Here are the best electric scooters you can buy:Best electric scooter overall: Glion Dolly Foldable Lightweight Adult Electric ScooterBest budget electric scooter: Razor Power Core E90 Electric ScooterBest electric scooter for commuting while sitting: Razor EcoSmart Metro Electric ScooterBest for electric scooter commuting while standing: GOTRAX GXL Commuting Electric ScooterBest electric scooter for kids: Razor E100 Electric ScooterUpdated on 11/11/2019 by Caitlin Petreycik: Updated prices, links, and formatting.
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Designed especially for kids, the Razor E100 Electric Scooter is fun, safe, and durable for little ones or anyone just starting out in the electric scooter world.
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And yes, it's a lot of money to spend on an electric scooter when compared to the many $500 (and under) e-scooters such as Xiaomi's Mi Electric Scooter that are available.
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Spin, the electric scooter company acquired by a Ford subsidiary for around $100 million, is launching a new electric scooter with a sturdier frame, improved braking system, bigger tires and longer-range battery.
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Many electric scooter companies don't actually build their own scooters.
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In total, 249 records were explicitly about electric scooter injuries.
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This was was undoubtedly the year of the electric scooter.
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It seems almost too easy to steal an electric scooter.
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Late last year Ford bought the electric scooter startup Spin.
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"Not everyone can afford their own electric scooter," he said.
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Bush uses a wheelchair and an electric scooter for mobility.
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Uber and Lyft apply for electric scooter permits in SF
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Other electric scooter companies rely on Segway's Ninebot, including Bird.
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The company just launched its electric scooter service in Paris.
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"Here comes Hanukkah Harry on the electric scooter," he said.
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But then, the electric scooter quietly slipped onto our streets.
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Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft, Spin and Bird) rely on, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lyft.
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Spin, the dockless electric scooter startup, has a new owner: Ford.
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Like Uber, Lyft is also running its own electric-scooter program.
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Hyundai just announced an electric scooter concept here at CES 2017.
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Photo: BoostedThe new Boosted electric scooter will start shipping this summer.
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BONUS: Xcooter is a rad electric scooter with an unfortunate name
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Audi introduced an electric scooter Monday that could solve that problem.
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She uses an electric scooter to make her way around Brooklyn.
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Los Angeles, where the city recently banned its electric scooter business.
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Greycroft does have an investment in electric scooter company Bird though.
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Save $110 on the Bird ES1-300 Electric Scooter (renewed) — $289.99
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In other words, it's like an electric scooter with cruise control.
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The electric scooter industry has already had a roller-coaster year.
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An electric scooter that doesn't look or run like a kid's toy.
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Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international.
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Deep-fried Twinkies and humans on electric scooter carts were the norm.
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Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft are themselves getting into the electric scooter game.
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Coup is launching its second city for its electric scooter-sharing service.
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Developing... BONUS: Xcooter is a rad electric scooter with an unfortunate name
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Meanwhile, Uber also operates an electric scooter service under the JUMP brand.
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"We're the first permitted [dockless electric scooter] system operating anywhere" Dastoor believes.
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Paris tries to end an electric-scooter-share fracas with new regulations.
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That's twice what electric scooter companies have decided is a safe speed.
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Electric scooter company Unagi has a powerful new model to show off.
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A similar experience led the firm to Lime, the electric scooter startup.
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Unlike the ride-sharing market, electric scooter operators are entirely dependent upon cities.
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And Ford recently helped launch an electric scooter sharing project at Purdue University.
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For months, electric scooter businesses were securing large rounds at even larger valuations.
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Yamaha and Honda have partnered on the development of an electric scooter, too.
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Enter for a chance to win a Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter See Details
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European electric scooter startup Voi Technology raised an additional $30 million in capital.
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Now, the electric scooter craze looks set to gain further ground in Europe.
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Bird's announcement comes ahead of Boosted's anticipated electric scooter launch on May 15.
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The YouTuber Emily Hartridge died after her electric scooter collided with a truck.
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Segway is using Indiegogo to fund the long-range electric scooter Ninebot Max.
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One of the biggest problems electric scooter companies must solve is distributed charging.
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How can an electric scooter ride-sharing company like Bird possibly make money?
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But Uber is not operating the only electric scooter service in Santa Monica.
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And for those purposes, the electric scooter works considerably better than a bicycle.
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My office was evacuated today because an electric scooter exploded and caught fire.
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Uber is partnering with electric scooter start-up Lime, the companies said Monday.
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Electric scooter and bike-share company Lime is not giving up on San Francisco.
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Gogoro is expanding the electric scooter-sharing service it launched in Berlin last August.
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Uber is also eyeing the electric scooter, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi previously told me.
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A 35-year-old YouTuber died in the UK's first fatal electric scooter crash.
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As Vox's Matthew Yglesias writes: the electric scooter works considerably better than a bicycle.
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As it stands now, there are four companies that have announced electric scooter sharing.
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Ford is buying dockless electric scooter company Spin for $100 million, according to Axios.
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The California company claims the Changzhou's device, Surfing Electric Scooter, infringed on its copyrights.
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Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP)Folks, it's been a rough month for electric scooter startups.
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It examined electric scooter trends in the Texas capital from September through November 2018.
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Incident Date: 11/5/2018I rented a Bird electric scooter for the first time.
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It charges customers based on the time and model of electric scooter they choose.
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Uber and Lyft have officially put their respective names into the electric scooter competition.
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It's worth pointing out that Bird, for now, is strictly an electric scooter company.
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Among his new responsibilities: helping Bird, one of the biggest electric scooter sharing companies.
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Though, the pricier and heavier Boosted electric scooter can handle hills with 25% inclines.
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The Ninebot Segway ES4 Electric Scooter is discounted to $629 with the code ES4VERGE.
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The Spanish Volkswagen subsidiary Seat worked with Segway to create it's own electric scooter.
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Spin, the dockless electric scooter company purchased by Ford in 2018, is expanding beyond the US. TechCrunch reports that the company is launching its electric scooter rental service in Cologne, Germany this Spring, with launches in other German cities planned to follow.
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Last month, both Lyft and Uber applied to operate electric scooter programs in San Francisco.
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However, Lee has since joined electric scooter startup Lime as its chief human resources officer.
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Jelly is a new electric scooter company preparing to launch at Purdue University in Indiana.
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Superpedestrian, which you might remember from the Copenhagen Wheel, is getting into electric scooter ridesharing.
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Dubbed Bird Zero, the new electric scooter was manufactured in collaboration with Chinese company Okai.
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For an electric scooter that can cost up to $1,190, the brakes are shockingly bad.
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Carrying nearly 50 pounds of electric scooter with one hand seems like a Herculean task.
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He now relies largely on crutches and an electric scooter to move around the Capitol.
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Lime has been one of the more outspoken companies following the SFMTA's electric scooter decision.
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The data shows 249 people were admitted to their emergency rooms with electric scooter injuries.
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San Francisco has hit the mid-point for its one-year electric scooter pilot program.
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Meanwhile, over in Tel Aviv, Lime deployed its electric scooters, joining electric scooter startup Bird.
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Bird, Uber and Lyft get another chance to apply for electric scooter permits in SF
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Mercedes is far from the first traditional automaker to tap into the electric-scooter market.
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Dr. Tarak Trivedi, the lead author of the study, is an electric scooter rider himself.
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Today, the Committee heard proposed legislation regarding permitting and enforcement of shared, electric scooter programs.
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In Switzerland, an alleged Lime glitch has reportedly left electric scooter riders with serious injuries.
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Here's how SF wants to regulate electric scooters The electric scooter saga in San Francisco
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And then, there is Cityscoot and Coup, two electric scooter services (motorcycles, not standing scooters).
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On top of that, Boosted reportedly struggled to pay its vendors for the electric scooter.
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Once-hot companies like Lime, the electric scooter provider, have pulled out of some cities.
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Bird, the $2.5 billion electric scooter business, is losing its chief legal and policy officer.
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Four electric scooter companies dominate the scene in Los Angeles: Lime, Uber, Lyft, and Bird.
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As more stores go cashless, one electric scooter rental company is going the other direction.
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Go deeper: The side effects of the electric scooter revolution Next up: Self-driving scooters
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Imagine riding an electric scooter to your rent-stabilized apartment, where you enjoy legal marijuana.
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Now, VanderZanden's dockless electric scooter company is the talk of Santa Monica, Ca., where it's based.
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I live a mile away from work, so I usually walk or ride an electric scooter.
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Cities are actively grappling with how they want to regulate bike-share and electric scooter sharing.
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Taiwanese company Gogoro is rolling out an all-new electric scooter called the Gogoro 2350 Smartscooter.
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The company has also joined forces with Lime, an electric-scooter firm, to offer scooter rides.
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Boosted, a company best known for making electric skateboards, just announced it's making an electric scooter.
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An investigation by Consumer Reports may force electric scooter businesses to double back on safety measures.
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Dubbed "Bird Delivery," the new service promises an electric scooter delivered to your door by 8AM.
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Electric scooter and bike sharing company Lime has rolled into Australia, launching in Sydney on Friday.
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A new electric scooter model and a delivery robot will be introduced for the first time.
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But there's no process in place to register an electric scooter, leaving them in regulatory purgatory.
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An electric scooter can travel more than 80 miles—or 333 laps around a football field.
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I start walking to meet up with them, but find an electric scooter along the way.
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The Mahindra Genze 2.0 is an all-electric scooter designed for commuters riding in city centers.
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The EcoReco M5 Air is an all-electric scooter with a top speed of 20 mph.
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Coup sounds a lot like Scoot Networks, a budding electric scooter-sharing service in San Francisco.
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Skip is beginning to test the first electric scooter that the startup built entirely in-house.
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He was caught by the police as he tried to make his escape via electric scooter.
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A charging electric scooter exploded in Dropbox's San Francisco office on Wednesday, forcing employees to evacuate.
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It looks like Bird is using the Mi Electric Scooter as the base of their platform.
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Why it matters: New developments suggest a consolidation phase is coming in the electric scooter wars.
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I mean, is this idea any sillier than valuing an electric scooter company at $2 billion?
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Bird, the electric scooter company, is testing a new in-app purchase capability called Bird Pay.
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The two most popular electric scooter rental companies, Lime and Bird, were both founded in 2017.
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Last year, the startup announced its second product would be an electric scooter called the G1.
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Greycroft, which focuses primarily on private equity, does have a stake in electric scooter company Bird.
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Bird-owned scooter operator, Scoot, has just released its next-gen electric scooter, the Bird Two.
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Travis VanderZanden is perhaps one of the best known electric scooter startup founders in the business.
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Jump has also joined the electric scooter trend and offers them for rent in many cities.
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Ford Motor Co. has agreed to buy electric scooter startup Spin, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Unfortunately, the sight of an electric scooter submerged in water isn't an altogether unfamiliar image in 2019.
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Lime, the electric scooter and bike-share startup, is expanding its program for people with low incomes.
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The latest is Unicorn, a stylish $699 electric scooter from the co-creator of gadget tracker Tile.
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That came shortly after electric scooter startup Bird raised a $300 million round led by Sequoia Capital.
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Superpedestrian, makers of the Copenhagen Wheel, is today emerging with a sturdier, safer and smarter electric scooter.
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Despite Lyft and Lime's efforts, the great electric scooter rollout of 2018 is still happening on Monday.
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R. doesn't feel like walking home, so we take an electric scooter (think Vespa, not Razor) instead.
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Electric scooter maker Gogoro has closed a massive $300 million Series C round to expand its service.
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The measures are supposed to clean up the sidewalks in a city overrun by electric scooter startups.
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Lime, the electric scooter and bicycle company, is going "lime green" by becoming a carbon neutral business.
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Mahindra's electric scooter, the GenZe 2.0 Signs of the future of rideables didn't just appear with scooters.
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Electric scooter-sharing startup Bird has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Craft Ventures.
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Vespa will make an all-electric scooter to be sold sometime in the latter half of 2017.
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Like its chief US rival Lyft, Uber has jumped on the electric scooter trend in recent months.
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In addition, electric scooter companies don't typically release the number of customers or rides, to the public.
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Have a seat and commute in comfort and style on the Razor EcoSmart Metro Electric Scooter. Pros:Cons:
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Check out the Immotor GO Intelligent Portable Foldable Luxury Electric Scooter on Amazon for $1,499 See Details
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is gearing up to present its proposal for electric scooter permitting.
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Electric scooter startup Bird got its start with this exact model but has since unveiled custom scooters.
