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A leading electric micromobility company announced a SPAC deal Wednesday with plans to expand to more cities and new segments. The SPAC Deal: Bird announced a deal with Switchback II Corporation (NYSE: SWBK) valuing the company at $2.3 billion. Current Switchback II Corporation shareholders will...

The world's largest on-demand e-scooter company Lime announced that it is shutting down its services across 12 markets and laying off 14% of its workforce in an attempt to turn profitable this year.  In a blog post, Brad Bao, the CEO of Lime, explained that the company was now focused on...

In the context of alternative mobility, the market is witnessing a deluge of mobility-as-a-service startups that provide people a myriad of options for local transit, like e-scooters, car-sharing and e-cab hailing. The overarching idea here is to create a society that slowly inches away from the...

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The German police had a field day marshalling people around at the world's largest beer festival Oktoberfest, mediating in nearly 2,000 altercations at the 16-day event. Held annually in the months of September and October in Munich, Germany, Oktoberfest witnesses 7 million people every year, who...

Bird, a leading micro-mobility company founded in 2017, has just completed a $275 million Series D round of venture capital funding with CDPQ and Sequoia Capital leading the round.  This announcement by Bird CEO and founder Travis VanderZanden occurred on October 3 at TechCrunch Disrupt San...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a popular consumer product does not always make a great investment. The e-scooter craze is a recent example. "Even if scooters become ubiquitous that doesn't mean that any individual scooter company will generate outsize returns," said Dan Hoffer,...

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In the pursuit of shared mobility, electric scooters are making a ubiquitous appearance across urban spaces in Europe and North America, with startups behind these vehicles pushing billion-dollar valuations in record time. People, especially millennials, are increasingly enamored by this low-cost...

E-scooters are pitched to consumers as a breezy alternative to walking, driving or Ubering.  While companies like Lime and Bird market their electric scooters as an efficient and cheap way to get from point A to point B, they're also promoting their sustainability in last-mile transit. It's...

Paris was one of the first cities to welcome the idea of digital platforms providing electric scooters for hire, but the events that transpired after that decision has led the city to rethink its stand on e-scooter mobility. The trouble started with the proliferation of a dozen e-scooter companies...

Good day, The global pushback on the electric scooter craze has reverberated in France as well, with the country set to ban all electric scooters from running on its pavements from September. This move is in an effort to curtail the invasion of scooters that make it hard for pedestrians to walk...

  The electric scooters and dockless e-bikes flooding cities offer exciting options for reducing car usage, but municipalities are struggling to retain authority over the public right-of-way and ensure emerging privatized services are safe and accessible. "Over the past 10 years, the...

As urban spaces keep expanding their boundaries due to a steady population influx, they are faced with increased road congestion as more vehicles take to the streets. Though some states and cities are combating this congestion by enforcing regulatory restrictions on older and/or highly polluting...

In the on-demand mobility segment, electric bike-sharing startups are proliferating. A 2018 research report crunched the numbers and concluded that the electric scooter industry was indeed biting into the taxi-hailing market, especially across crowded urban spaces in the likes of San Francisco and...