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Published on 12/04/2026

Dr. Gerhardt at his home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina—ready to teach once again. Doc doing what he loved most: guiding students, working with e-bikes, and advancing the industry he helped build. Light Electric Vehicle Association mourns loss of Dr. Gerhardt – creator of the Technician Training Program.  Don Gerhardt PhD, 82, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, […]

Published on 12/04/2026

E-Bike Hall of Fame Inaugurated at TAIPEI CYCLE: Industry Legends Honored forShaping Global Electric Mobility: TAIPEI, Taiwan — The global light electric vehicle (LEV) industry celebrated a historicmilestone today at last month’s TAIPEI CYCLE SHOW 2026 with the official opening ceremonyof the E-Bike Hall of Fame. This landmark initiative, spearheaded by the Light Electric VehicleAssociation […]

Published on 10/03/2026

New data released by Edward Benjamin, Senior Managing Director at eCycleElectric Consultants (https://ecycleelectric.com) and Chairman of the Light Electric Vehicle Association, offers encouraging news for the light electric mobility sector. According to the latest analysis of U.S. import records, approximately 2.2 million complete e-bikes were imported into the United States in 2025. The estimate is […]

Published on 19/02/2026

Edward Benjamin Chairman, Light Electric Vehicle Association Senior Managing Director, eCycleElectric Consultants Thursday, February 19, 2026. Every Year, since the late 90’s, I have done whatever I needed to do to attend this show. When I was just starting in my consulting business, I winced at the strain on my credit cards. I flinched at the long airplane […]

Published on 23/10/2025

Chairman Edward Benjamin LEVA is starting a new activity. We are going to recognize individuals and companies that have been important in the development of the electric bicycle industry more or less every newsletter. Being westerners, we know more about what has happened in the USA and EU. But we respect and look for chances […]

Published on 23/10/2025

LEVA has been interested in, and not very good at, recognizing the contributions of industry players for more than a decade. One of the challenges is: There are so many to recognize! So, we have developed some categories for the awards: I don’t know them all, and I am biased towards my friends and clients. […]

Published on 23/10/2025

This is a scary time for all of us in the bicycle and ebike industry.  While politicians blather about returning production to the USA, and create tariffs that jack up prices of what we sell … most of us know that it would take decades to return such production to the USA, and even if […]