Electric Scooter

"The four-month electric scooter pilot in Chicago, both celebrated and reviled by residents, comes to an end Tuesday," according to an article by Mary Wisniewski "As of last week, people had taken 772,450 rides on electric scooters, according to the citys De…

Bird, the $2.5 billion electric scooter business, is losing its chief legal and policy officer. David Estrada, who was hired last year from Kitty Hawk, is joining another mobility company, SoftBank-backed Nuro. A spokesperson for Bird tells TechCrunch Estrad…

I love a good 40 mph (64 km/h) electric scooter as much as the next guy. But it’s the affordable, 18.6 mph (30 km/h) electric scooters that make up the bulk of the commuter scooters on the roads today. And now FluidFreeRide has announced its newest (and most …

Morph revival will include a revamped female character with brains to help balance out the male heavy programme, creators have revealed.   Aardmann today has revealed the first photograph of the new Morph series set to hit screens in spring, with some surpri…

Its hard to be a bike commuter amidst the busy roads. To make sure that youll surely get noticed by drivers and avoid accidents, you need a lot of work to do, like putting reflectors on your clothes, installing lights on your bike, and even putting on neon ye…

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German police reportedly reprimanded hundreds of revelers driving e-scooters under the influence of alcohol during the Munich Oktoberfest. Law enforcement caught 414 people who had been drinking and scooting. Officers took away the drivers license of 254 of …

(CNN) German police have revealed that hundreds of electric scooter users lost their driving licenses after riding while drunk at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich. A total of 414 people were caught riding an e-scooter while under the influence, and 25…

Berlin-based TIER Mobility has raised $60 million in venture capital to expand its electric scooter sharing service, a sign of how bullish investors remain even as cities struggle to regulate the new transportation mode. Proponents hail electric scooters, an…

On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market, a smaller European rival has also raised some money to grow its own business. Tier Mobility, a Berlin-based startup that operates a fleet of …