40 Million Electric Bikes Spark Environmental Dilemma in China
By ron on Nov 18, 2007 in Project Energy
Grace Zhang is a like many other Chinese women. She is a middle-aged business owner, mother of a young daughter and one of more than 40 million new users of the electric bike, or e-bike, in China. Zhang is among China’s emerging and rapidly motorizing middle class, riding China’s economic growth. She leads a busy life; between operating an English school, transporting her child, and shopping, her day is full of activity. Her daily activities require high levels of flexibility and mobility, needs met by her new e-bike.
Electric bike users have taken Chinese cities by storm, quickly outnumbering the cars and in many cities, bicycles.


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