Big mobility data: 15 cities along with founding members Bird and Spin announce formation of Open Mobility Foundation, a non-profit that will take on the Mobility Data Specification developed by LA’s Department of Transportation, to help cities collect, maintain, and standardize data about share vehicles from scooters to cars.
Two become one: Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-rental company, merges its electric and human powered bike-sharing businesses aiming to become more cost competitive in the country’s large yet ultra-competitive bike-sharing market.
Dump that car: As e-bikes get better and smarter, they can become car replacements for many in urban areas, with the option of keeping up with traffic with electric assist or avoiding it altogether via side streets.
Licence to E-bike: Japanese auto-part supplier giant DENSO is leading a $20 million investment in Californian and Swiss-based Bond Mobility (previously Smide), which operates super-fast dockless electric bikes in Switzerland.
Invasion of the cycle-lane snatchers: A nationwide grassroots effort to highlight the need for protected bike lanes is using red Solo cups along bike routes to show just how frequently cars invade bike lanes.
Licence to E-bike: Japanese auto-part supplier giant DENSO is leading a $20 million investment in Californian and Swiss-based Bond Mobility (previously Smide), which operates super-fast dockless electric bikes in Switzerland.
Invasion of the cycle-lane snatchers: A nationwide grassroots effort to highlight the need for protected bike lanes is using red Solo cups along bike routes to show just how frequently cars invade bike lanes.
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.”
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.
We spent $1.1 billion dollars, 5 years, and an infuriating amount of additional hours in traffic expanding the 405. It didn’t work. Not only did it not work, it actually slightly INCREASED travel time: “A traffic study by Seattle-based traffic analytics firm…
As we discussed in our first post, dockless e-scooter and e-bike sharing companies are actually the best thing to happen to the future of the ownership model of lightweight electric vehicles (LEV) thanks to the elimination of several bottlenecks of LEV adoption thanks…
If you still think Birds poop on your head and Lime is for tacos and margarita, you’ve been asleep for the last few months. In that time, e-bike and e-scooter sharing companies have spread their wings into dozens of markets adding some juice to millions of trips. We…
“Nothing has happened at the level of the pedestrian to improve transportation since we invented the sneaker,” Mr. Kamen said.” We think if you could integrate [this] technology into cities it would be a universal win for everybody.” Not one to…
