Electric Scooter

Electric scooter providers JUMP, Lime, Scoot and Spin have just been granted permits to operate their respective services in San Francisco beginning Oct. 15, 2020. This is part of the city’s longer-term permitting program for electric scooters. Each scooter …

Travis VanderZanden is perhaps one of the best known electric scooter startup founders in the business. Although his business, Bird, competes with the likes of Uber and Lyft these days, VanderZanden has been all-in on micromobility since 2017, when Bird deplo…

Riding an electric scooter should be fun and safe. One scooter company is trying to encourage helmet use. VeoRide, a Chicago-based e-scooter share company, announced a helmet detection tool coming to its scooter rental app next year. Using AI, users scan the…

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Mercedes-Benz electric scooter coming in early 2020 - Roadshow

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Mercedes-Benz quietly announced at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show that it’s jumping on the micromobility bandwagon with an electric scooter. Micromobility refers to short-distance transport, usually less than five miles. With urbanization on the rise, the ma…

A 23-year-old man has died after falling off an electric scooter in downtown Auckland on Monday. The death is believed to be the first ever from an electric-scooter in New Zealand. Police have tonight confirmed the man's death. "Our thoughts are with th…

A woman died Tuesday after being hit by a truck, just before 7:00 a.m., in Harvard Square. In the subsequent 12 hours, I experienced three separate pedestrian traffic incidents in that vicinity: At around 7:30 a.m., a rider on an electric scooter crossed Ma…

Leave it to Lyft to remain in lockstep with Uber in its championing of multimodal forms of transportation. The San Francisco company today announced that it’s adding bike lanes to the Lyft app (starting with iOS) in every market where it has bikes or scooters…