San Francisco startup Scoot, one of two companies with permission to rent electric scooters on its hometown’s streets, has been acquired by Bird, a much larger Santa Monica rival, the companies said Wednesday. “We have pursued our mission of electric vehicles for everyone and showed cities that shared, electric mobility is a convenient, fun, and […]
The San Antonio City Council approved several measures on Thursday as part of an overhaul of dockless vehicles on municipal streets. One of the immediate changes is a new limit on the volume of electric scooters and bikes from 16,100 to nearly half that amount. In addition, the city will soon launch a request for […]
BMW is joining the the E-scooter crazy. this September, the company will launch the BMW E-Scooter, The new scooter is a collaboration with scooter company Micro. The BMW scooter sports a matte black finish, has a range of 7.5 miles and can reach a top speed of 12 miles per hour. This power comes courtesy […]
OjO Electric has announced its rideshare scooter launch in Hoboken, NJ. OjO in partnership with P3GM, a global smart city development company, launched a 50 scooter program as part of Hoboken’s six-month long electric sharing pilot program. OjO was chosen along with Lime scooters as the only two companies to participate. The major difference between […]
Legendary and Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt’s try at being a pro footballer may not have worked out, but he has another passion he is now focused on. He has started an e-scooter company called Bolt Mobility. The Miami Beach-based company has quietly joined the growing number of e-sccooter companies vying to be your […]
After pioneering the rent-by-the-minute dockless electric scooter program, scooter share company Bird is now ready to mix things up with monthly rentals. The Santa Monica-based company was the first electric scooter company to reach a $1B valuation, which it achieved less than a year after its founding. Bird operates thousands of electric scooters all around […]
Electric scooters have returned to the Rose City for a second go around. The Portland Bureau of Transportation has issued permits to Bolt, Lime and Spin. Only Lime (the green one) was in Portland for the four-month pilot last summer. Scooters hit the streets last Friday afternoon. All submitting companies had to jump through […]
Electric scooter startup Bird has laid off between four to five percent of its workforce. That comes out to about 40 people of its ~900-employee workforce. This comes shortly after Lyft laid off up to 50 employees in its bikes and scooters division. “As we establish local service centers and deeper roots in cities where […]
New micro-mobility startup OjO is now preparing to roll out their sit-down electric scooter sharing platform in the US. With operations beginning in Austin, Texas, OjO’s new take on scooter sharing could signal a shift in the industry. Functionally, OjO’s scooter sharing model will be similar to those of Bird, Lime and other electric scooter […]
Lyft is teaming up with Segway-Ninebot as it updates its shared scooter fleet says a report from Tech Crunch. Lyft’s scooter service first launched last September in Denver and it now spans nine US cities. And though it first deployed Xiaomi-built scooters, the China-based company later sent Lyft a cease-and-desist letter, saying in October that […]
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