Electric Scooter

Scooters are electric vehicles, so there are a few things you should and shouldn't do if you get one. First, if you've never ridden an electric scooter and are nervous about shelling out for one, try a rideshare service. Companies like Lime, Lyft, and Bird let you grab an escooter…

Published: 9:32pm, 9 Apr, 2023 Updated: 3:38am, 10 Apr, 2023 Read More

PARIS — Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to banish the French capital’s ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters from their streets. The 15,000 opinion-dividing mini-machines are now expected to vanish from central Paris at the end of August when the city’s contracts with the three operators expire. The question City Hall asked voters…

PARIS — An overwhelming majority of Parisians voted to ban electric scooters from the streets of the French capital on Sunday, in a non-binding referendum that city authorities have said they would follow. The ban won between 85.77% and 91.77% of the votes in the 20 Paris districts that published results, according to…

PARIS -- The wheels may be about to come off Paris' ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters. Zipping around the City of Light on one of them, wind in the hair, or romantically but naughtily e-scooting à deux on one machine when the gendarmes aren't looking could soon be over if Parisians…

/ Europe Issued on: 29/03/2023 - 16:16 France unveiled a new regulatory plan for e-scooters on Wednesday © GERARD JULIEN / AFP France increased the minimum age for using an electric scooter from 12 to 14 on Wednesday ahead of a weekend vote in Paris on whether to ban rental…

France is set to raise the minimum age to use an electric scooter from 12 to 14, its transport minister has said, ahead of a weekend vote in Paris on whether to ban the devices. The government is poised to unveil a new regulation plan for e-scooters on Wednesday which…

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A MADE in Chelsea star has been left fuming after a thug stole his jacket and electric scooter. Harvey Armstrong, 27, was at an event with his team during the early hours of Saturday morning when their office on Kings Road, Chelsea, was broken into. 5 Harvey Armstrong's Chelsea office…