Gizmodo

APRIL 1, 2022

Once a brand tied to self-balancing scooters that never really delivered a promised transportation revolution, Segway now represents a broader range of personal mobility devices including scooters that will soon be an even more terrifying way to zip through traffic with a new GT line boasting top speeds of over 43 MPH. Read more.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2021

Spin’s Insight Level 2 scooter uses AI and computer vision to monitor where riders are riding and parking. Seattle’s scooter share fleet is growing. LINK, Lime and Wheels started deploying their devices last fall as part of the city’s Scooter Share Program to encourage healthier, greener modes of transportation.

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2023

On March 3, customs officials at the Guangdong-Macao checkpoint became suspicious when a nervous-looking passenger pushed a Yadea KS electric scooter through the "non-declaration channel." Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

AUGUST 20, 2020

The Seattle City Council will vote on a scooter-share pilot program Sept. Last year, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan pledged to launch a scooter-share pilot but the process has become bogged down by bureaucratic hurdles and other municipal priorities. ” The scooters will be capped at 15 MPH. .”

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The electric scooter from Zoomers. With a plan to move faster and with more innovation than traditional e-scooter rental companies, Shared hit the streets in 2019. Now Shared is Zoomers , riding a pivot in Portland that started last May and turned the scooter-sharing startup into a direct-to-consumer and logistics hardware business.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Google is preparing to bring its employees back to the office this week , and as an added bonus, it’ll be offering them free electric scooters to help ease the transition. The Model One, which retails for $990, is a lightweight dual-motor scooter with a top speed of 20mph and a range of 15.5

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Miami City Commission has voted to end its multiyear experiment with shared electric scooters. In a four to five vote, the commission approved a “pocket item” (a last-minute legislative maneuver) to end the Miami scooter pilot. The scooter companies were incensed by the vote. That’s it.”. We’re shutting it down”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Spin, the scooter company owned by Ford, is testing a new scooter that can be controlled by a remote operator. The scooters, Segway’s T60 model, look different than Spin’s regular fleet with the addition of a third wheel in the front. It will also eventually make it possible for an e-scooter to travel several blocks to riders.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Lime scooters in White Center, south of downtown Seattle. It’s been six weeks since Lime’s rentable electric scooters arrived on Seattle’s streets , following a lengthy approval process by the city. But new data from Lime suggests that scooters may not erode bike ridership — and could actually bolster it.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Wheels electric scooter differs from competitors because riders sit rather than stand on the devices. The third option in the City of Seattle’s Scooter Share Program hit the streets on Monday as Wheels started deploying its unique, sit-down electric scooters. Wheels workers will also sanitize scooters at hub locations.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

A Spin scooter on Seattle’s Burke-Gilman Trail, which the company’s technology mistakes for a sidewalk. At least initially, it’s also one of the scooter’s most obnoxious features. This happened during multiple attempts to ride different Spin scooters down the trail this week. ’s mobility division.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

BMW has been warning us for years that it wants to make and sell a radical electric city scooter, and now it’s following through. The CE 04 broke cover as a concept scooter in November 2020 , though that itself was basically just a reimagining of another concept that BMW debuted in 2017.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser seated on a Wheels electric scooter during a test ride in Seattle this week. It was either the worst possible day to test ride an electric scooter, or the best Seattle day. The scooter has Bluetooth connectivity and a rider can play music or map directions, emitted through a speaker in the frame.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

E-scooters have been banned on London’s transport network after several fires. Transport for London announced a ban on all e-scooters on its network, effective December 13th, over safety concerns following recent fires. E-scooters are currently banned on UK roads and sidewalks, but shops can still sell them for use on private land.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 14, 2021

If you’re one of those curmudgeonly types who was reveling in the absence of a fleet of flaming, dockless scooters on New York City streets up until this point, there’s bad news: The scooters are coming, and they’ll be here by summer. Read more.

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The Verge

AUGUST 16, 2021

Google Maps users will be able to find and rent Spin’s electric scooters after the Ford-owned company announced a new global integration on Tuesday. But to pay for the scooter, unlock it, and take their ride, users will be redirected to Spin’s app. Spin is the latest e-scooter company to integrate its products into Google Maps.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

