Electric Scooter

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…

Evan Laine was ticketed by police for riding his electric scooter without insurance. Photo by Darren Stone/Times Colonist When police stopped Evan Laine while he was riding his electric scooter on Finlayson Street in Victoria to hand him a $600 ticket, the o…

Raise your hand if this has happened to you: Youre walking up to a crosswalk, reaching over to push the button and have to jump out of the way of a scooter zipping along the sidewalk. Or you round a corner and come face to face with a group of…

Wunder Mobility, a German startup that develops a platform for companies and municipalities to create their own urban mobility services, has raised a further $30 million from Blumberg Capital and KCK to close out its series B round of funding at $60 million. …

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Micromobility is more than just jargon for electric scooters, e-bikes, and even electric skateboards. It's a way to keep customers brand loyal even if they've ditched the car.  That's why Mercedes-Benz is the most recent big-name car manufacturer to build it…

The new Karmic OSLO looks like no electric moped we’ve seen before. Half electric bicycle and half electric scooter, this one appears to be straight out of a science fiction movie. When Karmic’s CEO Hong Quan first reached out to me about his new electric mo…