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This means San Franciscans will be able to use electric scooter services again first thing next week.
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Both Uber and Lyft have been laying the groundwork for the electric scooter business in San Francisco.
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Don't expect to evacuate Miami on an electric scooter ahead of Hurricane Dorian's impending landfall this weekend.
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Another common mode of transportation was electric scooter from two of the major companies, Bird and Lime.
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And besides, they're legal, because San Francisco's rulers never thought to make rules regulating electric scooter sharing businesses.
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When you imagine riding a Segway MiniPro electric scooter, your biggest concern is probably falling on your face.
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Apple and Bird are working together to make the process of renting a dockless electric scooter even easier.
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Just over one-third of people in the survey said they would use a dockless electric scooter again.
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Ford recently acquired e-scooter startup Spin after helping launch an electric scooter-sharing project at Purdue University.
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Electric skateboard startup Inboard Technology no longer plans to sell its upcoming Glider electric scooter directly to consumers.
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I take a $28 electric scooter home from the nail salon, which is about a mile from home.
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" Or as Euwyn Poon, cofounder of electric scooter company Spin, refers to it, "innovating on the regulatory side.
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When electric scooter startups Bird, Lime, and Spin zipped through San Francisco, they split the city in two.
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But absent the bad behavior spurring backlash, many who try dockless electric scooter and bike rentals love them.
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BMW's motorcycle division is bringing the updated version of its C evolution electric scooter to the United States.
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For more information about electric scooter regulation in San Francisco, be sure to check out my previous coverage.
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I paid a small fortune to some guy in the Mission to peel it off his electric scooter.
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Spin, the electric scooter company recently bought by Ford, still won't be able to operate in San Francisco.
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" Spin: "Spin is deploying electric scooter programs across American cities and part of this depends on foreign manufacturing.
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Electric scooter startup Spin was long considered to be a bit of an underdog in the micromobility space.
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Ojo, a California electric scooter company, announced its intention to acquire Gotcha, a scooter and bike rental service.
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Unagi, the Japanese word for freshwater eel, burst on the scene last year with a $990 electric scooter.
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But another popular gadget — the shared electric scooter — is not coming to the city as some had hoped.
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I've no idea what kind of market exists for an electric scooter adorned with a Mercedes-Benz logo.
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It's $1,000 electric scooter is based on a Chinese-made prototype call SWAN that never went into production.
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But Khosrowshahi has plowed the savings back into its freight-hauling, food-delivery, and electric scooter and bikes businesses.
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In Estonia, one business has developed an electric scooter that it says can fold up in two seconds flat.
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YouTube star Emily Hartridge died Friday morning at the age of 35 in an electric scooter collision, CNN reported.
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Electric scooter companies are known to brag about their potential to reshape cities by reducing car congestion and pollution.
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All customers who plunked down a $349 deposit for the $1,299 electric scooter will be refunded, the company says.
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Most of the scooter companies are using rebadged versions of existing electric scooter models that are already for sale.
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That business model is now being used by electric-scooter services like Bird in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Ninebot's Segway ES2 electric scooter is commonly used by popular scooter-sharing services like Lime, Bird, Uber, and Lyft.
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Other products announced include Xiaomi Band 3, our wildly popular fitness band, as well as Mi Electric Scooter. pic.twitter.
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Currently, Skip and Scoot are the only two companies permitted to operate shared electric scooter services in the city.
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Electric scooter startup Bird has laid off between four to five percent of its workforce, The Information first reported.
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Over the last few months, Bird has been aggressively trying to capture more parts of the electric scooter market.
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A YouTube star and presenter was killed after a crash between an electric scooter and a truck in London.
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The timing is unfortunate, given that the first electric-scooter fatality in the UK made headlines over the weekend.
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Uber and Lyft are both eyeing an entrance into the burgeoning electric scooter business, the companies confirmed to CNBC.
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Trivedi: Overall, we found 249 emergency-department visits that were associated with an electric-scooter use of some sort.
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In the coming weeks, San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency should notify companies when electric scooter operators can resume business.
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Bird has made another key hire as it looks to spread its electric scooter rental business across the nation.
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URB-E is a foldable electric scooter that first launched in prototype-form back at CES in January 43.
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This comes after Spin appealed the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's decision regarding electric scooter permits in the city.
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In SF, the MTA is currently reviewing permit applications from electric scooter companies looking to operate in the city.
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Uber says its users will eventually be able to order an electric scooter, via a strategic partnership with Lime.
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Boosted, the maker of the electric skateboard Boosted Board, has unveiled its next mode of transportation: the electric scooter.
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Bird, Lime, Lyft, Uber and others have applied for permits to operate electric scooter-share services in San Francisco.
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An electric scooter start-up called Bird is raising new funding that would value the company at $2 billion.
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Brad Bao will become C.E.O. of the electric scooter company Lime, taking over from fellow co-founder Toby Sun.
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Tech giants Uber and Google-parent Alphabet offered their blessing to the red-hot electric scooter industry this week.
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Regardless of the laws or rules governing scooter safety, the reality of riding an electric scooter is tremendously dangerous.
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If e-scooters have invaded your town like they have mine, you've seen Xiaomi's Mi Electric Scooter in action.
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Don't confuse the eScooter with Ninebot's smaller electric scooter lineup that became ubiquitous in the e-scooter rental industry.
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But once you get over that—it may take a few minutes—the folding electric scooter is worth a look.
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In February, Spin officially entered the electric scooter space after first deploying stationless bikes in South San Francisco and Seattle.
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Earlier this month, the city of San Francisco laid out its requirements for companies seeking to obtain electric scooter permits.
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This isn't the first scooter sharing service in Berlin — or even the first electric scooter sharing service in the city.
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Regulatory challenges for these electric scooter companies abounded in Santa Monica, San Francisco, Austin and other cities around the country.
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The design of the electric scooter itself has been around for years, but it was often marketed as a toy.
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Unlike the other electric scooter startups that have cropped up over the past year, Unagi is taking a different approach.
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Journalists could pay attention to young and scrappy startups as much as the new electric scooter startup in San Francisco.
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Cityscoot operates an electric scooter-sharing service in Paris and plans to expand to other cities in France and Europe.
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Most recently, he signed on as an investor and board member at Bolt Mobility, an electric scooter business in Florida.
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But you can skip all of that by entering to win your very own, 100% free Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter.
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And, lo: About a minute and ten seconds into the video, a Lyft-branded electric-scooter—signature pink present—appears.
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Taxify launched an electric scooter service in Paris in September that uses the same app for scooter and ride sharing.
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In San Francisco this month, the electric scooter companies LimeBike, Spin, and Bird all distributed their scooters across the city.
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We're really excited to be launching the UK's first electric scooter pilot – helping connect the Here East campus with Stratford.
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It was impressive back then that you could actually buy and ride an electric scooter for miles at a time.
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Rather quietly, he is also an investor in Grin, the Mexico City-based electric scooter company backed by Y Combinator.
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Today, they're coming out of stealth with a supposedly stronger and longer-lasting dockless electric scooter rental startup called Skip.
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Ninebot by Segway ES4 kickscooter Price: $777 The ES4 is the latest electric scooter from Ninebot, a popular scooter manufacturer.
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YouTube star and presenter Emily Hartridge was killed after a crash between an electric scooter and a truck in London.
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The company recently (and quietly) launched an electric skateboard and an electric scooter — both with price tags of under $400.
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Mercedes-Benz will join the ranks of multibillion-dollar startups like Bird and Lime and bring out an electric scooter.
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New research has bucked claims from electric scooter firms that their vehicles are a particularly green way to get around.
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Users sign up with an app, reserve an electric scooter for quick transport and drop it off at their destination.
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Xiaomi alleges Lyft has referenced Xiaomi's brand in its advertisements and other documentation referring to its shared electric scooter business.
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At least one electric scooter startup is planning on taking advantage of the bikeshare fiasco by doubling its Parisian fleet.
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Best known for its M1 electric skateboard, the "Glider" electric scooter will become the second product in the Inboard suite.
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The last week alone has been filled with multi-million-dollar investments in electric scooter companies like Bird and Lime.
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With more than 300,000 users in China, start-up Niu says it is the country's largest smart electric scooter brand.
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In short, it's less of a car and more of an electric scooter with two seats, doors and a heater.
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It does weigh 22 pounds, which is not light, but that is half the weight of Boosted's rugged electric scooter.
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Bird has announced that it will acquire Circ, a leading electric scooter rental business in Europe and the Middle East.
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For a few euros, you can now rent your own electric scooter and take in Paris at your own pace.
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This comes shortly after electric scooter startup Bird raised a $300 million round led by Sequoia Capital, and after reports of Lime raising $250 million led by GV. Spin currently has a contract with electric scooter manufacturer Ninebot to purchase 30,000 scooters a month through the end of this year, according to a source.
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Chinese electric scooter startup Niu Technologies has filed for an initial public offering on Nasdaq to raise up to $22018 million.
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Electric scooter competitor Bird introduced a similar program called One Bird that eliminates the $1 fee to unlock a Bird scooter.
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Using an electric scooter, they make their way around the store, looking for opportunities to lift boxes of mashed potato mix.
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The company also unveiled its latest model of electric scooter, with anti-theft technology and custom parts meant to deter vandalism.
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A popular YouTuber died Friday morning when the electric scooter she was riding collided with a truck in London's Battersea district.
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Might I recommend this Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter direct from Amazon for $400, which translates to $100 off the regular price?
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In the electric scooter market, Usain Bolt's venture is one of many looking to tap in to the shared transport sector.
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But instead of operating a shared electric scooter network, the plan is to sell these scooters to the players mentioned above.
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Unagi is the Japanese word for freshwater eel, but now it is also a stylish electric scooter for the luxury set.
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Taiwan's tech industry is known for its hardware prowess; one of its most notable hardware startups is electric scooter company Gogoro.
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While electric scooter startups are at a standstill in San Francisco, Lime is taking its scooter service to Santa Monica, Calif.
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The Ojo Electric scooter has a bountiful 25 miles of range, which can be doubled with an add-on battery pack.
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Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch's previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks.
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The Trump administration's latest trade penalties against China could siphon millions of dollars from Silicon Valley's latest darling: electric scooter startups.
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Another 33% of riders said they drank alcohol in the 12 hours prior to any injuries experienced on their electric scooter.
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Weeks after the incident, it's still not clear who hit him or on what kind of electric scooter they were riding.
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Plus, Bird, the electric scooter unicorn doing its best to overcome regulatory barriers, has made its way back to San Francisco.
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Lyft, along with 11 other companies, is currently vying for a permit to operate an electric scooter service in San Francisco.
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Startup capital Extra Crunch TechCrunch's Megan Rose Dickey authored the be-all-end-all story on the shared-electric-scooter business.
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If you thought an electric scooter was an outlandish way to travel, you better hold on — you haven't seen anything yet.
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With its new electric scooter and bike offerings, LimeBike has to also find a cost-effective method to keep them charged.
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Oh, and because micromobility isn't just for startups, Volkswagen decided to launch a kind of weird-looking electric scooter in Geneva.
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The Model Max was designed with the realization that wear and tear is a major issue for shared electric scooter services.
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The Model Max was designed with the realization that wear and tear is a major issue for shared electric scooter services.
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While inefficient and somewhat backward-seeming — someone is probably using a gas-burning car to drive an electric scooter to you!
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Its enterprise clients include the electric-scooter startup Bird, which is using Zeus rentals instead of extended-stay hotels for employees.
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Audi is releasing an electric scooter that combines the handlebar function of a scooter with the rider positioning of a skateboard.
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Electric scooter startup Bird announced Tuesday that it was rolling out a new initiative to encourage riders to start wearing helmets.
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Electric scooter startup Bird announced Tuesday that it was rolling out a new initiative to encourage riders to start wearing helmets.
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In the coming months, another electric scooter operator will launch and another bike-share scheme, this time offering fast electric bikes.
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Electric scooter ride-sharing services are also remarkably cheap: $1 to start a ride and another $0.15 per minute after that.
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The GenZe 23 electric scooter carries one person, a couple big bags of groceries, and a price tag of just $2000,000.
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Xiaomi recently discovered a safety issue with the M365 electric scooter where a screw could become loose in the folding apparatus.
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On Thursday, the city's Municipal Transportation Agency announced the results of a monthslong process to allow on-demand electric scooter services.
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The city of Miami has instructed electric scooter companies to move or secure their vehicles as Hurricane Dorian approaches, reports Bloomberg.
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Caen Cantee, an early employee of Lime who worked most recently on international expansion, has left the dockless electric scooter company.
