Delivery problems / lack of chips plagues manufacturers of e-bikes

First it hit the automobile trade, now the dearth of chips can also be having an influence on bicycle producers. E-bike manufacturing has slowed. And there are different issues.

The chip scarcity within the trade has gripped the bicycle producers. In accordance with the two-wheeler trade affiliation, there are actually additionally delays within the manufacturing of electrical bikes.

“With e-bikes, we’ve got a chip downside just like that within the automobile trade,” stated Managing Director Burkhard Stork when requested. “It’s not the batteries which might be lacking, however the chips for controlling the battery cost and for the shows.”

Many e-bikes can’t be delivered

That’s why there may be at present a manufacturing backlog – “and plenty of e-bikes can’t be delivered”. The provision chains within the bicycle trade have been disrupted for the reason that starting of the corona pandemic.

“It jerked earlier than the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, but it surely jerked collectively comparatively nicely,” Stork stated. “We truly assumed that the scenario would normalize once more inside the subsequent 18 months.” However for the reason that starting of the conflict, the supply issues have worsened considerably. “That is additionally because of the truth that there aren’t any truck drivers.”

Many works stood nonetheless

A lot of bicycle components are delivered to Europe from East and Southeast Asia – not solely by Asian producers, but additionally by German producers who’ve vegetation there. “In nations with strict corona restrictions equivalent to China, Malaysia, Singapore or Vietnam, many vegetation have been shut down at occasions prior to now two years, in order that parts and components are lacking,” defined Stork.

“The present lockdowns in China are resulting in supply delays once more. That’s why manufacturing plans should be modified at brief discover. That impacts the substance on each side,” stated the ZIV managing director on the scenario amongst bicycle producers and sellers.