Electric Scooter

Sources: Bird lost about $100M in the first quarter, with revenue shrinking to about $15M, and the company told people that it has about $100M in cash left (The Information)

Boosted, the startup that got its beginnings with electric skateboards, has officially taken its first stab at electric scooters with the launch of the Boosted Rev. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks riding the Rev around the streets of San Francisco and, a…

A man who was struck and left unconscious last month by an unknown individual riding the wrong way on an electric scooter is taking legal action for the riders data. Allyson Medeiros, a 32-year-old Chicago-based tattoo artist, was biking home after work in t…

Shareable electric scooter programs have started to roll out into U.S. cities, leading to debate over whether their benefits outweigh the potential consequences. The Onion looks at the pros and cons of shareable electric scooters. PRO Sturdy, but still ligh…

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the tax proposals in the Union Budget for FY20 on fossil fuels and electric cars must push people to avoid polluting fuels and adopt either electric vehicles or public transport. Sitharaman in …

The Taiwan-based company already sells its Smartscooters in Taiwan, and it operates ridesharing programs in Berlin and Paris. In those cities, Gogoro works with Coup (a subsidiary of automotive-parts supplier Bosch). In Taiwan, GoShare will be fully owned and…

A customer has been barred from a Texas Walmart Supercenter after officials say she refused to pay for a cake that she had already partially eaten inside the store. The woman had entered the store in Witchita Falls and gobbled up half of a cake while walki…

The city of Chicago has cited four electric scooter vendors for failing to properly spread the devices around the pilot area. Under the citys pilot program for shared electric scooters, vendors must keep scooters within a 50-square-mile pilot area located we…

While hopping on an electric scooter to get from point A to point B is a popular mode of transport in many cities around the country, there also appears to be an increasingly aggressive backlash growing against e-scooters from the likes of Lime, Bird, Uber, a…

NEW YORK (AP) — We've all seen reports about head injuries, traffic accidents and even deaths that electric scooter riders have suffered as the popular new mobility option has pushed onto the streets in more than 100 cities worldwide. Despite the dangers, ri…