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You can get $110 off of the Ninebot Segway MAX Electric Scooter with the code MAXVERGE, for a price of $689.
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Customers who feel bold enough to plunk down $3,995 for an electric scooter can reserve one now for a $250 deposit.
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I rode an electric scooter from every company operating in LA, and saw exactly why American cities aren't ready for them
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The big picture: The dockless, rentable, electric scooter trend started with just a couple companies operating in a handful of cities.
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Definers Public Affairs, the firm Facebook used to smear critics, sent emails on behalf of electric scooter company Lime, TechCrunch reports.
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Lime, the electric scooter and bike company, is looking to raise up to $500 million in new funding, Axios reports, citing sources.
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My ride is the URB-E Pro-GT, a $250,220 electric scooter that bills itself as the ultimate in lightweight urban vehicles.
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The electric scooter with the lofty aim of changing urban mobility and the way humanity stores and manages electricity, has reached Europe.
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You can now find the nearest dockless bike or electric scooter around you (not the Bird and Lime kind, the motorcycle kind).
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Only two of the 12 electric scooter–sharing companies that applied to operate in San Francisco will be allowed to do so.
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Anyone who has tried to ride an electric scooter knows the likelihood of finding one with a charged battery is quite low.
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Santa Monica, where Bird is headquartered, is also expected to award four permits for its electric scooter and bike pilot program today.
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That would be an understandable byproduct of riding an electric scooter in a big city in the Year of our Lord 2019.
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Dockless electric scooter company GOAT has launched in Austin after receiving official permits from the city's transportation department for its pilot program.
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Because there are not enough ways to get around major cities and campuses, Spin is working to launch stationless electric scooter-sharing.
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The introduction of the electric scooter marks the transition of Spin into a true multi-modal mobility platform for cities and campuses.
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Since it first launched, the micromobility company has charged $21 to unlock an electric scooter, plus 22 cents per minute of riding.
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Lyft reportedly wants to launch electric scooter service Lyft is reportedly close to buying the company behind Ford GoBike and Citi Bike
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Though the hardware is more akin to a Segway, the software makes using an electric scooter just like using a dockless bike.
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Jake Hazell is still processing the death of girlfriend Emily Hartridge, who died last week in an electric scooter collision in London.
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He's invested in Tristan Walker's Walker & Company, which has since been acquired by Procter & Gamble, electric scooter startup Lime and many others.
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Other electric scooter startups like Lime and Bird have paused operations in the city as well until permit applications can be processed.
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More money goes toward scooters In case you were concerned there wasn't enough VC investment in electric scooter startups, worry no more!
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There, you'll find the Air Aluminum Electric Scooter on sale for just $299 — a 14% markdown on its retail price of $349.
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The study found 249 people were seen following electric scooter accidents at the two emergency departments participating in the one-year study.
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A great starter model for newcomers to electric scooters, the Razor Power Core E90 Electric Scooter delivers power for a low price.
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Here's a closer look at the basic unit economics of Bird, the electric scooter ride-sharing company based in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Uber and Lyft are among the 11 companies that applied to operate an electric scooter-sharing service within San Francisco city limits.
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If Lyft, a ride-hailing company, enters the bikeshare and electric scooter markets as expected, that's three modes of transportation right there.
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The London and San Francisco-based VC appears to be particularly bullish on electric-powered mobility, recently backing electric scooter startup Bird.
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Following the SFMTA's decision to grant Skip and Scoot electric scooter permits, Lime sent an appeal requesting the agency reevaluate its application.
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San Francisco officials on Thursday granted permits to only two companies, Scoot and Skip, for a one-year electric scooter pilot program.
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Rarely without his fedora, he gets around on a red electric scooter and draws his blues and jazz musicians across the neighborhood.
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Last month, the city announced Uber's JUMP, Lime, Ford's Spin and Scoot were granted permits to operate the shared electric scooter services.
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In 2017, electric scooter startups Bird and Lime launched their dockless scooters onto the streets of San Francisco without the city's permission.
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Of the nearly 15,000 electric-scooter-related injuries sustained in 2018, over one-third were sustained by Millennials aged 18 to 34.
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The Cityscoot system allows people to rent an electric scooter from their smartphone, making millions of journeys each year with zero emissions.
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So what does it mean when the prefix "hyper-" is applied to a vehicle of more modest standing, like an electric scooter?
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A word of warning before you plunk down (refundable) $100 for a preorder: the electric scooter market is incredibly volatile right now.
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TL;DR: As of March 19, you can save an extra 15% off a Levy Plus electric scooter making it just $594.99.
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The side effects: 1 electric scooter rider was injured for every 5,000 scooter trips, per a 3-month CDC study in Austin.
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But when I finish an electric scooter ride with Skydio's $150 Beacon remote in my pocket, a huge smile lights up my face.
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Tier, one of a number of electric scooter rental startups based in Berlin, has raised a chunky €25 million in Series A funding.
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FELICIA NIMUE ACKERMANProfessor of philosophyBrown UniversityProvidence, Rhode Island Charlemagne mused about how the electric scooter is making European cities car-free (August 239rd).
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Bird unveiled its next-generation electric scooter on Wednesday that it says will be more durable, powerful, and longer-lasting than previous versions.
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In June, electric scooter startup Bird announced that it would be rolling out a new moped-style electric vehicle called the Bird Cruiser.
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GOAT is currently bootstrapped, but says it plans to continue partnering with local cities to launch its electric scooter service across the nation.
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In early June, companies like Uber, Lime, Bird, Lyft and others applied for permits to operate electric scooter-share services in San Francisco.
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Electric scooter sharing services are returning to the streets of San Francisco — this time with explicit permission from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency.
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The company has a licensing deal with Ojo, an electric scooter startup based in California — though Ojo is only for sale, not rent.
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Meanwhile, transportation behemoths Lyft and Uber have both staked their claim in the electric scooter space, both deploying them in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Santa Monica, California-based Bird is an electric scooter service, providing dockless scooters that users can locate and unlock through a smartphone app.
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Earlier this year, Uber acquired dockless bike-share company Jump and is preparing to launch its own electric scooter sharing service as well.
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Unless you live in a cave somewhere, you must have experienced the hoverboard phenomenon — more accurately called the "self-balancing electric scooter" phenomenon.
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The company's first electric scooter, the Boosted Rev, is built to get you where you're going even if you don't have a car.
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New York City has been a holdout in the electric scooter craze, but after a city council hearing Wednesday, that could finally change.
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Ride is currently the only shared electric scooter operator in all of Brazil, but that will soon change when Yellow deploys its scooters.
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The YouTuber and TV host Emily Hartridge died after her electric scooter collided with a truck in the south London neighborhood of Battersea.
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Despite its name, the e-tron scooter is more of a cross between a skateboard and a scooter than a traditional electric scooter.
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He was hospitalized for more than a month and now relies largely on crutches and an electric scooter to move around the Capitol.
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Lime's ridership in San Francisco is currently on hold as the city reviews permit applications from 12 companies to operate electric scooter services.
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Ola recently invested in an electric scooter startup, and it branched overseas with launches in Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. last year.
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Berlin-based electric scooter firm Tier is a good example of a business which takes the right kind of risk, according to Murphy.
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Electric scooter startup Bird laid off 30% of staff as it tries to keep enough cash to last until the end of 2021.
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VW has an electric scooter of its own, General Motors is making e-bikes, and Ford just acquired its own dockless scooter company.
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Last year kicked off with electric scooter startup Grin merging with Brazil-based Yellow, which had expressed ambitions to get into electric scooters.
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Electric scooter operator Skip is gearing up to appeal San Francisco's decision to deny the company a permit to operate in the city.
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Between 2000 and 215, the number of electric-scooter-related injuries jumped from about 2000,500 to nearly 15,000, according to a new study.
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The Lumos Matrix reimagines the function of helmets for today's electric scooter and bike riders, co-founder and CEO Eu-wen Ding says.
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A rider on a single-wheel electric scooter moves past a person adjusting their belongings on a sidewalk in San Francisco, Oct. 14.
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This is part of Uber's permit with the city of San Francisco, which requires all electric scooter operators to pilot adaptive scooter share.
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Austin, TexasUniversity of Texas star baseball shortstop David Hamilton hit a pothole riding an electric scooter, tearing his Achilles tendon and requiring surgery.
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HURTLING ALONG a "cycle highway" by the River Scheldt in Antwerp recently, Charlemagne only noticed the electric scooter when it was too late.
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Meanwhile, Index said that its global perspective helped it recognize early the potential for Bird, one of the big electric scooter sharing companies.
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Now TechCrunch reports that electric scooter startup Lime hired the same PR firm, which sent journalists emails trying to discredit Lime's rival, Bird.
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Electric scooter hire company Bird is dipping a first toe into the murky waters of London as part of an ongoing expansion into Europe.
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Electric scooter riders must wear helmets, possess driver's licenses, and stay off the sidewalk, leaving that strip of concrete to the people on foot.
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A burglar allegedly fled the scene of the crime on a Bird electric scooter Tuesday and the company is reportedly cooperating in the investigation.
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Electric scooter-share companies like Bird, Lime, and Spin had moved their two-wheeled vehicles onto the street corners of cities around the world.
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This week, Nilay and Verge transportation reporter Andrew Hawkins spoke to Lime co-founder Brad Bao about how the electric scooter revolution will evolve.
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He was caught, however, because he allegedly used an Uber-owned Jump electric scooter as his means of escape after leaving with the cash.
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The Herzliya-based start-up's lithium-ion battery on Tuesday managed to recharge an electric scooter from Spanish firm Torrot in just five minutes.
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That same month, Bird deployed its scooters in San Francisco, San Jose and Washington, D.C. Below are confirmed funding rounds from electric scooter companies.
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One of the most exciting product announcements to happen at the Consumer Electronics show over the past few years was the Gogoro electric scooter.
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Grin, an electric scooter startup backed by Y Combinator, has raised a $45.7 million Series A to operate shared, electric scooters in Latin America.
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Grow Mobility, the entity that consists of electric scooter startup Grin, and bike and scooter-share startup Yellow, has merged with payments startup Flinto.
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The wild space that is the shared electric scooter market continues to grow, and now Lyft is considering getting involved, according to The Information.
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See everything that's on sale today as part of Target's Black Friday Preview Sale below: Jetson V12 Hoverboard & Beam Electric Scooter, $199 (Originally $300)
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Electric scooter sharing start-up Bird aims to open its largest European hub in Paris and hire 1,000 people over the next two years.
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Earlier this week, Bird confirmed its acquisition of Scoot, one of the two electric scooter operators approved to offer its services in San Francisco.
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A video capturing a bride riding pillion on her hubby's electric scooter has made its way onto the internet, but for the wrong reasons.
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The Ojo Electric scooter, while it might help with your personal traffic woes, won't do much to help reduce the overall annoyance commuters experience.
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The electric scooter companies Bird and Lime have responded by suing them in California state court and accused them of unlawfully taking their vehicles.
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Guppy is now partnering with electric scooter companies to organize river clean-ups and is speaking to local authorities about how to improve traffic.
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At the time, it was understood that Lee was retiring but has since joined electric scooter startup Lime as its chief human resources officer.
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And don't forget about Spin, Scoot, or Skip, each with its own smartphone app to unlock, rent, and ride a two-wheeled electric scooter.
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Electric scooter rental company Bird today announced $275 million in Series D funding at what we hear was a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation.
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A high-profile communications executive at Lime, brought on in 2018 amid a massive expansion by the electric scooter startup, has departed the company.
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Over a year ago, images and videos of an electric scooter with enormous wheels and a slanted, off-center frame began popping up online.
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Last week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency granted electric scooter permits to Uber-owned JUMP, Lime, Bird-owned Scoot and Ford-owned Spin.
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This electric scooter startup company has been around for a little over a year and operates in more than 30 cities, according to LinkedIn.
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What we can expect is yet another battle among the electric scooter providers to deploy their vehicles in the highly coveted market of San Francisco.
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Lyft is known for its ride-sharing services, but last year it launched electric scooter rentals in some cities and acquired Motivate's bike-share system.
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Less than a month after announcing that it had raised money, the electric scooter company Bird is already in the market for another $100 million.
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Bird, currently valued north of $22019 billion, was the first electric scooter company to launch, having first deployed in September 2017 in Santa Monica, Calif.
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In February, Spin announced its plans to get into electric scooter sharing before ultimately deciding in June that it was going all in on scooters.
