As the old joke goes, we can predict everything except the future – but that
doesn’t stop us trying at Electric Bike Report anyhow. Many of the trends we outlined for 2022 at the end of 2021 did happen – but most weren’t really difficult to predict as they were signalled in advance – think single speed e-bike launches and battery recycling.
Trickier to predict are those more complex developments that have been bubbling away on the back burner for some time but the cost of production may still be prohibitive or they may need the final piece of functionality perfecting before a mass rollout. Some of these have been on the horizon for a number of years but sometimes it seems to be a constantly moving horizon. Still, in some cases we do seem to be genuinely nearer mass adoption in 2023….