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According to this, e-bikes are outselling EVs in the US: https://electrek.co/2022/01/26/electric-bicycles-are-now-out...

And that's despite the fact that the US lags behind the Asian and European markets when it comes to e-bike demand: https://electrek.co/2022/02/08/us-electric-bicycle-sales-tra...

Without more data, I think it's too soon to conclude that EVs are outselling e-bikes, at least in terms of units shipped. And the fact that EV subsidies are expiring around the globe puts downward pressure on EV demand in a way that doesn't apply to e-bikes.



Right.. but isn't the relative growth of the respective EV classes more relevant to the hypothesis that it's demand outstripping supply? The prices and battery sizes are a tiny fraction of e-cars so the unit volume doesn't strike me as a like a weighty argument. If it were the other way around, with e-car prices rising faster, we could speculate that it was because of eg cosntrained battery supply.




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