With an electric bike, also called an e-bike, you always have the feeling the wind is at your back, even in a strong headwind! Electric bikes have a maximum speed of 25 km/h. You don’t need a special driver’s licence, licence plate or helmet, and you can ride anywhere regular bicycles are allowed. An electric bike is the perfect solution when a normal bike is getting harder to use, or when you ... [...]
As you probably know, the elektrische fiets is the fastest growing segment. Not only bakfietsen, stadsfietsen and women’s and men’s bikes now come with a battery to make cycling easier, but sports cyclists are also increasingly enthusiastic about e-bikes. You’re faster, it takes less effort and it saves you time.That’s why, in recent years, various types of e-bike models have come onto the ... [...]
You see them more and more often: electric bikes. And e-bikes are still gaining in popularity. At the moment, e-bikes are the best-selling type of bicycle. You see them everywhere: electric cargo bikes, electric city bikes, speed bikes. In this article we give you more information about e-bikes and help you find the right electric bike for your needs. Back in 2010 you could ride an average of 37 k ... [...]
What is the best electric bike for you? What should you look out for if you want to buy or lease an electric bike? The range of brands and models is now enormous, so a bit of help making the right choice is very welcome. In this article we list what you need to pay attention to and what choices you have to make. It’s also smart to do plenty of test rides and gather lots of information in advance ... [...]
The Netherlands is, of course, the cycling country of the world. So it’s no surprise that electric bikes have become increasingly popular here in recent years. In the early days, an electric bike still had a bit of an old-fashioned image, but now every type of bike is available as an electric version: electric folding bikes, electric cargo bikes, electric mountain bikes, electric kids’ bikes, you name it. You also see more and more electric scooters, for example, appearing in cities.
A few facts about electric bikes
- There are 22.9 million bikes in the Netherlands, of which 2.6 million are e-bikes and 15,906 are speed pedelecs (2018).
- On average, a household owns 3 bikes.
- In 2018, 1,011,000 new bikes were sold; an increase of almost 6% compared to 2017, when around 957,000 bikes were sold. E-bikes accounted for 40% of the number of bikes sold (2017: 31%); that’s over 400,000 electric bikes. A total of 2,844 speed pedelecs were sold.
- The average sale price of a ‘regular’ bike was € 659; for an e-bike € 2.011.
Buying an electric bike online
Of course you can buy an electric bike at your local bike shop, but more and more people are choosing to buy an electric bike online. You can do that via the brands’ own webshops, for example via stellafietsen.nl or gazelle.nl. But of course you can also buy an e-bike from an online bike shop like fietsenwinkel.nl, internet-bikes.nl or one of the many other online bike shops. Earlier, we also wrote an article about the Top 10 best online bike shops.
Buying an electric bike: what should you look out for?
There are six questions you can ask yourself if you’re planning to buy an electric bike:
- What are you going to use the e-bike for?
- What price range are you looking in?
- What is the minimum range you need, what battery capacity do you need?
- Where should the motor be positioned?
- Do you want a low step-through frame or a standard-frame electric bike?
- Which e-bike brand do you prefer?
There have been countless studies on e-bike batteries. Do you choose a removable battery or a fixed one; should it be a lithium-ion battery or is another type fine as well? What capacity do you need, and what should you look out for to get the maximum possible range? Can you buy a separate replacement battery for your electric bike?
