Oddly e-bike prices have continued to rise without a real correction after the covid shortage constrained supply price spike, and the used market is kept from balancing it out through very high replacement battery pricing with various vendor lock in mechanisms. (eg: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1396568/average-e-bike-p...)
Vendor lock-in for batteries is a bad thing, but I'm pretty sure that e-bike prices would be rising regardless because demand is skyrocketing around the world.
Without more data, I think it's too soon to conclude that EVs are outselling e-bikes, at least in terms of units shipped. And the fact that EV subsidies are expiring around the globe puts downward pressure on EV demand in a way that doesn't apply to e-bikes.
Right.. but isn't the relative growth of the respective EV classes more relevant to the hypothesis that it's demand outstripping supply? The prices and battery sizes are a tiny fraction of e-cars so the unit volume doesn't strike me as a like a weighty argument. If it were the other way around, with e-car prices rising faster, we could speculate that it was because of eg cosntrained battery supply.
Oddly e-bike prices have continued to rise without a real correction after the covid shortage constrained supply price spike, and the used market is kept from balancing it out through very high replacement battery pricing with various vendor lock in mechanisms. (eg: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1396568/average-e-bike-p...)