Car with driver? Outdated! The electric bike conquers the luxury - Lifestyle target

Bicycles, scooters, electric bikes, motorcycles or scooters?

Mobility, especially urban mobility, is undergoing great changes and for everyone, even for managers and high-income people who perhaps once used to travel by car with driver.

In particular, we fell in love with hybrid models, two hyperversatile wheels, e-bikes in the lead.

The latest trend sees the birth of electric bicycles with large scooter wheels, also useful for traveling on rough or dirt roads, lowered seats to facilitate up-and-down, long, flat and soft seats, double shock absorbers and handlebars.

They weigh a lot but are fast and pedal assistance is used less and less.

To see them they don't even look like bicycles anymore and, for those over 50 years of age, they remember the old Piaggio Ciao or Boxer even if they keep the chainring to recall pedaling.

The e-bike has been reinvented and looks like old mopeds but (still, for now) without the obligation of a helmet and with prices that skyrocket.

It signals the phenomenon of the birth of the new

who want to be motorcycles' the economic and business magazine Forbes and the trade association

also highlights the exponential growth of the e-bike market in the main European cities

.

Covid has caused an evident leap forward in the city mobility sector and e-bikes will be the most coveted object, for those who can afford them.

“Europeans are expected to buy 10 million more bikes a year by 2030, a whopping 47% jump from 2019 for a total of 30 million more bikes.

The sale of bicycles is growing more than double the number of cars currently registered per year in the EU, - reads the CIE report in recent days.

- At the head of the growth curve are e-bikes which are expected to grow from 3.7 million bicycles sold in 2019 to 17 million in 2030 ".

Due to the current demand, the support already committed by various governments in terms of new infrastructures and bonuses for the purchase of e-bikes, the associations believe that the milestone of 10 million per year of sales could be reached as early as 2024.

Managers, professionals and scroungers fall in love with the new e-bikes and for them the industries churn out 'top of the range' models that were unthinkable until just a few years ago.

Forbes reports among the new luxury e-bikes the 'crazy'

(very fast, you pedal very little), the

with a more streamlined design (at a price of 3,500 euros).

The

vintage-looking

costs $ 7,000

and the new

e-bike

has a long saddle that looks like a scooter but also bicycle pedals.

On the Italian design front, the line of electric bikes from the Compagnia Ducale laboratory which, with Alfa Romeo, has launched models with a high level of technology, such as the

, are among the novelties

.

Followed by Fiat's urban ebike models (

, 7-speed, 250-watt engine) and

(E-Bike, only for the American market because it has a 750 watt motor while in Europe the limit is 500 watts).

Even

signed an e-bike for gourmets inspired to 500. Foldable, has a 250 watt motor in the rear hub.

Prices far exceed one thousand euros.

Very fashionable, always for a high target (ranging from 1500 to 3500 euros), also in Italy the

, of London origin, super-equipped with a choice of business bags in addition to the classic baskets, very colorful, foldable, with small wheels

All new Hybrid e-bikes follow the

, chosen by managers and white-collar workers for short trips.

The rental systems are joined by the proprietary scooter business and, among the top of the range, the micro, foldable and light ones to slip into the hood of the car win.

They are small, but powerful and even exceed 40km per hour.