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He spends about $10 a month on Uber and $2000 a month on Bird, an electric scooter company that provides dockless scooters throughout San Diego.
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Electric scooter-sharing (and bike-sharing) services have inundated West Coast cities like Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Francisco over the last few months.
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The electric scooter saga in San Francisco Dott says it's taking a friendlier approach to launching in new cities, again, unlike some of its predecessors.
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Last summer a 90-year-old pedestrian was killed in a suburb of Barcelona after she was hit by two men riding an electric scooter.
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Xiaomi's electric scooter and portable charger, the Mi Power Bank Pro, are available at Amazon, while its Mi Box for TVs are sold at Walmart.
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Uber bought dockless bike-share company Jump, invested in electric scooter startup Lime, and is integrating Lime's scooters onto its app for users to rent.
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Those include its budget-tier Redmi 6A phone and, in its accessories range, the Xiaomi Band 3 fitness device and the £399 Mi Electric Scooter.
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An electric scooter feels like a whole different sort of experience, especially since riders will have the familiar feel of handlebars and a mechanical brake.
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While the company is bullish about self-driving cars, Lyft doesn't try to sugar-coat the risks of its electric-scooter and bike-sharing operations.
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But some police departments and city governments, citing safety and legal issues, are looking to pump the brakes on the electric scooter ride-sharing craze.
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In recent months, safety concerns and deep operating losses have cast doubt on the long-term prospects of the electric scooter and bike-share industry.
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The "Rascal" was never a great name for an electric scooter designed to be a slow, excruciatingly safe means of transport for the mobility-challenged.
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Gogoro, on the other hand, earlier this year expanded its electric scooter-sharing program in Berlin, making a total of 1,000 available in the city.
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If you're a fan of the electric scooter craze and love to travel, you won't want to miss this position with Lime in Lima, Peru.
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When shopping for an electric scooter, you should consider the following:Maximum rider weight capacity: The scooter should be made to support your weight or more.
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The Xiaomi Mi scooter was created for personal use, but it's quickly become the model of choice for a number of electric scooter-sharing startups.
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Lime, the electric scooter and bike-share startup, has pulled some of its scooters from the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe.
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Over in Austin, dockless electric scooter startup GOAT says it's working with the city to ensure its service meets the criteria laid out by regulators.
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Boosted, which got its start back in 2012, made its first foray outside of electric skateboards last year with the launch of an electric scooter.
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And researchers with the Austin health department found that almost 200 people were injured while riding an electric scooter from September to November in 2018.
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Ride-hailing company Bolt will launch an electric scooter service and wants to overtake rival Uber, country manager for Poland Dominik Wolski told Rzeczpospolita daily.
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Electric scooter startup Bird laid off 30% of the company in a scramble to preserve a "cash runway" to last until the end of 2021.
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The capsule summary with an earlier version of this article misstated the amount that the electric scooter start-up Bird is said to be raising.
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Uber Technologies Inc, which also operates a bike-share fleet, and electric scooter company Lime have criticized the city for its exclusive relationship with Lyft.
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It's been frankly painful to watch the US lag behind the electric scooter revolution, so NIU's arrival is something of a sight for sore eyes.
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"All communities deserve access to smart, affordable mobility," reads the sales pitch for Lime, an electric scooter company with a valuation of around $28500 billion.
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Electric scooter providers JUMP, Lime, Scoot and Spin have just been granted permits to operate their respective services in San Francisco beginning October 15, 2019 *.
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"One in five Taxify rides is less than 3 kilometers (1.86 miles), which is the perfect distance to cover with an electric scooter," he said.
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In the recently released security footage, the culprit slides toward the door in a gray electric scooter before a Walmart employee catches on to his game.
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The Santa Monica, California-based startup that pioneered electric scooter-sharing is launching a monthly rental program in San Francisco despite not having formal government approval.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even launched the first study of electric scooter accidents at the request of Austin's Public Health and Transportation departments.
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Dan talks about how cities are cracking down on electric scooter companies, like Bird and Lime: Go deeper: How scooter startup investors justify their unicorn valuations
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Should I be mad at Boosted for ruining my enjoyment of what so-far I found to be a well-produced and thoroughly enjoyable electric scooter?
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I love a good photobomb, and this one delighted me — a woman photobombed a wedding shoot in Omaha, Nebraska, by sliding through on an electric scooter.
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Today, Bird is launching a pilot program in Paris to see how the electric scooter service operates in a city with more than two million people.
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Hyundai unveiled a whole bunch of futuristic things at CES this year: a low-cost driverless car, a bunch of robot exoskeletons, and an electric scooter.
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The result is an electric scooter featuring a "Vehicle Intelligence" system, which monitors the scooter's hardware and reports back to a cloud-based fleet monitoring system.
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Bird, the electric scooter company that first launched in Los Angeles, is reportedly raising $150 million in new financing led by Sequoia Capital, according to Bloomberg.
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First, the UJet: it's another take on the idea of a smart, foldable electric scooter, though it's closer to something like a Vespa than a Razor.
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Testing Notion over the past couple months, it could feel like I was using a Lamborghini to do a task better suited for an electric scooter.
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"To me, this screams that there's concern over Gogoro's success, because Gogoro actually has been pretty successful when you think about electric scooter manufacturers," Citron says.
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Uber recently announced that it would be investing in electric scooter startup Lime, as well as integrating Lime's scooters onto its app for rental to users.
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Sign up to win the Xiaomi Mi electric scooter, a $499 value, for no cost but the time it takes you to finish reading this sentence.
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The company currently has no programs around electric vehicles in India, other than a limited pilot project it announced with electric scooter maker Yulu last month.
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Some of the promises related to electric scooter usage have touched on fewer car trips and better access to transportation for people in low-income areas.
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London's Metropolitan Police said that a woman in her 30s died at the scene after a crash between an electric scooter and a truck on Friday.
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A dozen electric scooter companies have received more than $1.5 billion in investments in total, according to a report issued this year by Boston Consulting Group.
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The Audi e-tron scooter — a name that matches the German automaker's all-electric SUV — combines a traditional electric scooter with the machinations of a skateboard.
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He was caught by police while in the processing of putting on a wig and trying to escape by electric scooter, according to multiple media reports.
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He says that his investment in Berlin-based electric scooter firm Tier is a good example of a business which takes the right kind of risk.
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Bird says it's looking into this, but Xiaomi says it has confirmed the affected units are not active in shared electric scooter fleets at this time.
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Spin, an electric scooter startup, is raising around $125 million via a blockchain-based security token offering (STO), Axios first reported and TechCrunch has independently learned.
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Still, Dr. Juillard said she believed that hard data about safety risks was advisable as electric scooter companies expand into dozens more cities around the country.
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Spin also plans to apply for the e-scooter permit in France next month, as well as explore opportunities in the U.K. for electric scooter sharing.
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Taiwanese company Gogoro teased its impressive electric scooter at CES five years ago, but it has kept its focus trained on its home country ever since.
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Electric scooter-riding millennials in cities are the most likely group to get injured while riding a scooter, according to a new study published this week.
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Electric-scooter rentals will not be coming to New York and the electric bicycles favored by New York City delivery workers will remain illegal after Gov.
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As Britain grapples with heavy traffic, struggling public transport, and illegal pollution, can the electric scooter really remain out of bounds to the law-abiding commuter?
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The electric scooter boom, explained Parades, tweets, and secret bombs: the past 72 hours in North Korea news Jim Carrey returns to TV on Showtime's Kidding.
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When Gogoro first came out of hiding at the Consumer Electronics show in 2015, the attention was all on the slick electric scooter that the company unveiled.
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Electric scooter company Lime is recalling an unspecified number of its vehicles after reports that they might break apart after "repeated abuse," according to The Washington Post.
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Bird, the electric scooter-sharing startup worth $2 billion, is further differentiating itself from the rest of the pack with the launch of custom, rugged electric scooters.
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The leading ride-share company may be eyeing an acquisition of one of two leaders in electric scooter rentals, according to a new report from the Information.
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Police in Dallas say just four people have called 911 for an electric scooter accident since Bird and Lime motorized rideshare scooters showed up in late June.
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But just because investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into these companies in the past year, the electric scooter business is not without its difficulties.
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As mentioned earlier, Ford bought electric scooter company Spin, Uber has a partnership with Lime, and Uber is also reportedly looking to buy either Lime or Bird.
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If you've been on an electric scooter from Bird, Lime, Lyft, JUMP via Uber, Skip, Scoot or others, you're probably familiar with that feeling of impending doom.
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Electric scooter company Bird has demanded that the publication Boing Boing take down a story that discusses a $30 way to hack Bird scooters, citing copyright infringement.
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Those are big claims, but as the electric scooter craze shows little sign of slowing down, these are considerations that are going to continue to be important.
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Bird, Lime's rival in the electric scooter space, raised $300 million in June in a round led by Sequoia Capital, giving the company a $2 billion valuation.
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A UC Los Angeles study from last month looked at two Southern California hospitals and the number of electric scooter injuries reported there for about a year.
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Driving the news: Los Angeles has spearheaded the "mobility data specification," a format for transferring transportation data between cities and electric scooter companies like Bird and Lime.
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There's more money racing into India's increasingly competitive two-wheeler market after electric scooter maker Ather Energy said today it has raised $238 million in new funding.
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Residents in Southern California who feel they&aposve had enough of the electric scooter craze are reportedly resorting to vandalism in an effort to vent their frustrations.
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A bit of background: In early June, companies like Uber, Lime, Bird, Lyft and others applied for permits to operate electric scooter-share services in San Francisco.
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Meanwhile, its U.S. rival Ford Motor Co made a reported $200 million investment in November to acquire Spin, an electric scooter rental firm based in San Francisco.
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As if there weren't enough scooters out there whizzing around, an Austin-based electric scooter company wants anyone and everyone to start their own scooter rental business.
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Grin, the Mexico City-based electric scooter company backed by Y Combinator, is merging with São Paulo-based Ride to further the company's expansion across Latin America.
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But I had a blast when with Mahindra's connected electric scooter at this year's CES, and I've spent the better part of 2016 reminiscing on that experience.
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A dozen electric scooter companies have received more than $1.5 billion in investments in total, according to a report issued earlier this year by Boston Consulting Group.
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Solid and durable, the Glion Dolly Adult Electric Scooter rides extremely well and folds up into a handy rolling unit for easy portability when not in use.
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Wunder Mobility, the Hamburg-based startup that provides a range of mobility services, from carpooling to electric scooter rentals, has raised $30 million in Series B funding.
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The electric scooter wars of 2019 The subsumption of Circ comes after other scooter companies underwent layoffs themselves, and in some cases, struggled to raise fresh capital.
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While Bird is not the first company to come up with this idea, it's the first one to deploy an electric scooter with this type of system.
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Just days after her news conference, a 25-year-old man on an electric scooter was killed in northern Paris when he was hit by a truck.
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The Ninebot Segway ES24 Electric Scooter, a popular choice among scooter-sharing companies like Bird and Lime, is currently $33 instead of $23 with the code ES227VERGE.
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The big picture: A recent UCLA study found that head injuries were the most common among 249 emergency room patients admitted after electric scooter accidents in California.
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Electric scooter start-up Lime has raised a ton of money since launching in 2017 as part of a massive land grab in the fast-growing market.
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Unicorn Scooters (2018 – 2019) Total raised: $150,000 Unicorn Scooters was one of the first fatalities of the electric scooter craze of 2018, though certainly not the last.
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David Hyman, CEO of Unagi, told The Verge that he can offer a $1,000 Unagi electric scooter to any of the 350 people who bought Unicorn scooters.
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New York (CNN Business)Lime has pulled part of its electric scooter fleet from the streets after learning that some of its vehicles' batteries could catch fire.
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Like India's electric scooter and bike startups Bounce and Yulu, Neuron Mobility also designs its electric scooters, but relies on a Chinese equipment manufacturer for producing them.
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Net revenue from overall electric scooter sales nearly doubled in the first six months of this year to 514 million yuan ($75.6 million), according to Niu's prospectus.
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Luke points to the increased appetite for the Gogoro Smartscooter 2 as a good sign that, chosen smartly, certain markets are hungry for a sharp, affordable electric scooter.
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Last week, Spin, a dockless bike-sharing company that brought its wares to South San Francisco last August, announced that it's working to launch stationless electric-scooter sharing.
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Announced in May, Boosted has started shipping its new Rev electric scooter, and â€" oh man â€" does it put all other consumer e-scooters to shame.
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San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bird, Lime and Spin for operating their shared electric scooter programs in San Francisco.
