E-cargo Bikes Great Advantages for Companies and Individuals

We list the multiple tasks that agile cargo ebikes can accomplish, to enjoy work and life, saving a lot. Discover their 16 advantages.

Why buying or renting e-cargo bikes is profitable and fun

• • Quicker urban logistics
  • Reduced delivery costs
  • Cheaper and available labour
  • Almost unrestraint access to city centers
  • They witness the company’s engagement for the environment
  • Ideal for street vendors
  • A friendly marketing tool
  • They benefit delivery staff health and fitness
  • Handy & swift to bring children to school
  • Ever thought of bringing granny or granpa for a ride?
  • Your mate to carry leisure and sport tools and accessories
  • E-cargo bikes are cool for going to the beach
  • Easy shopping
  • Nimble and cost-saving taxi for congested city centers and no traffic areas
  • Really effective for carrying around tourists
  • Last but not least: they lessen air pollution and global warming

The E-cargo bikes market is growing

E-cargo bikes sales have been growing worldwide at a 6.7% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) between 2017 and 2022, and they are projected to grow at a 6% CAGR from 2023 to 2028. Such a rate would increase 100,000 e-cargo bikes sold in a given year to 179,000 annually sold 10 years later.

Growth rates are about the same on each continent. Cargo Speed pedelecs are forecast to increase a tiny bit faster than throttle assisted and pedal pedelecs, 6% versus 5.58% and 5.3% respectively. Five large companies account for more than 50% of e-cargo bikes sales. They are, ranked by sales:

1. Accell Group NV, Dutch, owner of the brands Haibike, Winora, Ghost, Batavus, Koga, Lapierre, Raleigh, Sparta, Babboe and Carqon
2. Aima Technology Group Co. Ltd, a leader in China
3. Riese & Müller, German
4. RYTLE GmbH, German

Find the articles we wrote about more than 50 different cargo bikes here.

Quicker urban logistics

Although vans are faster on country roads, they often get stuck in city traffic. Even when there are no traffic jams, traffic lights and roundabouts slow them considerably. Some studies reckon that e-cargo bikes are even 60% faster than vans in urban areas, although we think that can vary according to traffic density, possibility of using bike lanes and so on.

Reduced delivery costs

A comparison of delivery costs by van versus e-cargo bike shows considerable advantages for the latter across the board. Savings involve:

• lower labour cost, since deliveries are quicker
• lower energy cost, urban traffic often boosting van consumption to an appalling 7 km per liter
• lower capital investment, about €5,000 against at least €30,000, hence lower depreciation
• lower operating costs: e-cargo bikes require no insurance, no ownership nor purchase tax; they bear low service costs and slower wear, since city traffic is extremely wearing for internal combustion vehicles.

Cheaper and available labour

As it is already the case for food delivery, e-cargo deliveries can be performed by part-time workers, be they mothers while their children are at school, students, etc.

Almost unrestrained access to city centers

Rare are the streets where only pedestrians can circulate, even bikes being forbidden. Anyway, e-cargo bikes have access also to restricted traffic areas.

They witness the company’s engagement for the environment

What would sure please most customers. To the point of being willing to pay more for the delivery? That remains to be seen.

Ideal for street vendors

E-cargo bikes allow vendors to position their business at strategic locations, in touch with their clients, where vans are forbidden,
they are an effective tool for promotions and advertisings.

A friendly marketing tool

Especially for events and manifestations, e-cargo bikes enable a friendly and direct communication with public at large, be it in streets, parks or gatherings.

They benefit delivery staff health and fitness

Maybe you have never noticed, but the percentage of overweight workers is higher among drivers than among bike riders, no matter which kind of bike they ride.

Handy & swift to bring children to school

No parking hustle, and you bet they enjoy it better than being trapped in a steel cage (car).

Ever thought of bringing granny or granpa for a ride?

The elderly, especially if they have little mobility, simply love it.

Your mate to carry leisure and sport tools & accessories

Tennis rackets, golf clubs, sporting apparel: with your e-cargo, sport and relax begin as soon as you exit home.

E-cargo bikes are ideal for going to the beach

Going to the beach with a car can be painful. Parking places are difficult to find, and leaving the car under a scorching sun is tantamount to turn it into a oven, let alone damage inflicted to its painting and rubber parts. A cargo ebike is very handy to take all the stuff normally necessary to enjoy your day on the beach.

Easy shopping

Not only you can park your E cargo bike next to the shops, but walking with your purchases in those huge shopping malls and commercial centers can be tiring and time-consuming, because you also have to reach the parking lot. It’s uch easier and more pleasant to ride.

Nimble and cost-saving taxi for congested city centers and no traffic areas

Especially cargo e-trikes can be used to transport at least one adult

Really effective for carrying around tourists

In many touristic cities and resorts, there are so many things to be seen in a small area, and cargo e-trikes let people enjoy every single meter of beautiful places, monuments and buildings.

Last but not least: they lessen air pollution and global warming

That is needless to say, isn’t it?