The History of Electric Bike

The development of ebike has been preceded by European countries such as Japan and Germany. In recent years, the United States has also developed rapodly. In forgin, Folding ebike is a fitness tool what is easy to travel and leisure. It can be used in large parking lots, supermarkets and tourist areas. In general, the potential of ebike market is large in the world.

As electric bike companies must have development capabilities of comprehensive technological(from motor kits, batteries to other components). Through research and development, companies can create new products with high added value. The development history of Japanese electric bike fully illustrate this point.

After the sales of ebike increased to 224,000 in 1997, and many manufacturers were optimistic that at this rate. Unexpectedly, the sales volume of Japanese ebike dropped to 150,000 in 1998.

After analysis, the main reason is that follow-up improvement of product technology is not enough, and the development of high value-added products has not made progress, thus making the market fall into troubles. At that time, manufacturers set a goal to focus on “lightweight” and “increased battery life"

In order to achieve the goal of lighter weight of the whole vehicle, it mainly develops from two aspects: First, the motor is miniaturized. Panasonic has developed a highly reliable DC brushless motor to reduce the weight of the motor by adopting a patent-intensive new winding process and a super-magnetic magnetic magnet integral molding process. The second is the lightweight of the car body. In addition to the motor and battery, the most heavy component on the car is the car body. However, if the weight of the frame wall is reduced by pursuing lightweight, it will inevitably reduce the strength and rigidity of the frame, thus affecting the safety of riding. To this end, Panasonic has developed the high-strength alloy steel and related processes through Aixix, and adopted advanced design methods such as “Finite Element Method” in structural design to effectively improve the car body parameters and ensure the safety of the car body structure. Reduced weight.