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When the bike fails

2022-01-13T17:11:58.872Z


INFOGRAPHIC - Acquiring a new bike in 2022 may still prove difficult. Faced with high demand and a shortage of parts from Asia, delivery times are getting longer...


Buying a new bike, especially electric, in a store, is often an obstacle course.

Between 2019 and 2021, annual sales in France of electric bicycles doubled, from around 400,000 to 800,000 units.

If we add the sales of scooters (around 700,000 units), last year 1.5 million of these two means of transport were sold, slightly less than the sales of new cars in France. (1.66 million according to figures published on January 1 by the automotive platform PFA)!

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While demand is particularly strong, supply does not follow.

The closure of factories for many weeks, the resumption of slow production given the health measures in the workplace, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the container ship Ever Given, the reorganization of teams, the breaking of chains supply of parts, the very strong demand: this is in summary the equation with several unknowns that…

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Source: lefigaro

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