{"id":43295,"date":"2022-11-04T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/?p=703000"},"modified":"2022-11-04T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:19:13","slug":"the-rise-of-electric-bikes-why-bike-brands-cycling-campaigners-and-politicians-are-backing-ebikes","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/rss_feed\/the-rise-of-electric-bikes-why-bike-brands-cycling-campaigners-and-politicians-are-backing-ebikes\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of electric bikes: why bike brands, cycling campaigners and politicians are backing ebikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jack Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 04 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The growth of the electric bike industry continues at a supercharged pace.<\/p>\n

Electric bikes<\/a> now span almost every cycling discipline, with ebike sales accounting for more than 23 per cent of all bicycle sales in the UK in 2020, according to Mintel.<\/p>\n

The future, it seems, is electric for many riders \u2013 and the bike industry, cycling campaigners and politicians agree.<\/p>\n

To find out the reasons behind this growth, why ebikes may present the future of transport, and what can be done to make electric bikes more accessible, we spoke to two of the industry\u2019s biggest brands, Specialized and Brompton.<\/p>\n

We also discussed an electric future with cycling charity Sustrans and Selaine Saxby MP, the co-chair of the UK\u2019s All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking.<\/p>\n