As the electric bicycle becomes more and more popular in the United States, a variety of websites, both those that are strictly sports related and those that are more general-news related, are publishing articles on ebikes.
When it come sto general-news related sites, the articles typically start with a history of the ebike itself, then continue on to what’s going on in the industry today.
For example, here’s an excerpt from an article from EW World:
Electric bike efforts were made in the 70’s in China and Japan, but the convergence of technology and price that allows today’s electric bikes really happened in 1994 when Yamaha patented and started to produce the PAS bicycles. The Chinese quickly overtook the Japanese in innovation, volume and use- breaking a million units per year about 8 years ago. The rest of the world has only started using electric bikes in large numbers in the last 4-5 years.
Read more at: The Coming Age of the Electric Bicycle
