Germany is the biggest exporter of electric bikes in the EU, with 240,000 units last year, or 29% of the total. It is followed by Belgium (170,000 units, or 20%), the Netherlands (100,000 units, or 12%), Romania (82,000 units, or 10%) and the Czech Republic (57,000 units, or 7%).
Nine out of ten electric bicycles were exported to another EU member state. Switzerland was the main destination for the e-bicycle exports to non-EU countries (31,500 e-bicycles were exported there in 2016, or 44% of total extra-EU exports of e-bicycles), followed by Japan (15,000, 21%), Australia and the United States (both 2,300, 3%), China (1,200, 2%), Canada (1,100, 2%) and New Zealand (1,070, 1%).
On the other hand, over half of the total EU imports of e-bicycles were destined to two EU member states: Germany (560,000, or 28% of total EU imports of e-bicycles in 2016) and the Netherlands (520,000, 26%). They were ahead of Belgium (250,000, 13%), France (175,000, 9%), the United Kingdom (130,000, 7%) and Italy (110,000, 5%).