Understanding the growth of e-bikes around the world

The revolution in electric micro-mobility is happening all over the world, but it is happening at varying speeds and in diverse ways around the globe. Although most news outlets focus on the competition between Tesla and BYD to gobble up the market of the legacy auto companies, and the latest EV startups to crash and burn, the changes in micro-mobility happening on the ground around the world are far more interesting and exciting in my opinion.

Unfortunately, it is hard to keep track of what is happening, since much of it doesn’t make headlines and is often poorly reported. I thought it was worth summarizing some of the trends in electric bicycles that I see globally and observing how I think they will translate in the future to developing countries like Bolivia where I have lived for the last 17 years. What happens in places like China, Europe and North America does reverberate in the rest of the world, but how that plays out on the ground is often unexpected and worth our attention.