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America's two largest automakers are branching out beyond their traditional businesses: GM plans to launch a lineup of electrified bicycles and Ford just bought an electric scooter company.
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Check out the video above to see him spanking a robot, look perplexingly at a camera toothbrush, and fail to escape his PR handlers on an electric scooter.
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A few rows away from the UJet was a far less flashy electric scooter called the Relync R1 that also caught my eye, but for far different reasons.
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But if you're replacing a car ride, then it has an environmental benefit since an electric scooter uses a tiny fraction of the energy consumed by a car.
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I'm really tempted to take an electric scooter instead of walking, but my husband's voice about always wearing a helmet rings in my head, so I walk instead.
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Lime, a shared electric scooter and bike-share startup, has now raised north of $800 million in total funding, surpassing key competitor Bird's total funding of $415 million.
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New York, a longtime holdout in the dockless electric scooter boom, appears poised to finally allow scooter-sharing companies like Bird and Lime to operate on its roads.
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While at face value that sounds like a gimmicky selling point, Mahindra's electric scooter was proof that a connected rideable can provide you with a ton of value.
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On April 23, Evelyn Ortiz-Luevano was driving an electric scooter with her son, Caiden Reyes-Ortiz, 5, on the back, the Tulsa World, CNN and KTUL report.
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JUMP argued that the SFMTA did not fairly judge its offering against the likes of Skip and Scoot — the two operators granted permits for shared electric scooter services.
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Despite regulatory hurdles on a city-by-city basis, electric scooter companies and their respective services are continuing to make their way to markets all over the world.
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Bird is one of the earliest entrants to the electric scooter sharing industry, alongside rivals Lime and Spin, but ride-sharing giants have indicated they're eyeing the space.
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Recent inventions include a website that matches students with tutors, a self-watering planter, a light-therapy alarm clock, and an electric scooter with a brushless DC motor.
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The Washington Post last year reported a significant uptick in emergency room visits for electric scooter injuries as companies continue their aggressive takeover of cities across the globe.
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The "scooter wars" are raging in San Francisco (and other cities), but one scooter is emerging victorious: the Xiaomi Mi electric scooter, used by several of the startups.
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Though it sports the Xiaomi brand, the Mi electric scooter is actually designed by Ninebot, which was founded in 2012 in Beijing by Wang Ye and Lufeng Gao.
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Boosted, the startup behind the Boosted Boards and, more recently, the Boosted Rev electric scooter, has laid off "a significant portion" of its team, the company announced today.
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It's been less than three months since Bird unveiled Bird One, its next-generation electric scooter designed to be more durable, powerful, and longer-lasting than previous versions.
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Much like Uber and Lyft before them, electric scooter startups have mostly opted to introduce their product in cities without conferring with city officials first — with mixed results.
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With the bill still not signed, officials for Bird and Lime, companies that run electric scooter operations around the world, have met numerous times with the governor's office.
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Lime, the largest electric scooter-sharing company in the world, is laying off 14 percent of its workers and exiting 12 markets, according to a report in Axios.
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Just a year earlier, the crop of start-ups offering electric scooter rentals was hailed as the hottest new thing in tech and the future of urban transportation.
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With the rise of electric scooter companies like Lime and Bird in cities, there has been a sharp increase in the rate of injury while riding said scooters.
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San Francisco-based electric scooter sharing network Scoot tells TechCrunch it plans to share its back-end software with third-party scooter operators in congested cities around the world.
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Spin, the electric scooter startup that Ford bought earlier this year for around $100 million, is gearing up to launch in 100 cities by the end of the year.
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Over the last year or so, shared electric scooter services have gone from being non-existent to almost everywhere, operated by nearly everyone you would and would not expect.
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The toom alliance marks a further step into on-demand vehicle rental services for Bosch, which already runs Coup, an electric scooter rental service, in Paris, Berlin and Madrid.
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Investors, who have poured millions of dollars into electric scooter startups like Bird and Lime, are now pumping the brakes on funding due to the difficulty of the business.
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Sitting astride his electric scooter with a surgical mask strapped to his face, Zhao said restaurant orders have dwindled, while more and more people are ordering from grocery stores.
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The Elettrica Electric Scooter concept, shown wearing just a brushed metal body, is expected to go on sale sometime in the second half of 2017 for an undisclosed price.
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It's sold tens of thousands of scooters, enough to give it 92 percent of the electric scooter market in the cities that it operates in, according to the company.
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Piaggio didn't announce pricing or any new information regarding the Elettrica X, a hybrid version of the electric scooter that the company teased at last year's Milan Motorcycle show.
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Bird is experimenting with a new concierge service, in which the startup will deliver a dockless, electric scooter straight to a person's house or place of employment upon request.
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They're not yet legal in New York City, where I live, but they're all the rage out West, where electric scooter start-ups like Bird and Lime are based.
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The Centers for Disease Control and the city of Austin complete a joint study into electric scooter injuries—and find a bunch of people are hurting themselves in falls.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched the first-ever study of electric scooter accidents at the request of Austin Public Health and the Austin Transportation Department.
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The two companies said they would also jointly update their respective delivery scooter models, which Honda may also manufacture for Yamaha, while also considering collaboration on electric scooter projects.
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Gogoro, a Taiwanese startup helmed by former HTC designer Horace Luke, makes a smartphone-connected electric scooter powered by swappable batteries available at kiosks strategically placed around a city.
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Uber, Lyft and a bevy of other electric scooter companies have been the stars of the 2019 South by Southwest conference with thousands of scooters whizzing around Austin, Texas.
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Swedish electric scooter sharing start-up Voi Technology has raised $85 million from investors, a move the firm hopes will help it reach profitability in the next few years.
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Despite the success, Bradshaw has not apparently been infected by Silicon Valley utopianism except perhaps in one respect: He's swapped his Brompton folding bicycle for an (illicit) electric scooter.
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But inspiration struck after he saw a teen riding around on a Bird electric scooter while blasting "Old Town Road," and he thought about bringing the two worlds together.
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Startup: TierCited by these VCs: White Star Capital, NorthzoneTotal raised: $30 millionWhat it does: Tier is an electric-scooter company that competes with the likes of Bird and Lime.
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The electric scooter boom has been compared to early days of ride-hailing in terms of how it is revolutionizing urban transportation, but the two markets are fundamentally different.
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GrabCycle Beta will offer services from a range of services, including bike-sharing services oBike — which includes Grab as an investor — GBikes and Anywheel, plus electric scooter rental Popscoot.
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Its global customer base includes Viacom, Shell and HP. The electric scooter venture continues to scoot along after also being named one of the top start-ups in 20183.
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In April 2018, California-based electric scooter startups Bird and Lime illegally dropped hundreds of the dockless vehicles onto the streets of Austin before the city could impose regulations.
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Fresh off the heels of its first serious attempt at electric vehicles, Audi has announced the E-tron scooter, a concept electric scooter that you ride like a skateboard.
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Another underwater electric scooter made its debut in Germany on Saturday after a lightweight, handheld e-scooter made a splash at a water tank at the CES tech show.
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The rise of the electric scooter as a method of cross-city travel shows no sign of slowing down as a new rental service launched in Paris on Thursday.
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"We call it Bird Zero because it's the first vehicle we've designed and engineered ourselves specifically for the shared electric scooter space," Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden told TechCrunch this morning.
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Mytaxi, the Daimler-owned Uber competitor, announced today it would launch an electric scooter pilot in Southern Europe later this year, with a full international roll-out planned for 2019.
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Since the launch of its first electric scooter in 2015, Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke has frequently been asked when the startup is going to expand beyond Taiwan.
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Bird is flying into more cities, and as the electric scooter-share company spreads its wings, it wants to make sure it doesn't destroy communities with its short-range vehicles.
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Estonian startup Taxify is rolling out an electric scooter sharing service in Paris this week, with plans to launch in other cities across Europe and Australia in the coming months.
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The Rev is no dinky 25-pound electric scooter, the type that can be rented in many cities around the world (or easily tossed into a river, as it were).
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Japan's Suzuki Motor is working on plans to launch an electric scooter in India by 2020, while Indian motorcycle makers Bajaj Motor and TVS Motor are also eyeing electric models.
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While San Francisco only allows Skip and Scoot to operate as part of the city's shared electric scooter pilot program, Bird has found a way to claim some market share.
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You hunt around your neighborhood to find a scooter, you ride around the city on a silent, electric scooter and then you park it wherever you want when you're done.
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Electric scooter company Bird apologized today for demanding that the publication Boing Boing remove an article about a $30 way to hack Bird scooters, as first spotted by the BBC.
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Musician DJ Khaled recently posted a video of him riding one of Lyft's electric scooter while also promoting his participation in Jay-Z and Beyonce's On The Run II tour.
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Instead of searching for an electric scooter wherever you may be when the urge to scoot hits, Bird wants you to already have a scooter with you. All. Day. Long.
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Gogoro, a Taiwanese electric scooter company led by former HTC executive Horace Luke, has raised another $300 million as it looks to further expand to new regions and product categories.
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In San Francisco, the Municipal Transportation Agency is currently reviewing permit applications from 12 electric scooter services — including ones from Lyft, Uber and Razor — looking to operate in the city.
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As a physician, he once took care of a patient with a dislocated shoulder following an electric scooter accident at the same intersection he crossed on his way to work.
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But, the same dude apparently returned the very next night, ringing the front gate at 11 PM and then hightailing it on an electric scooter when Logan came barging outside.
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Meanwhile, Spin and other electric scooter operators are currently awaiting word from the city of San Francisco regarding whether or not they can deploy their respective scooters in the city.
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In the rare chance of an attack from "dissenters," you will be assigned a Lady Gaga-autographed, pink limited edition electric scooter to escape, roaring ebulliently into the greater Mojave.
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Earlier this week, The Financial Times reported that the holding company directly invested in electric-scooter startup Lime, even as its venture capital arm, GV, led the startup's funding round.
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The electric scooter industry has become increasingly crowded as Spin, Uber's Jump and Bird jockey for market share with Lime, deploying thousands of dockless scooters in cities around the world.
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In Elizabeth, a 16-year-old boy became the first person killed while riding a shared electric scooter in New Jersey when he collided with a tow truck in November.
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As of June, Spin had a contract with electric scooter manufacturer Ninebot, owned by Segway, to purchase 30,000 scooters a month through the end of this year, according to a source.
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It's not completely clear why Ford feels the need to acquire Spin — let alone any electric scooter company — instead of just forming partnerships with scooter manufacturers to launch its own service.
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For example, Boosted has created the Rev electric scooter with a higher weight capacity and can now carry adults weighing up to 250 pounds — 30 pounds more than typical e-scooters.
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Relync, a company started in the UK but based out of Shenzhen, China, is trying to sell a foldable electric scooter to people who just need a little help getting around.
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It was a progressive step for... The "Rascal" was never a great name for an electric scooter designed to be a slow, excruciatingly safe means of transport for the mobility-challenged.
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There are plenty of people who still have never tried an on-demand electric scooter, and going through the process of renting, unlocking and riding them might be daunting to some.
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Investors are scrambling to put money into Lime and its competitors, but current operating costs outstrip revenues for electric scooter companies according to a February report by research company Ark Invest.
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Grow Mobility's operating areas Grow Mobility's operating areas It's also notable given Lime just expanded into Latin America yesterday with an electric scooter presence in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Mexico and Chile.
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The big plan with all of these modes of transportation — whether that's bike sharing, electric scooter sharing, ride sharing, flight sharing or whatnot — is to become a multi-modal transportation service.
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The company joins LinkedIn's list of top start-ups for the first time and has spent the past year taking its name to the forefront of the expanding electric scooter business.
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On our walk back to the hotel, I was surprised to see Mustafa on an electric scooter taking a shortcut through a clearing well before the end of the school day.
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Skip, an electric scooter rental startup that operates in and around Washington, DC, said it would start disclosing details about the maintenance and repair requirements of its fleet of two-wheelers.
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Electric scooter companies like to boast about their commitment to the environment, frequently reminding riders that every two-wheeled trip they take can help reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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A 16-year-old boy became the first person killed while riding a shared electric scooter in New Jersey when he collided with a tow truck in Elizabeth on Wednesday night.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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Bosch already runs Coup, an electric scooter rental service, in Paris, Berlin and Madrid and the alliance with toom marks a further step into the market for on-demand vehicle rental services.
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During a special two-hour episode, Sofia Vergara stopped by to wish the host a happy birthday — and give her an electric scooter to help ease the transition into her golden years.
