E-bike market is emerging and it's a welcome sign for the greener environment.But young legs always feels there should be a fire while biking so its a pitfall for the manufactures and we deeply look in to these we can create a wonderful opportunity to develop in this sector. there is a vast to happen in this field to make everyone to look on this segment. Its a biggest challenge for the Engineering emerging sector to deliver more than a fossil fuel bikes.
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Thiyagarajan , Engineer-Design, Flowserve
| 02 04 2011 14:37:59 +0000
Expect the demand to grow. As of now rural India is mostly unaware while in urban India hardly safe and sufficient place is available. Those who use bikes mostly do for exercise or affordability and on this score volumes may help bring the costs down.Many Cycle users may not have easy access to electricity for charging in office and public places.
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Ravindra Sharma, Managing Consultant, CHEF-India
| 02 03 2011 10:20:27 +0000
E-bikes is a long way off to become commercially successful and the demand growth will be tepid. E-bikes will be a good alternate in some countries where excess power is there and a need to limit use of petro products.But if petro demand reduces, naturally its price will fall and as long as it remains cheaper, it will be difficult for e-bikes
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Kannan N, Freelancer, Freelancer
| 02 03 2011 10:15:52 +0000
Power scenario in India is not that great. Who guarantees you availability of power 24/7, however, petrol or diesel is available in the radius of every one or two kilometers, albeit at a higher cost! Unless and until we have uninterrupted power availability, E-bike is a distant dream only - those who owns it are struggling to re-charge!
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S. Muralidharan, Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner
| 02 01 2011 12:37:53 +0000
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There will be stagnation for e-bike for the time being.the reason is simple.the manufacturer claims that a charged bike may run for about 70kms.now if the charge is over where is the charging station which is a new concept.so if the bike stops at the middle of the road,what we can do,we have to curse overself wite the corus of other road users.so the aim will become save rs.60 for petrol and loose 100% pease
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BALASUBRAMANYA , Asst. Manager/Manager (Technical), KIOCL ltd.
| 02 02 2011 14:33:23 +0000
For the time being e-bike will stagnate. The reason is that by opting for e-bikes we simply transfer the economic burdwen (for our wallets) from the petrol pump to the electricity board. The thing that is required is to use the motive power of the bike itself to generate power and recharge the bike while it is running. The dependency on the electrical power from the mains must be reduced significantly till it actually translates in to actual saving for both our wallet as well as for the environment. All that proliferation of e-bikes will now achieve is a demand for more power generation which is already in short supply.
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RAMESH KANDADAI, Principal Consultant, ARM Consultants
| 02 02 2011 03:03:39 +0000
As per present automobile two wheeler industry (E-bike market) scenario, e-bike market will stable, neigther will grow nor will decline. However fuel price is hike day by day still it will not grow. Mostly young people are prefer bike and female, teenager female will also mostly prefer either honda activa, wego, pleasure, scooty pep, mahindra rodeo etc.
So, it is difficult to break this market but if e-bike company will focus on proper branding then it may possible. Still company has also fear that if they will more focus on e-bike then it might be effect on existing brand. ....
For e-bike it is good that different and stable market ot grow very slowly...
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Virag Shah, Confidential
| 02 01 2011 10:03:30 +0000
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