electric scooters

Market Voice Ben Thrower writes about electric vehicles – and their potential impact on the U.S. energy grid.

Since 2018, Revel has expanded its fleets into Brooklyn, Queens and Washington, D.C. and plans to reach 10 cities by 2020.

Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden said that for the past year, positive unit economics has been Bird’s top priority for a sustainable long-term business. This is an ideology that departs from that of many startups and emerging companies whose focus seems to be on top line growth and revenue building.

Lime’s shift away from car-sharing allows the company to transition into Seattle’s first electric-scooter-share pilot.

Auto manufacturers remain a proponent of autonomy, even if what they’re manufacturing are varieties of electric scooters and bikes.

As a medium of shared mobility. e-scooters are finding wider acceptance in Germany, but it is yet to be seen if they can decrease street traffic.

Lime moves ahead with the backing of venture capital and hopes that car-reliant metropolitan areas like San Antonio will embrace a cleaner, more communal way to navigate city life.

Consumer enthusiasm and sky-high valuations disguise a bevy of industry challenges.

France is banning electric scooters from riding on the pavement; U.S. oil rig count has fell since the end of 2018; self-driving vehicle companies are pushing towards favorable government regulations for commercial deployment.

Amazon bowing out of China; U.S. doubles oil exports in 2018; electric scooters bite into dockless bike sharing market.

Wheels, a relatively new entrant to the electric scooter-sharing ecosystem has raised an investment of $37 million, which further reinforces the explosive interest shown by investors towards this segment.

Proposed bill would exempt electric scooters from requiring brake lights and turn signals; oil prices drop 1 percent over U.S.-China trade talks; CES2019 is showcasing the future of transportation.

China has toyed with the concept of bike-sharing but met with disastrous results due to an unsustainable business model and excessive dumping of bikes on the streets. The U.S. bike-sharing startups could take a leaf out of their book and improvise accordingly.