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"One in five Taxify rides are less than 3 km, which is the perfect distance to cover with an electric scooter," Taxify CEO and co-founder Markus Villig said in a statement.
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Last year, the ride-hailing company formed a partnership with Lime, which eventually led to the electric scooter startup's two-wheeled vehicles ability to be rented and paid for through Uber's app.
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But the permitting process and the decision that resulted did not sit well with companies like Lime and Lyft, which were not granted permits to operate electric scooter services in San Francisco.
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He also pitches in about $22 a month for gas for his girlfriend's car, which they use for weekend trips or any longer distances that they can't cover on an electric scooter.
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First up, Modern Family star Sofia Vergara stops by to wish the host a happy birthday — and give gives her an electric scooter to help ease the transition into her golden years.
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First, you'll find deals on tech that's suited for an on-the-go lifestyle, including an exclusive discount for Verge readers on a Ninebot Segway electric scooter, wireless headphones, and much more.
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The company, which employs roughly 50 people, just closed on $16.5 million in Series B1 funding expressly to introduce its products and services into the e-bike and electric scooter sharing market.
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This was no more the case than with the EcoReco M13 Air, a collapsable electric scooter with up to 15 miles of range and a top speed of 20 miles per hour.
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This was no more the case than with the EcoReco M5 Air, a collapsable electric scooter with up to 15 miles of range and a top speed of 20 miles per hour.
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With the Flowboard Air Aluminum Electric Scooter from SoFlow, you can scoot around town in style just as you would with a Lime or Bird model, minus the peskiness of other riders.
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Segway-Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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The city's laws require electric scooter operators to not ride on the sidewalk and to wear a helmet, but looking around this city you'll notice that barely anyone is following these rules.
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Ather has engineered a premium-priced, aspirational electric scooter that is one of the few to qualify for government clean-energy subsidies, and it is building a network of fast-charging stations.
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Lime is pausing its electric scooter operations in California and Washington, as well as throughout the countries of Italy, France and Spain to help keep riders safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Target's top items for 2500 include 22017 toys that are exclusive to the retailer, the company said, such as a Shopkins mall, an exclusive Hatchimals egg and a Jetson-branded electric scooter.
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Rather, the office seems to be a response to the recent (unexpected) rapid rise of electric scooter rentals and the delivery robots some companies have tested in the last couple of years.
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Whether you use scooter-sharing services like Lime and Bird, or you (or someone you know) have an eye out for electric scooter deals, now's a pretty good time to buy one.
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Several cities in New Jersey have experimented with adding electric-scooter rentals to their streets under a state law passed in May, with at least two ending their programs after problems emerged.
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"Today, I thought Manhattan was going to have the streets cleaned up, but I see not," said Valentine Williams, who usually operates an electric scooter to deliver food in New York City.
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After that, we dug into two different pieces of scooter news (Boo!), namely that you can get a Boosted-branded electric scooter for $1,600 or the new Bird One scooter for around $1,300.
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After months of scooter-less streets in San Francisco, city transportation officials finally broke their silence Thursday to announce which electric scooter companies would be allowed to rent out the battery-powered vehicles.
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On Friday, Lime said it's rolling out its electric scooter rental service in Mexico City, its first location in Latin America, just hours after rival Bird announced its own arrival in the city.
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Speaking with local publication Hilltop Views last week, an emergency room nurse at the city's St. David's Medical Center said that the institution admits around 50 people per week with electric scooter injuries.
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These are the Mi Band 2, priced at €24.99, the Mi Electric Scooter, costing €349.99, the Mi Box Android set-top box, which is €74.99, and the Mi Action Camera 4K for €134.99.
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But Yamaha definitely seems to believe in the power of three wheels, because it announced an electric scooter concept (called "Tritown") that uses the Leaning Multi-Wheel technology at the show as well.
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A guy named Jean Paul claims back in 2015 he and Ray talked about firing up a business to market electric scooter bikes ... a product Ray has been into for a long time.
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Inspired by Uber and Lyft — and helmed by some of their former executives — a handful of companies are scattering electric scooter across cities first, then waiting for the law to deal with them.
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To date, the only electric scooter businesses that we have seen launched in the U.K. have been pilots in closed campuses, like the Bird scooter service in the Olympic Village started last year.
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Electric scooter startup Bird is said to be nearing a deal to extend its Series C funding with an additional $300 million led by cross-over investor Fidelity, according to an Axios report.
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STOCKHOLM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Electric scooter sharing firm VOI Technology has raised $85 million from new and existing investors to fund its European expansion and increase focus on profitability, it said on Monday.
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With this new scooter model, the battery was custom built for the shared electric scooter service use case and is also completely enclosed, which should help prevent it from getting damaged, Dastoor said.
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While there are a number of electric scooter startups operating shared services, including one founded by former Boosted CEO Sanjay Dastoor, there are not as many operating in the direct-to-consumer space.
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In Santa Monica, scooter startup Bird's hometown, the city planning department has recommended the council award its two pilot program permits to Lyft and Uber over the one-year-old electric scooter upstart.
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She opened her Chase app and saw recent transactions at the Sheraton hotel by the Portland Airport for hundreds of dollars and what looked like a big pizza delivery and electric scooter rentals.
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The company also decided to ignore local regulations when first rolling out its fleet of vehicles in US cities in 2011, a feat copied by electric scooter startups Bird and Lime in 2017.
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SAN FRANCISCO Nov 20 (Reuters) - Electric scooter company Superpedestrian on Wednesday said it had raised $20 million for its diagnostic software that can spot impending hardware failure, a major problem for scooter operators.
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Electric scooter sharing has enjoyed fast growth in some cities in the United States, although there have been complaints over dangerous riding, dumping them in inappropriate places and riding illegally on the sidewalk.
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That is why Uber's deal with Lime — the ride-hail giant is investing in Lime in a new $335 million round that values the electric scooter company at $1.1 billion — is so important.
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In June, the U.S. city of San Francisco ordered electric scooter companies Lime and Bird to clear hundreds of vehicles from the streets and introduced a permit system after widespread complaints of street clutter.
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Superpedestrian, a Boston-based startup best known for its Copenhagen Wheel, a system that turns a regular bike into an electric one, now wants to sell a commercial-grade electric scooter to fleet operators.
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An electric scooter popular with dockless, ride-sharing services can be made to suddenly accelerate or brake mid-ride thanks to a flaw in the device's Bluetooth module, security research firm Zimperium reported Tuesday.
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In a press release, the London Metropolitan Police said a woman in her 30s was involved in a fatal crash between a truck and an electric scooter and was pronounced dead at the scene.
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According to Bloomberg, the ride-hail giant is investing in Lime in a new $335 million round of financing led by Alphabet's venture arm, GV, that values the electric scooter company at $1.1 billion.
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The electric scooter space has been under scrutiny as of late — partly due to the fact that Bird, Spin and Lime deployed their respective scooters without explicit permission in San Francisco back in March.
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Electric scooter startups Bird and Skip have landed permits to operate in Portland under a new pilot program that aims to gauge how the controversial form of micro-transportation will fit in the city.
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In many places, it's against the law to ride an electric scooter on the sidewalk, and neophyte scooter riders, unlike veteran cyclists, aren't trained in the safest ways to share the road with cars.
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The San Francisco Fire Department has confirmed to The Verge that Dropbox evacuated its SF headquarters at 333 Brannan Street yesterday after an electric scooter caught fire on the fifth floor of the building.
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"Young people from all over the world will come to smoke weed in Montreal, and we will soon become a country of potheads," he said as he rode his electric scooter through downtown Montreal.
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Prior to the city's decision last year to grant permits to Lime, Uber's JUMP, Bird's Scoot and Ford's Spin, Skip was one of only two companies operating shared electric scooter services in San Francisco.
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The startup was one of the highest-profile competitors to top electric skateboard company Boosted, and last year announced plans to enter the electric scooter market — a push that seems to have doomed Inboard.
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In June, Washington approached the victim as he was sitting a chair in downtown Los Angeles and threw an electric scooter at him, injuring the victim in his head and arm, the release says.
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And yet your columnist refuses to hold a grudge, because the rise of the electric scooter is part of a broader and welcome phenomenon: the gradual retreat of the car from the European city.
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In addition to running a shared electric scooter business, Bird now sells scooters direct-to-consumers, operates a monthly rental program and enables entrepreneurs to run their own shared scooter businesses through Bird Platform.
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The unpopular side effects include skyrocketing housing prices, fleets of giant commuter buses clogging city streets, and, most recently, an electric-scooter invasion that caused city officials to temporarily yank them off the streets.
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While there are several electric scooter manufacturers in the country including Ather Energy, Hero Electric and Okinawa, there are only two car makers that build and sell electric cars - Mahindra & Mahindra and Tata Motors.
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"An electric scooter is pretty much a moped, just a little slower," Sam Torbati, medical director of the Ruth and Harry Roman Emergency Department at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, told the Los Angeles Times.
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Zagster, which launched in 2007, operates more than 200 bike-shares across 35 states in the U.S. This move to support multi-modal transportation options likely signals the entrance of yet another electric scooter service.
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Previously, companies were testing autonomous robots in various San Francisco streets sans permits, until the city voted to ban street robots from testing without official government permits, akin to the electric-scooter saga of 2018.
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Harley-Davidson earlier this year announced an investment in electric motorcycle company Alta Motors and plans to follow up the LiveWire with a smaller scrambler-style electric, an electric scooter and electric-assist pedal bicycles.
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In a slide deck to be presented at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board of directors meeting tomorrow, the SFMTA reports that there were 250,2175 electric scooter trips between October 5003 and February 2500.
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That's because docks can be a way to provide some order to electric scooter parking, while also providing some assurance to riders that there will be scooters where they expect them to be, Eyler said.
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Electric scooter companies like to tout their green credentials, frequently reminding riders that every two-wheeled trip they take can help reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change — but the truth is much more complicated.
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Julia Steyn, who ran GM's urban car-sharing service, Maven, until early this year, has been named CEO of Bolt Mobility, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter company co-founded by Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt.
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But when these things undoubtedly show up in the F1 paddock where the company's star racing driver Lewis Hamilton already employs an electric scooter, I'm sure Mercedes-Benz will find a way to sell them.
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Indeed, Asia's mega cities are frankly dangerous for even seasoned motorcycle or bike drivers, let alone part-time electric scooter riders, while a number of people in the U.S. have died following collisions with e-scooters.
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Among those Chinese companies are Vivo, a mobile-phone company; Hisense, an electronics manufacturer; Yadea, an electric-scooter company; Mengniu, China's second-largest dairy company; and Dalian Wanda, a conglomerate with interests in property and cinemas.
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The bill, authored by Assembly Member Heath Flora and sponsored by electric scooter startup Bird, seeks to allow top speeds of 20 mph, let people ride them on sidewalks and only require minors to wear helmets.
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For instance, one potentially major obstacle to the wave of scooter startups is the fact that several cities already seem fed up with the craze, with some regulators even moving to ban the electric scooter businesses.
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On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market, a smaller European rival has also raised some money to grow its own business.
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Police identified the scooter rider as Mark Sands, a 21-year-old UT student from Ireland, who died just one day after suffering critical injuries when the electric scooter he was riding collided with a car.
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The life of an electric scooter can be nasty, brutish, and short — so short that building a scooter with a much-improved lifespan has become a necessity for any scooter company that's hoping to stay in business.
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LAS VEGAS — The makers of the Gogoro's smart scooter, a smartphone-connected electric scooter that debuted on the roads of Taipei last year, have unveiled how they plan to choose the next cities to bring the scooter.
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In light of a so-far successful electric scooter pilot program in San Francisco, the city has opened up the application process for service providers to deploy their respective scooters as part of a more permanent program.
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If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals of its battery-powered two-wheelers for a flat rate of $24.99.
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You can probably expect the new electric scooter to end up somewhere on the higher end of the Vespa price scale—think closer to $10,000—even though electric scooters are already cheap and prevalent in most cities.
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An earlier batch of electric scooter sharing startups — offering full-fat, on-road mopeds that most definitely do need a license to ride (and, unless you're crazy, a helmet for your head) — just can't compete with that.
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Photo: Allyson Medeiros (used with permission (GoFundMe)A man who was struck and left unconscious last month by an unknown individual riding the wrong way on an electric scooter is taking legal action for the rider's data.
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SEOUL, March 2 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor will start developing a one-seater electric car and an electric scooter, according to a media report, as the South Korean automaker seeks to expand into the burgeoning "smart mobility" industry.
