Emmy takes over Felyx’ German scooter business
Berlin-based electric scooter sharer Emmy has acquired the German business of competitor Felyx. Emmy says this will make it the largest sharing provider for e-scooters in the German market.
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GoTo Global takes over Emmy
The Israeli company GoTo Global Mobility is taking over the Berlin-based electric scooter sharer Emmy. The acquisition is meant to expand GoTo Global’s European presence to reach its goal of expanding to every major European city by 2025.
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Free Now to offer only electric rides by 2030
BMW and Daimler’s Free Now mobility platform aims to achieve carbon neutrality in all key European markets by 2030 and is committing more than 100 million euros in resources over the next five years to the shift toward e-mobility.
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Emmy closes financing + sales deal for 1,500 scooters
The sharing provider Emmy has raised a low double-digit million amount in a Series C financing round. The investment from Munich-based private equity firm Bonventure and other backers will be used to purchase 1,500 new electric scooters.
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Emmy to double electric scooter fleet in Berlin
After Bosch has announced the end of its electric scooter sharing coup, competitor Emmy intends to expand its business intensely. In Hamburg, another 400 new Emmy electric scooters are also to be put on the streets.
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Crowdfunding success: 100 more e-scooters for Munich
Berlin-based Emmy and Green City Energy are expanding their fleet of shared electric scooters in Munich after their crowdfunding campaign is yielding results. Backers enabled the partners to buy another 100 electric mopeds in retro-look and they want more.
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Emmy e-scooter fleet to grow in Munich
The emmy e-scooter sharing is growing in Munich, where the Berlin-based startup has announced plans to expand their fleet by another 400 units. In the Bavarian capital, emmy is working with the local firm Green City Energy.
Read moreEmmy, Car2Go, Scotland, West Virginia.
Berlin buzzes with electric scooters of a new kind as Emmy (formerly eMio) adds the eSchwalbe by Govecs. 450 units of the legendary GDR two-wheeler will join the fleet for all to share from the end of July, thus increasing Emmy’s pack to a 1,000 electric scooters in the German capital. There, the rental scooter market has become tough for the eMio pioneers since Bosch’s Coup. The latter already operates a 1,000 strong fleet in Berlin and had recently expanded to Paris.
electrive.net (in German)
Accelerating EV sharing: A smartphone is all you need to rent an electric car from Car2Go in Stuttgart, Amsterdam and Madrid. All three cities are EV only for Daimler’s car sharing service and clients can now search, reserve and rent the 1,400 cars via app. The phone doubles as key as well and Daimler hopes the process to be much faster than before.
daimler.com (in German)
Six BMW i3 have arrived in Scotland to serve the Scottish Shepherd Chartered Surveyors. They are just six in a fleet of 140 cars but it is a beginning.
fleetnews.co.uk
Fee for PEVs: West Virginia got a new law that charges electric and hybrid vehicles 200 and 100 dollars respectively per year. The registration fee is part of a road funding bill to go into effect on July, 1.
pluginsites.org, insideevs.com
Nissan + DBT, Emmy, Istanbul, PonyCar, California.
Nissan upgrades to 150 kW charging in Europe together with infrastructure partner DBT. The French company has installed more than 2,100 quick charging stations in 36 European countries since 2013 and now received an order from Nissan to prepare these stops for 150 kW charging capacity. Additionally, DBT will deliver its fast-charging stations with both CCS and CHAdeMO standard as announced earlier, and first deliveries are set for September. Nissan’s new found focus on 150 kW has obviously to do with the upcoming Nissan Leaf although its charging capacity remains undeclared. Furthermore, the CHAdeMO association recently announced to get its infrastructure network ready to charge with up to 150 kW, following similar preparatory moves made by CCS initiative CharIN.
insideevs.com, avere-france.org, dbtcev.fr (both in French)
Emmy about to start in Hamburg: Berlin-based Emmy (formerly eMio) expands its electric scooter sharing from Berlin to Germany’s second biggest city, Hamburg. 50 electric powered scooters have been rolled out by now and an additional 150 units are to follow within weeks. According to Hamburger Abendblatt, 500 users have already registered, and Emmy plans to target a third metropolis, most probable Munich, soon. The sharing service works with a mobile phone app and scooters of Spanish manufacturer Torrot. User pay 19 cents per kilometre with two helmets to be found underneath the seat.
abendblatt.de (in German)
Electric taxis in Istanbul: Istanbul’s Beyoğlu Municipality and the city’s Chamber of Taxi Drivers officially welcomed the first electric powered taxis that have hit the roads of Turkey’s bustling metropolis. More Renault Zoe will follow before the year’s end, swelling the fleet’s size to 500 to 600 EVs.
hurriyetdailynews.com, news.xinhuanet.com
PonyCar races ahead: Chinese EV rental firm PonyCar raised 22m dollars just few days ago but plans to launch up to 10,000 EVs vehicles in China’s first-tier cities within a year. The company’s move comes as competitors like Gofun Chuxing and EVCARD are fighting for bigger market shares.
chinadaily.com.cn
Funds for 9 new H2 stations in CA: The California Energy Commission supports the expansion of the H2 refueling infrastructure network in the Golden state. Thus, 17m dollars have been approved to erect nine new hydrogen stations, five of them in SoCal.
greencarcongress.com, energy.ca.gov are
