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One fascinating note from that page, auto-translated into English:
"Ninebot & Segway has a core patent for self-balancing technology; more than 6 million people worldwide use Ninebot & Segway"
Wow, that's a lot of Ninebots/Segways.
I remember when, at SegwayFest DC IIRC, Segway's Doug Field said that new technologies often take about twenty years to become mainstream (think about the automobile, the Internet, etc.)...and Segway seems to be following that same trajectory now.
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Products from the original Segway LLC/Inc struggled to sell much over 10k units per year. Some years a little more, some years fewer. That's around 160k to 170k total units, depending on when you start counting. Either Ninebot accounts for the remaining 5.8 million units, or they are counting something else, such as the total number of people who have ever ridden one.