A group of Formula One and Formula E drivers is starting a new racing series that will pit competitors against each other on ultra-fast custom-built electric scooters. Now, he’s doing the same for this new scooter series. ESC_live pic.twitter.com/ePOm7HZret — Inside Electric?? InsideElectric) July 7, 2020.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On November 19, the Miami City Commission voted 4-1 to cancel its Lyft electric scooter pilot program citing safety concerns. At the time, the ride-sharing company had until the end of the business day to remove the scooters from Miami streets or have their property impounded. Now, less than two.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Apple has a message for iPhone users with high-power motorcycles, mopeds, and scooters: Don’t attach your phone to them you value your camera. Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Bird, the electric scooter startup that helped kick off the shared micromobility boom, is doubling down on personal ownership. Over the weekend, the company unveiled its new, foldable electric scooter, the Bird Air, which can be purchased for $599. Bird first made the shift to selling scooters in mid-2019.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The city of Miami, Florida has banned electric scooters. Vendors were given until midnight to deactivate and until 5 pm EST on Friday, November 19, to retrieve their scooters, or the city. The measure, which became effective immediately, passed the Miami City Commission in a near-unanimous 4-1 vote on Thursday.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Anyone who lives in a city where electric scooters are rampant has probably seen how dangerous those devices can be when they move from streets to sidewalks. Sidewalk scooter riders aren’t only way more likely to injure pedestrians and themselves when they go off-road, they also look—let’s be real— incredibly lame … Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Taiwanese e-scooter and battery-swapping tech startup announced Thursday that it will combine with a SPAC called Poema Global Holdings, which is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. It’s a huge step for the scooter company, which has been rapidly expanding this year. Image: Gogoro.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

Unagi scooters featuring a folding stem for easy transport. Scooting around the idea of scooter sharing, Oakland, Calif.-based The model allows scooter riders to have their own electric scooter without actually purchasing one and without relying on docked sharing programs. Can scooters give bike-share a boost?

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The Verge

MARCH 24, 2021

Scooter-sharing giant Lime is updating its app to make renting one of the company’s battery-powered two-wheelers a little easier. Customers can now take advantage of new features like app-less riding, 10-minute reservations, and vehicle configurations to take some of the bite out of scooter-sharing.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Next year, electric scooters are getting in on the action now that the eSkootr Championship has finalized what every racer will be riding. If a vehicle can go fast, you better believe people are going to race it. Boats, planes, motorcycles; there are racing leagues for almost every type of vehicle imaginable. Read more.

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The Verge

JULY 3, 2021

Bird is piloting a mobility scooter rental program in New York City | Bird. Scooter company Bird is partnering with mobility vehicle company Scootaround on a pilot program that will test accessible electric vehicle rentals in New York City this summer, the companies announced.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

The mopeds are being offered as part of a pilot program to test whether Lime’s customers prefer vehicles that are faster, heavier, and arguably riskier to ride than your average kick scooter. The mopeds can be rented via Lime’s smartphone app, just like the company’s e-scooters. Lime isn’t the first scooter company to dabble in mopeds.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 8, 2022

Ford’s e-scooter company Spin has decided to restructure and leave some U.S. cities and European countries where there are apparently just too many scooters, which makes it difficult to make a profit. The move means the company will part ways with a significant number of its employees. Read more.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Micromobility outfit Bird in May 2019 introduced the Bird One, the first scooter from the company that consumers could actually own. It looked like a solid enough product but at $1,299, it was squarely out of range for a subset of buyers.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Lime e-scooters on the streets of White Center, south of Seattle. Two years after it pulled its orange bike-share bicycles out of Seattle, Spin is returning with electric scooters, joining a King County pilot program that has already attracted Lime. Spin scooters cost $1 to unlock and $0.25 The scooters are available from 8 a.m.

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TechSpot

JUNE 23, 2020

The electric-powered scooter relied on a series of tilt and gyroscopic sensors to maintain its balance as riders zipped. Known as the Segway Human Transporter, the two-wheeled self-balancing personal transporter felt as if it had been pulled straight of out of a sci-fi novel when it debuted in late 2001.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Instead of gasoline and diesel, it might one day be possible to just unload a cartridge of gray, goopy paste into the fuel tank of your e-scooter, motorcycle, or even potentially your car. At least, that’s what researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) are… Read more.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Lime unveiled its fourth-generation electric scooter with a swappable battery and enhanced safety features. The company also announced it was “cash flow positive” in the third quarter of 2020 — a sign that the scooter sharing giant is getting closer to becoming profitable for the first time. Image: Lime.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Tier plans to deploy thousands of scooters with built-in helmet compartments. Micromobility rental company Tier is introducing new electric scooters which come with a helmet to protect their riders, the company announced today. Tier says it’s the first e-scooter company to introduce integrated helmets like this. Image: Tier.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Segway announced Tuesday that it is ending production of its signature self-balancing scooter, the Segway Personal Transporter (PT). Moreover, Segway said the iconic and oft-ridiculed scooter only accounted for 1.5 Photo by Taylor Hill / Getty Images. The news was first reported by Fast Company. percent of the company’s revenue.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Boston-based micromobility startup Superpedestrian is launching a shared electric scooter-sharing service called Link, which is built around the super durable and smart e-scooters the company announced in late 2018. The Verge has learned that Link has already deployed e-scooters in Provo, Utah , and is also hiring in Salt Lake City.

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