Christmas Electric Bike/Scooter/Skateboard Group Ride!!
We’re not going to say they copied us (cough Re/Charge cough), but this English Christmas electric group ride looks bloody brilliant!!
We’re not going to say they copied us (cough Re/Charge cough), but this English Christmas electric group ride looks bloody brilliant!!
2018 Year of The Scooter: Love them or hate them, you knew they were coming…the year-end scooter retrospectives! CityLab, Vox, Forbes, The Verge, The Atlantic
Boring Is Completely Upside-Down: To solve urban mobility do the complete opposite of what Elon Musk proposes – Part 1
Make infrastructure sexy again: LA CoMotion panelist Rudy Salo connects the dots between mobility and our attitudes towards paying for great infrastructure
Over the last decade, Elon Musk has been crying out his solution to urban mobility from the mountaintops. His vision is replacing our polluting, fossil fuel based cars with electrified cars and replacing (very) fallible human drivers with machine learning algorithms. At first glance, not terrible ideas.
Now having lived in Los Angeles for the past few years, he’s noticed another problem with our urban mobility: traffic. So he has another solution: tunnels. Lots of them.
His solutions are dead on. That is if you take his ideas and do the exact opposite!
Love scooters? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
Full-sized electric scooters are what Birds/Limes want to be when they grow up! And Gogoro seems to have nailed this product category.
Zippy acceleration, fantastic design, swappable batteries, we can’t wait until they’re available in the States!
After months of development, we’re thrilled to announce Have A Go’s micromobility discovery engine!!
A Micro History:
We started Have A Go early last year…before dockless scooter sharing blew up.
It all started with a design challenge: getting rid of cars in large, sprawling, car-centric Los Angeles without relying on unproven new technology or massive new infrastructure spending with the aim of showing that if it can be done in LA, it could be done anywhere.
Uber’s scooter rumor-mill: While there is no definitive news, the rumors about Uber’s ambitions for a Bird or Lime acquisition continue swirling.
Mother of all scooters: The story of Ninebot, the birthplace of most of today’s electric scooters, and how it never saw the scooter explosion coming.
Yellow Latin Micromobility: Growing out of its first home in São Paulo, Yellow is getting ready to expand dockless bike sharing to Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, and beyond.
Lyft-off: the ride-sharing company expands Citi Bike into NYC’s outer boroughs, stepping on Lime and Jump territory. Where is Mario Puzo, now that we need him?
Uber in the race for micro-mobility: The ridesharing company is looking to secure a deal with either Bird or Lime before the end of the year.
Equitable bike-sharing: Populus report finds dockless bike-share and e-scooter adoption is more popular amongst DC’s low-income population and African-American residents.
We had an incredible weekend at ReCharge/Culver City Art Walk and Roll!
Thank you to the Culver City Arts District BID for organizing and inviting us!!! 🎉🎶🖼🥙🌯🍺🚲🛴⚡️
Thank you to our sponsors Micro Kickboard and LA CoMotion 💚💚💚
Slow and steady wins the disruption: Christensen Institute publishes paper on true EV disruptors being not high-end Teslas, but low-speed, limited range electric vehicles, “hallmarks of disruption.”
E-bikes opposite of “cheating”: Research shows e-bikes still increases heart rates, dramatically increases frequency of riding, and great for overall health.
Back to the future: The Segway was supposed to revolutionize mobility. 20 years later, electric scooters, made by Segway, just might be the realization of inventor Dean Kamen’s mobility dream
Climate lies and fraud: $2tn group of big investors challenge 55 companies over “‘behind the scenes’ lobbying to undermine efforts to limit climate change while publicly backing carbon reduction” including BMW, BP, and ArcelorMittal.