Boss Bird: Scooter-sharing phenomenon Bird prepares for large European expansion, and will be launching in more than 50 cities over the next few months.
City results are in! San Francisco’s successful pilot shows scooters support public transit and Portland’s promising pilot expands with 12 companies applying for permits.
We love this! It’s an insanely customizable, compact electric cargo bike from Blix.
The Packa is on IndieGoGo and has 16 days to go but it has already reached 356% of its original $50,000 goal!!
Leave that giant gas (or electricity) guzzling hulk of metal, your car, at home, and still be able to carry everything you need on just two wheels…including two kids! This is thanks to the Packa’s unique multi-modular racking system.
A major spin-up: Ford owned electric scooter company Spin preparing a major 100 city expansion by year’s end in partnership with Zagster, a leading micromobility operations platform.
Micromobility paradise: Cities are looking to Columbia’s Ciclovía where every Sunday, over 1 million people cycle the streets of Bogotá on 75 miles of the car-free roads.
Young female skateboarders in hot-pink and blue Indian garb rip the streets and gender stereotypes in Wild Beasts’ latest music video Alpha Female.
They’re on a roll!
A major spin-up: Ford owned electric scooter company Spin preparing a major 100 city expansion by year’s end in partnership with Zagster, a leading micromobility operations platform.
Micromobility paradise: Cities are looking to Columbia’s Ciclovía where every Sunday, over 1 million people cycle the streets of Bogotá on 75 miles of the car-free roads.
CEO of InMotion USA Rose Song Wong gives us a sneak peak at the vehicle that can make you feel like a superhero!
And Experience Manager Jeffrey Will gives a demo, showing how the V10F’s 16 inch wheel punches above punching above its weight in terms of performance.
UrmO is like a Segway (or hoverboard) that folds in one fluid motion as you pick it up and is light enough to simply carry around! This portable electric ride seems to be a truly unique, fun, and innovative solution to ther nagging first/last mile problem.
“Electric self-balancing scooter with a patent-pending folding mechanism for your last mile. Created by ex-Tesla and ex-BMW engineers.”
This ain’t our first rodeo: The turn of the century saw a rise in scooters, allowing freedom of movement for riders and sparking street usage issues for pedestrians. What’s old is new again.
Moped diet: Upcoming national weight restrictions for hugely popular electric mopeds in China increase sales due to expected higher costs while accelerating new battery technology adoption.
We review a Scoot scooter in San Francisco!
This new model has airless tires that aren’t solid rubber, but have notches in them to provide additional ride comfort over solid rubber airless tires, without the pitfalls of air tires (constant need for air pumping and/or punctures).
They also have locks, making them semi-dockless. Great for fleet management (helps against vandalism) and great for users, allowing the flexibility of dockless while removing dock anxiety.
Absolutely Populus! San Francisco-based startup Populus raises $3.1 million to expand platform to help cities manage shared scooters, bikes, and cars.
Social credit silver lining? Chinese bike sharing firm Hello Chuxing attributes significant year-over-year drops in bicycle damage to its social credit system, which evaluates user behavior and doles out rewards or punishments.
