five percent of all households, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said in a press release. The total number of e-bikes in the country rose from about two million in 2015 to 2.5 million, it added.

Read the press release in German here.

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