Electric Scooter

Bird snatches up San Francisco-based scooter startup

Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch’s previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks. “We are thrilled to welcome Scoot to the Bird ecosystem and look forward to working with the Scoot team as w…

Electric scooters are being treated as 'toys' despite them reaching speeds of up to 30mph (48km/h), scientists have warned. Around 32,000 people are thought to have been hospitalised in the US over the last nine years because they hurt themselves using the g…

From June, Lime, the leading French electric scooter brand, is speaking out for the first time about its riders behaviour.  France, like many other places, has seen rising tension over electric scooter users bad behaviour, which has led to negative media cov…

Facial and head injuries from riding electric scooters have tripled over the past decade, according to a Rutgers study. Electric scooter use has been increasing in popularity as an alternative to gas vehicles. However, state helmet laws vary, and the study f…

Why ? An e-scooter design competition is a competition with the purpose to rise awareness to STEM students about the often overlooked topic of sustainability. Why do we need this? Because, we teach our students how to design fast cars, or reliable cars or ef…

Range and recharge times are perhaps the two biggest issues currently facing electric vehicles. But StoreDot is ready to solve at least one of those. The company just showed off its fast charging batteries by topping up an empty electric scooter battery in ju…

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Electric scooter rider killed in Paris amid 'anarchy' claims

Yamaha recently teamed up with the Taiwan company Gogoro to build an electric scooter with swappable batteries. The idea was to take the powertrain that Gogoro has and apply it to a Yamaha scooter. The result is the EC-05 you see before you. The performance …