Mar 9, 2023 - 03:11 pm
Cooltra and Cabify combine e-moped fleets in Spain
The mobility brands Cooltra and Cabify have agreed to integrate Cooltra’s moped rental service on Cabify’s app. The service went live in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, where Cabify is making its first appearance.
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Mar 7, 2023 - 09:58 am
VinFast owner sets up EV rental service GSM
Vingroup Chairman Pham Nhat Vuong wants to promote green mobility by using VinFast electric cars and scooters for rental services. He founded the Green and Amart Mobility Joint Stock Company (GSM) in Vietnam. A company in which he holds a 95 per cent stake.
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May 16, 2022 - 02:50 pm
Go Sharing releases 5,000 e-mopeds developed in-house
Dutch shared mobility provider Go Sharing announced 5,000 new e-mopeds ready to hit the road today. The new scooters look familiar but have been redeveloped by Go Sharing’s R&D department to include features to improve usability.
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Mar 3, 2022 - 12:10 pm
Berlin’s Tier acquires Spin sharing service from Ford
Berlin-based Tier Mobility is acquiring Spin, the micro-mobility service owned by Ford. While Spin has recently restructured due to profitability issues, the move enables Tier’s entry into North America’s LEV sharing market.
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Jan 11, 2022 - 04:05 pm
Ford scooter-sharing Spin to exit all “open permit markets”
Spin, the scooter-sharing service Ford acquired in 2018, is withdrawing from various markets due to unprofitability. This affects Germany, Portugal and Spain, and some US markets. Spin CEO Ben Bear shared the company’s reasoning in an email to staff.
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Jan 11, 2022 - 03:42 pm
Bolt Technologies closes largest funding round to date
Bolt Technology, easily tagged as Estonia’s answer to Uber, has completed its largest funding round to date. Investors poured 628 million euros into the company, which had received another €600Mn in financing only last year. Bolt’s e-scooter hire is but one part of the growing business.
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Nov 30, 2021 - 11:15 am
Paris introduces a speed limit for electric scooters
Paris introduces a 10 km/h speed limit for e-trekkers after a series of accidents involving pedestrians. The speed limit will apply throughout the city, with the exception of a few major streets, and is due to be implemented in the first half of December.
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Oct 25, 2021 - 04:24 pm
Tier Mobility raises $200 million
The Berlin-based micromobility provider Tier Mobility has raised $200 million (171 million euros) from existing and new investors in its Series D funding round.
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Aug 26, 2021 - 01:21 pm
Lime unleashes 1,000 kick scooters in New York City
Lime has launched 1,000 electric scooters in New York City to kick off the Department of Transportation’s East Bronx scooter-sharing pilot. New York will become just the second city in the United States to launch Lime’s latest generation scooter, the Gen4.
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Aug 3, 2021 - 01:13 pm
Bolt collects €600 million in financing
The Estonian company Bolt Technology has raised 600 million euros in fresh capital in a financing round. The money is to flow partly into the food delivery service Bolt Market, and other offerings of the company are also to be expanded.
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Jul 14, 2021 - 11:02 am
Micromobility meets beer-o’clock
A drunk 40-year-old man in Berlin tried to transport a large refrigerator on an electric kick scooter. When police stopped the man, the unsecured refrigerator fell to the ground.
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May 31, 2021 - 11:35 am
Bird announces new scooter and IPO
Bird has presented its new electric pedal scooter and is planning to go public on the US stock exchange. Both major projects are to be implemented in parallel in the summer.
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May 24, 2021 - 01:57 pm
Shared e-mobility: Balancing on the edge of the gender gap
Men use sharing services significantly more often than women. This has many reasons, and chief among them is the gender data gap – a (hidden) lack of gender-specific data. Researcher Ines Kawgan-Kagan knows why and calls for change across the industry as she suggests concrete measures.
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May 19, 2021 - 01:02 pm
Gogoro announces plans for battery swapping network in China
The Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro wants to bring its battery exchange network to China on a large scale. For this purpose, Gogoro has now joined forces with two large Chinese two-wheeler manufacturers. Recently, there was a similar deal for India.
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May 6, 2021 - 12:55 pm
Govecs presents revamped Flex scooter for sharing
Govecs presented a new edition of its Flex electric scooter model especially for use in the sharing sector. The Flex 2.0 comes with a self-developed drive train and a choice of one or two batteries. In addition, Govecs is aiming to set up urban sharing charging stations in cooperation with Swiftmile.
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May 3, 2021 - 01:01 pm
Tier Mobility e-scooters now available in 100 cities
Tier Mobility has launched its service in Kraków, Poland and says it is the 100th city where it made its e-scooters available. Other light electric vehicles are also coming in as the Berlin-based start-up increases its multimodal share.
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Apr 29, 2021 - 04:50 pm
GO Sharing to use €50m for multi-modal expansion
GO Green, the parent company of the Dutch e-scooter sharing provider GO Sharing, has raised 50 million euros in a new financing round. At the same time, the start-up announced that it has just launched operations in the Belgian city of Antwerp with 500 e-scooters.
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Apr 21, 2021 - 12:51 pm
Tier continues to clean up e-scooter operations
Micromobility provider Tier Mobility has partnered with Ari Motors and Ono to electrify the fleet for operational use. Tier staff will employ electric transporters from Ari and cargo pedelecs from Ono to exchange the batteries and kick scooters in the fleet.
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Apr 6, 2021 - 05:38 pm
Dutch Go Sharing launches e-moped fleet in Vienna
The young Dutch e-scooter provider Go Sharing announces plans to offer its services outside the Netherlands as the start-up launches in Vienna. The Austrian capital now has 200 e-scooters available to use in a pay-as-you-go model.
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Mar 11, 2021 - 03:28 pm
Tier Mobility e-scooters can be booked via FreeNow
The Berlin-based micromobility provider Tier Mobility has entered into a cooperation with the Free Now mobility platform from BMW and Daimler. As part of the cooperation, Tier’s electric scooters (kick-scoters and mopeds) will be gradually integrated into the Free Now app.
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Feb 24, 2021 - 10:46 pm
Tier Mobility develops greener batteries with Northvolt
Micromobility provider Tier and battery manufacturer Northvolt have formed a partnership. The aim is to improve the sustainability of electric scooter batteries and their raw material requirements, as well as improving sustainability by means of battery swapping stations and recycling.
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Feb 12, 2021 - 07:14 pm
Voi to trial e-trike & wheelchair device ‘Klaxon Klick’
Voi has announced a new partnership with Klaxon Mobility from Austria, making an electric handbike that clicks onto wheelchairs. By integrating the device into their shared fleets, Voi hopes to expand accessible transportation options, starting in New York.
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Feb 1, 2021 - 05:57 pm
Lime adds shared electric mopeds to the fleet
Lime is adding electric mopeds to its micromobility platform and said it plans to launch as many as 600 LEVs on its platform in Washington D.C. this spring. The company is also working with authorities to pilot the mopeds in Paris.
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Feb 1, 2021 - 04:30 pm
Ireland advances e-scooters + new grant scheme for cabbies
The government of Ireland has launched new schemes for e-mobility. One prepares for the use of e-scooters and e-bikes to become legal. The other concerns incentives for electric vehicles in the SPSV sector, which covers taxis, hackneys, and limousines.
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