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Bird, the two-year-old electric scooter sharing company, recently announced the Bird One, a scooter you can buy and own for $1,300 but that also only offers a front motor brake and a rear drum brake.
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That shade is entirely fair, but one could argue both Uber and Lyft already have more experience operating transportation services within cities and would be better equipped to run an electric scooter service than a newer company.
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Sky News and The Guardian said that the crash is believed to be the first fatal crash involving an electric scooter in the UK. It is not known what kind of scooter was involved in the crash.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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Besides on foot and via Velib, the decade-old bike-share scheme now getting an overhaul, there are three other bike-sharing firms, three electric scooter operators and hundreds of people riding single- and double-wheel hoverboards.
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The company is removing "taxi" from its name and rebranding as Bolt, the same name that it has been using for its new electric scooter service, to double down on providing multiple transportation options beyond private cars.
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The idea with Spin's security token offering is to raise money from accredited investors, who will then be entitled to a portion of the revenue from Spin's electric scooter operations, according to a source close to Spin.
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If you can't even shake someone's hand and you're supposed to keep a solid 3-foot social distance as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, jumping on a shared electric scooter can't possibly be a safe activity. Right?
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Electric scooter startup Bird, which raised $275 million in funding six months ago, is laying off about one-third of its staff as it races to slash costs amid the coronavirus outbreak that has stunted its business.
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Ahead of the appeal hearing, TechCrunch caught up with Skip CEO Sanjay Dastoor to learn about the company's game plan and why he thinks it can prevail in a battle that other electric scooter providers have lost.
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Officials say the killer almost certainly received logistical support — including the bike he was riding when he shot Mr. Khangoshvili; the electric scooter that was strategically parked to allow for a quick getaway; and the murder weapon.
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At the motor show, BMW announced that by this fall, BMW will put a total of 10 electric vehicle products in the world with nine of them being electric cars, the last one being an electric scooter.
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When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency selected Skip and Scoot as the only two electric scooter companies permitted to operate in the city, competitor Lime took legal steps to attempt to prevent Skip and Scoot from deploying.
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Image: ScootWeek one of San Francisco's year-long electric scooter pilot program is reportedly already creating problems, both with the way they're being operated and seemingly by the sheer fact that they now (legally) exist on its streets.
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Yamaha, which is developing a global electric two-wheeler platform, plans to bring an electric scooter or motorcycle to India in the next 3 to 5 years, Yasuo Ishihara, managing director of the manufacturer's India unit, told Reuters.
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Back in January, another woman from Wichita Falls was banned from a Walmart store after she drank wine from a Pringles can and then spent the several hours riding around the store's parking lot using an electric scooter.
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Given how new scooters are, there's no consistent etiquette for riding an electric scooter, and so pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists can't necessarily anticipate what a scooter will do in an intersection, which can lead to conflicts (read: collisions).
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It recently launched a ridesharing platform that can be used as a white-label solution by companies that want to launch their own electric scooter-sharing program (Gogoro's scooters are already use by Coup, the European ridesharing startup).
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Melbourne will be next, with preview electric scooter rides offered for locals heading to and from the Melbourne Cup horse race on Tuesday, and a three-month scooter pilot launched at Monash University in Melbourne earlier this week.
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It is also bringing its entry-level Redmi 6A device, priced from 99 pounds ($130), Wang said, and some of the other products in the "Mi" range, including its Xiaomi Band 3 fitness band and an electric scooter.
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Why it matters: Electric scooter services are all the rage, and after acquiring bike-sharing startup Jump in April, Uber wants to deploy them as part of its plans to provide a variety of transportation options to customers.
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But Peixe Urbano, which operates as Peixe outside of Brazil, denied the company had held any discussions with Grow, formed from the merger of Mexican electric scooter firm Grin and its Brazilian peer Yellow, about a potential acquisition.
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Or, if you want to rent the cars for short periods like you would an electric scooter, then Citroën says they'll be available for around €0.26 a minute via partners like Free19.99Move alongside a monthly subscription of €9.90.
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Spin, the electric scooter company owned by Ford, is gearing up to launch its vehicles for the first time outside of the U.S. This spring, the plan is to launch in Cologne, Germany, followed by other German cities.
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But Peixe Urbano, which operates as Peixe outside of Brazil, denied the company had held any discussions with Grow, formed from the merger of Mexican electric scooter firm Grin and its Brazilian peer Yellow, about a potential acquisition.
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Those two "less experienced" electric scooter companies Lime's referring to are Skip, which currently operates via an official permit in Washington, D.C., and Scoot, which has successfully and legally operated shared electric mopeds in the city for several years.
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"We're seeing these injuries daily, and at least once or twice a week we're seeing someone who needs an urgent surgery," Natasha Trentacosta, an orthopedic surgeon in Los Angeles studying electric scooter-related injuries, told the Cedars-Sinai Blog.
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His promise to repeal Obamacare was met with a wave of applause, including from an elderly, obese woman in an electric scooter complete with an oxygen tank who cheered for the death of the ACA in between coughing fits.
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A few weeks ago, Turhan Ammons, a 20-year-old Kiwibot courier and a student at Berkeley City College, was perched atop a self-balancing electric scooter, rifling through shelves of to-go orders at Chipotle on Telegraph Avenue.
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BEIJING/HONG KONG, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Segway-Ninebot Group, a Beijing-based electric scooter maker, on Friday unveiled a scooter that can return itself to charging stations without a driver, a potential boon for the burgeoning scooter-sharing industry.
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While a handful of electric scooter startups are duking it out on the streets (and sidewalks) of San Francisco, seven-year-old motorized scooter company Scoot is expanding to its second city, Barcelona, and adding a new vehicle: bicycles.
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"As such, we are encouraging all those who purchased this product to immediately stop using the Xiaomi Mi Electric Scooter (M365) until they have determined whether their scooter is part of the recall," Xiaomi stated in its safety warning.
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WASHINGTON — From the start, he was a central casting misfire — the dark artist slicing through the capital by electric scooter, a cloak-and-dagger digger better known to former colleagues for scratching his bare belly in plain office view.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man in a wheelchair-type electric scooter lit his jacket on fire outside the White House fence on Friday and was hospitalized with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, the U.S. Secret Service said.
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Two days after pleading not guilty at the start of his high-profile trial, the music star alleged that while trying to download an app to use an electric scooter, his bodyguard was approached by the alleged victim, according to CNN.
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The company, which lets you book an electric scooter via an Uber-like app and drop off the scooter anywhere once you're done, launched in Santa Monica in September 2017 but has already seen more than 500,000 rides on its platform.
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A few months after Y Combinator-backed Grin merged its electric scooter business with Brazil-based Ride, it's now merging with Yellow, the bike-share startup based in Brazil that has also expressed its ambitions to get into electric scooters.
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FOX 11 recently ran a holiday gift segment where they tested out some of the hottest gadgets of the season, and to end the clip, they made anchor Lisa Breckenridge take an electric scooter for a spin around the studio.
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Investors Jeremy Bloom, Dhani Jones, Shawn Johnson East and Shaun Neff are in downtown Miami to experience the latest outdoor products designed for the streets – including a three-wheel electric scooter and a smart gauge that can improve driving performance.
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Read more: Audi created a sleek-looking $2,000 electric scooter to make getting around cities easier — take a look at how it worksIn an aim to achieve "Mobility for All", the vehicles will be servicing different aspects of the games.
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The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) alongside the Public Health and Transportation departments in Austin, Texas, found that there were about 22019 injuries for every 100,000 electric scooter trips over a three-month period last year.
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A study published last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised flags for the transport alternative when it found that there were about 20 injuries for every 100,000 electric scooter trips over a three-month period last year.
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Incident Date: 12/8/2018My 22 year old daughter was using a Lime Electric Scooter in Old Town, Scottsdale AZ. The sidewalk took a sharp turn and the scooter was unable to stop to slow down to take the corner.
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Electric scooter company Bird is beginning to look a lot like Uber, with an on-demand transportation service that is ubiquitous on San Francisco streets, a business model that gets ahead of local regulations, and a competitive streak that ruffles feathers.
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Electric scooter companies like Bird and Lime have adopted a new approach to dealing with regulation, electing to cooperate with cities in the early phases of development rather than wait for the relationship to inevitably become strained, reports the WSJ.
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The contemporary electric scooter boom exists at the intersection of multiple technological trends — the falling price of batteries and GPS trackers, the near-ubiquity of smartphones, and the rising demand for space in central cities — that are collectively transforming our world.
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But with a price that's higher than Boosted's premium Rev scooter, and a top speed that's less than Bird's frustratingly slow rental scooter, Audi might need to do a little more to get its debut electric scooter off the ground.
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Bird, an electric scooter start-up, is raising $300 million in new funding that would value the company at $2 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the financing, who asked not to be identified because the proceedings were confidential.
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The company's aim is to shine a light on the environmental impact of the electric scooter boom and challenge its rivals to build better scooters that last longer than the cheap, Chinese-made models that were deployed in the early days.
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Unicorn, the electric scooter startup from the co-creator of gadget tracker Tile, is shutting down operations after blowing all its cash on Facebook and Google ads but only receiving 350 orders for its glossy white e-scooters, it claims.
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We saw a bunch of companies put out electric scooters and, you know, Uber and Lyft got into the electric scooter game by buying companies and putting electric scooters inside the same app that you use to hail a car.
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Game, Razor PowerCore E100 Electric Scooter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Remote Control Skateboarding Mikey, Fisher Price Imaginext Ultra T-Rex, Hot Wheels AI Racing Playset (coming soon), Nerf N-Strike Elite HyperFire Blaster, Tyco Terra Climber Remote Control Vehicle, and Vtech Go!
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"Lime believes that after selecting two other less experienced electric scooter companies and comparatively weaker applications in a process that was riddled with bias, the SFMTA should revisit the decision and employ a fair selection process," the company wrote in a press release.
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That includes Bird, the Santa Monica-based scooter startup worth north of $2 billion, Lime, another electric scooter unicorn that recently formed a partnership with Uber, Uber's JUMP, Boosted Board co-founder Sanjay Dastoor's new startup Skip, Lyft and so many others.
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That prompted city officials to act quickly, with the SF City Attorney's office sending cease-and-desist letters, a new city law going into in June restricting electric scooter companies from operating without a permit and, eventually, the SFMTA creating a permitting process.
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Electric scooter-sharing company Lime announced today that it's launching a new safety campaign called Respect the Ride, which will see the company invest $3 million to educate riders on safe scooter practices, distribute helmets, and better maintain its bikes and scooters.
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Uber, the premier name in ride-hailing apps, wants to be known as the go-to destination for all on-demand transportation needs, and so its latest efforts have naturally gravitated toward growing its share of the booming electric scooter rental business.
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"Beating the traffic is a big issue in cities like Madrid and a lot of trips are much more efficiently covered with an electric scooter rather than a car with a driver," Bolt co-founder and CEO Markus Villig said in a statement.
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Not long after Y Combinator-backed Grin merged its electric scooter business with Brazil-based Ride, it's completing another merger, this time with Yellow, the bike-share startup based in Brazil that has also expressed its ambitions to get into electric scooters.
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Bird Canada, which is a wholly Canadian-owned company entirely distinct from Bird, will begin offering on-demand electric scooter rental service in Alberta this month, with plans to offer its services across more Canadian communities on a gradual rollout schedule after that.
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The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alongside the Public Health and Transportation departments in Austin, Texas, found that there were about 220006 injuries for every 2202,2628 electric scooter trips over a three-month period last year.
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Electric scooters are back in SF Citing Section 916 of the electric scooter program, which states that after the initial six-month period, the SFMTA may evaluate those with permits and reassess compliance, Doyle says that provides a "natural juncture" in the program.
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Uber and Lyft's entrance into the electric scooter space was expected, given that Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told me in April that he had his eyes on electric scooters, and Lyft had reportedly been in talks with the SFMTA about its permitting process.
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There are ride-hail ventures like Uber, Lyft, and Via, food delivery platforms like Grubhub and Uber Eats, dog-walking services like Rover and Wag, and a shockingly diverse litany of electric scooter companies that have taken over every metropolitan sidewalk in America.
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First there were none and now they are seemingly everywhere: Within a year of launching e-scooter services, already, nearly 4 percent of people in major U.S. cities have used an electric scooter, a much swifter adoption rate than previous forms of transportation.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A 25-year-old man on an electric scooter has died after being hit by a van in Paris in the first deadly collision with a vehicle since they appeared on the streets of the French capital a year ago.
