Scooterverkopen at its highest level since 2012, the electric scooter is popular

The sale of a new moustache, and the motor is in the first half of the year of 2020, the highest level since 2012, had grown, appears Wednesday, according to new figures from the RAI Association, BOVAG and the RDC. In total, there were 36.346 new scooters were sold, an increase of 23.7% compared to the same period in the previous year. A fifth of all sales of scooters, it is now electric powered.

finally, The associations point to the coronacrisis as the reason for this is the fact that the scooters in the first half of the year as well as hot sandwiches go. "The coronacrisis is a growing need for private transport. People often choose the comfort and convenience of a scooter, a bike or a motor at the top of the public transport system," according to the association.

one Of the more than 36,000 in sales of scooters is certainly one of the fifth electrically operated. BOVAG and RAI Association, say they are satisfied with the "rapid transition to electric vehicles".

Scooters are the most popular category of the scooters during the first half of the year to 73 per cent of the sales of scooters, a moped or scooter. The motorcycle loses, on the other hand, the popularity-the number of new bromfietsregistraties decreased, this year by 4.9 per cent compared to the previous year, to 9.877 pieces. With the sale comes as the total number of scooters in the Netherlands are now at a little over 1.3 million.

It remains to be seen whether the high sales in the rest of the year, and will continue to write for the trade. The reizigersstromen in the public transport system rather going on your own, and a lot of public transport mijders in the past few months, scooters have been bought, the trade associations do not sure if the upward trend in the rest of the year will continue to rise."