Electric Scooter

Electric scooter company Bird is flying south for the winter, and it might be a very different kind of fowl by the time it returns. The Miami, Florida-based micro-mobility company known for allowing rambunctious, helmetless e-scooterists to fly down city streets declared bankruptcy Wednesday, saying it was entering into a…

WASHINGTON - US electric scooter rental company Bird announced on Wednesday that it filed for bankruptcy protection as the once-hot startup reorganizes itself. The reorganization, which affects US operations but not Bird's holdings in Europe and Canada, will entail the sale of assets, according to a press release describing a…

If a new e-bike or electric scooter is on your shopping list this holiday season, check out these currently available Black Friday offers. The items listed here have been tested and reviewed by us, are currently being tested, or are related to a product line we've tested. Most of the…

When someone mentions riding a scooter in 2023, they’re probably not talking about the tiny kick scooters that were everywhere in 2000. The recent boom in electric scooters has seen the small, two-wheel transportation pop up all over the place. The simplicity, small size, ease of travel and low price…

Honda is looking to redefine mobility by doing a modern take on a unique classic with the Motocompacto e-Scooter. While it looks like a mobility concept of what Honda envisions people riding around on in the late 2030s, it’s not. You’ll actually be able to buy this thing in a few months. Honda’s Inspiration…

The divide between the motorcycle and scooter communities has long been deep, as illustrated in the classic 1979 rock flick Quadrophenia, which depicted the strife between the scooter-riding mods and the motorcycling rockers. Today, there probably aren’t any actual brawls, but you don’t see a lot of crossover between people…

Updated September 2, 2023 at 11:34 PM Published September 2, 2023 at 10:40 AM PARIS – As Paris’ experiment with e-scooters came to an end on Friday, Ms Anne-Marie Moreno set out on her morning walk feeling just a little more peaceful. Ms Moreno, a 78-year-old retiree who was knocked…

Paris has bid adieu to rented electric scooters, becoming the first European capital to ban the “free-floating” vehicles from its streets five years after it was the first to introduce them. The last of the French capital’s 15,000 trottinettes were loaded into vans on Thursday afternoon and a ban came into effect…

Rental electric scooters will be banned from use in the streets of Paris following a referendum in April. Ameer Alhalbi/Getty Images The for-hire electric scooters that have become ubiquitous in Paris will be banned from 1 September.While many hail them as eco-friendly ways to avoid gridlock, others consider them an…

Paris feels the floating scooters are too much of a nuisance. Photo: Ludovic MARIN / AFP Source: AFPPAY ATTENTION: Сheck out news that is picked exactly for YOU ➡️ click on “Recommended for you” and enjoy! Parisians woke up on Friday to a world without rented electric scooters, loathed as…