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Episode Description: Investors Jeremy Bloom, Dhani Jones, Shawn Johnson East, and Shaun Neff are in downtown Miami to experience the latest outdoor products designed for the streets – including a three-wheel electric scooter and a smart gauge that can improve driving performance.
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In addition to trying to conquer ride-hailing, Uber acquired the bike-share startup Jump, dove into the electric scooter wars by investing in Lime, and has continued to pour billions into self-driving car research as it spars with Google's Waymo.
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Ford has been collecting mobility startups over the years, like microtransit service Chariot, Ford GoBikes in San Francisco (which are technically operated by Lyft-owned Motivate), a handful of transportation software companies, and, more recently, an electric scooter research project with Purdue University called Jelly.
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The platform is part of Bird's mission to bring its scooters across the world "and empower local entrepreneurs in regions where we weren't planning to launch, to run their own electric scooter-sharing program with Bird's tech and vehicles," Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden told TechCrunch.
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Gogoro, the electric scooter company with a wild idea for transforming urban mobility and energy storage, thinks it's solved this problem: It wants customers to share their batteries, and it's willing to subsidize the cost of a charger if you're willing to play along.
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PARIS, June 11 (Reuters) - A 25-year-old man on an electric scooter has died after being hit by a van in Paris in the first deadly collision with a vehicle since they appeared on the streets of the French capital a year ago.
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Bird and its fellow electric scooter providers have experienced a meteoric rise because of a simple premise: a scooter you rent spontaneously for a short period of time that you don't have to take care of or worry about when you're not riding it.
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The platform is part of Bird's mission to bring its scooters across the world "and empower local entrepreneurs in regions where we weren't planning to launch to run their own electric-scooter sharing program with Bird's tech and vehicles," Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden told TechCrunch.
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Five months ago, the Bay Area-based electric scooter rental company Lime joined forces with the ride-hailing giant Uber, which both invested in the company as part of a $335 million round and said it was going to promote Lime in its mobile app.
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One recent morning, B. H. Barry, the Tony Award-winning fight director, rode an electric scooter down West End Avenue to Lincoln Center, where he was choreographing stage combat for Giacomo Puccini's " La Fanciulla del West ," which opens next week at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Electric scooter companies aren't just allowing their renters to take their own lives into their hands; by introducing the gadgets to unprepared cities (other places you can find them include Memphis, San Francisco, Denver and Austin, among others) they're putting nonriders at risk, too.
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Just last week the electric scooter-sharing company Bird, which was founded in the fall of last year and has already had to pay fines to the city of Santa Monica for leaving scooters around town, raised $100 million in a series B funding.
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Since its debut in September, Southern California-based Bird has become one of several electric scooter companies that have upset city transportation patterns and vexed regulators, while capturing the imagination of tourists and commuters looking for an alternative to cars, bicycles and city buses.
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What's more, this category extends to frontier-tech companies such as GGV investment Niu, maker of an electric scooter popular among urban Chinese millennials who use them not just to navigate the clogged streets of Beijing, but also to get away from the smog and stress.
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One day we were all walking around the streets on two feet like the dumb ape descendants we are; the next, we were tearing down city sidewalks, wind in our hair, waving at the rest of the bipedal plebs from the perch of an electric scooter.
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Yesterday, we learned that 18-month-old, Bay Area-based electric scooter rental company Lime is joining forces with the ride-hailing giant Uber, which is both investing in the company as part of a $335 million round and planning to promote Lime in its mobile app.
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Gore's electric scooter, built by Indian start-up Okinawa, runs for about 100-120 km (60-75 miles) on a single charge which costs the sugarcane farmer less than 10 percent of the 150 rupees ($2.15) he would otherwise have spent on fuel for the same distance.
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We saw last year, they announced it in conjunction with CES, a company is making an electric scooter called Gogoro where instead of recharging it, there would just be little battery stations stationed in the city and when you need to recharge, you just swap batteries.
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The list goes on — these are the many electric scooter options you can rent in various cities throughout the U.S. For each company offering rentals to ride the electric two-wheelers, there's an accompanying app with its own map showing where (just) its scooters are located.
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In Khosrowshahi's one year as CEO, Uber has made a multimillion-dollar acquisition of JUMP bikes, launched UberRENT, announced plans to launch a dockless electric scooter service and launched a new modalities organization created to figure out what this multi-modal future might look like for Uber.
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As part of the program, electric scooter companies would need to provide user education and insurance, share its detailed trip data with the city, have a privacy policy that protects user data, offer a low-income plan and operate in a to-be-approved service area.
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The San Francisco-based startup (which is not to be confused with an electric scooter company of the same name) will use the capital to scale its business and open a New York office next month and its European Union headquarters in the second quarter of this year.
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Lime isn't the only scooter company to have a recent braking scare; earlier in the month, a firmware vulnerability was found in the Xiaomi M365 electric scooter (which Lime does not use, but some rivals do) that could allow a hacker to remotely trigger the brakes on the scooters.
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Built by Segway Robotics, a division of Segway-Ninebot, the Loomo is what happens when you fuse a miniPro self-balancing electric scooter (or as I like to call it a knee-controlled hoverboard) with AI so that it can essentially see and hear you almost like a pet.
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Bird Platform is part of Bird's mission to bring its scooters across the world "and empower local entrepreneurs in regions where we weren't planning to launch, to run their own electric scooter-sharing program with Bird's tech and vehicles," Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden told TechCrunch earlier this month.
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The recall impacts the biggest hoverboard brands on the market, including Swagway (the Swagway X1 model), the Hovertrax from Razor, the Airwalk Self Balancing Electric Scooter, the iMoto, the Hype Roam, the Wheeli, 23Wheelz, Back to the Future, Mobile Tech, Hover Shark, NWS, X Glider and X Rider.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Engine maker Greaves Cotton Ltd, which launched its first heavyweight electric scooter last month, plans to set up at least 100 charging stations for two-wheelers across India in the next three months, as the government pushes for more electric vehicles (EV) to combat rising pollution.
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Initial partners include electric scooter makers EcoReco, which will use Tile's location technology in its Model R EV scooters; smartphone and smartwatch accessories maker Nomad, which will incorporate Tile into its portable battery pack arriving this fall; and Zillion, a smart wallet that includes a built-in powerbank and cable.
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There are a number of electric scooter services already available in other markets in Europe — Paris, where you might find kids giving each other lifts on them, or couples romantically co-riding on single vehicles (très Parisienne!), is apparently one of the largest e-scooter markets in the world now.
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More From PCmag Uber Partners With Lime on Electric Scooter Rentals Microsoft Teases New Surface Device Dish Set-Top Boxes Now Play Nice With Google Assistant eBay Takes on Prime Day With Its Own Summer Sale The lawmakers are asking Alphabet to provide a list of all third-party providers with access to Gmail inboxes.
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As part of the 24-month pilot program, electric scooter companies selected to operate in the city will need to provide user education and insurance, share its detailed trip data with the city, have a privacy policy that protects user data, offer a low-income plan and operate in a to-be-approved service area.
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What was once one of the most popular children's toys around the turn of the millennium is now back as a beefed-up and increasingly popular ride-sharing device, but officials coast to coast are struggling to keep pace as electric scooter companies and their legions of riders are outpacing efforts to regulate them.
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The "Mad Money" host reveals why he remains skeptical about China's commitment to striking a trade deal with the U.S. Later in the show he breaks down why Wayfair's stock is toxic and sits down with Max Smith, the CEO of electric scooter company OjO Electric that's looking to disrupt the food delivery economy.
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Chip's self-defeating personality might feel rote if not for his interactions with the eminently positive Martha Chip's self-defeating personality might feel rote if not for his interactions with the eminently positive Martha, a Costco auto insurance agent (played by comedian Martha Kelly) who meets Chip after he gets into an accident on his electric scooter.
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Anyone who thinks that they love that combination of celery salt and red pepper flakes more than the rest of us is supposed to tag their Old Bay-est photo with #OldBayFanContest and then wait until August 29 to see if they're the lucky winner of an Old Bay Ultimate Fan Trophy and an Old Bay-logo electric scooter.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)On-demand electric scooter startup Bird has backed down from its legal threats against Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow for publishing a piece detailing how a $30 kit from China could be used to rewire the hoards of abandoned Bird scooters sitting around city impound lots, the BBC reported on Monday.
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The Mi 8 Lite that accompanied the 8 Pro when it launched in China in September will also be making the trip, and Xiaomi plans to offer a wide selection of its ecosystem products, such as the Mi Band 154.93, a Mi computer mouse, earphones, headphones, a laptop, a pen, various backpacks and luggage, an electric scooter, and a projector.
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Aside from the well-worn bike-share path, there's also the question of whether Australians will pick up the electric scooter trend, which has had a year to settle into the U.S with Lime, alongside competitors like San Francisco-based scooter-share startups Spin and Scoot, the Uber-owned Jump, Lyft-owned Motivate, and Santa Monica-based main player Bird.
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In 2018, they were found to be involved in at least 1,545 accidents in the US.Read more: The e-scooter boom has caused at least 11 deaths in the US since the beginning of 2018Riding electric scooters is illegal on public roads in the UK, but in influx of electric scooter companies have meant that they are still sometimes used.
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The 160-year-old company, which bought a majority stake in electric scooter maker Ampere Vehicles last year, competes with other makers of environment-friendly two-wheelers including Ather Energy, Hero Electric and Okinawa.. In February, India proposed incentives as part of its efforts to encourage higher sales of electric vehicles, having said it hopes to electrify all new vehicles by 2030.
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What's new: Ford just paid close to $100 million to acquire Spin, an electric scooter-sharing company based in San Francisco with operations in 13 cities and campuses across the U.S. Ford had already dipped its toes into scooters with the recent rollout of its Jelly service on the campus of Purdue University, which also happens to be Spin CEO Derrick Ko's alma mater.
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It also has a partnership with Coup, the European electric-scooter sharing startup that plans to increase its fleet to more than 5,000 scooters on the streets of Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Tübingen this year, and is seeking similar deals with other vehicle-sharing services, as well as local governments that want to reduce traffic and pollution (the GoShare pilot program is being launched in collaboration with Taoyuan City's government).
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At least 40 people have been killed in duck boat accidents since 1999, according to a tally by the AP, many of which have been attributed to safety failures: 2016: A duck boat hit and killed a woman riding an electric scooter in Boston while the driver was pointing out landmarks, prompting lawmakers to pass a bill prohibiting duck boat drivers from serving as both narrator and tour guide.
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How Adam Smith predicted the power of Big Tech Digiceuticals and the potential for healthcare disruption Uber's new finance chief is ready for the spotlight Mr Khosrowshahi, who joined Uber a year ago, has also struck deals with Lime, an electric scooter company, and Masabi, a London-based app that provides mobile ticketing for public transport, with the aim of building what he calls an "urban mobility platform".
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If you go on the one-wheeled subreddit, it just seems like there's a ton of posts on there that are about people nosediving and falling, and it's kind of like a rite of passage, I guess, not to make it sound like it's any more dangerous than a bicycle is because you can crash on a bicycle or an electric scooter or whatever, but there is just an extra step that you have to take.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro plans to enter Japan and offer its battery sharing infrastructure to automakers in the country, a top Gogoro official said, apart from competing in the two-wheeler market dominated by giants including Honda Motor Co. The start-up, which sells scooters in Taiwan and operates a battery distribution network for riders, last week said it had secured investment from Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corporation, opening the door to the country's highly competitive scooter market.
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Bird, the electric scooter start-up, is said to draw an investment frenzy Troubles in San Francisco push some voters to think Republican Ted Dabney, a founder of Atari and a creator of Pong, dies at 81 For victims and emergency responders, the experiences were often aggravated by a lack of knowledge about how smart technology works, how much power the other person had over the devices, how to legally deal with the behavior and how to make it stop.
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Together our rent is $1,250 excluding utilities.)Student Loans: $13 (Thank you scholarships and parents)Cleaning Person: $100 (she comes once a week, this is essential for us because it saves us from lots of fights)Cell Phone: $12.50Gym: $200 (membership to a regular gym + classes)Internet: $9 (for my half)Electricity: ~$50 (for my half)Water: $10 (for my half)Rental Scooter: $35 (I rent an electric scooter for a monthly fee that includes repairs and replacements for stolen scooters)Nail Salon Membership: $20/yearSavings: $2,2.503 (I try to save about 60% of my income per month since I am lucky to have little fixed expenses and I would like to also spend less on discretionary purchases to have more to put into funds) Day One 7:30 a.m.
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