Thousands of electric scooters to hit Paris streets

Sweden's VOI Technology plans to put a new fleet of thousands of electric scooters on European streets this summer to fend off competition in an increasingly crowded market......»»

The electric scooter company Lime pulled several thousands devices off California streets due to concerns about rider safety and the threat of fire. The effort coincided with a blaze in a company warehouse involving a faulty battery......»»

Blue Duck Scooters aims to carve out a niche in cities across the South by delivering tens of thousands of electric scooters to the streets after receiving funding from a handful of family offices in Texas......»»

Some have complained of groups of riders swarming the streets in the wee hours of the night......»»

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. read more.....»»

Electric scooters and e-bicycles will not be allowed on the streets of Atlanta at night effective Friday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday. The ban, which will apply from 9 p.m. until 4 a.m., follows three traffic fatalities involving s.....»»

How popular are electric scooters? Popular enough that Lime, one of the three scooter-rental providers operating in Minneapolis, thinks that customers will pay more to ride. The Streets.mn blog reports on the price hike — pretty small at face .....»»

Two men in San Diego have impounded thousands of electric scooters they say have been left littered about the city and endangering pedestrians, sparking a battle with companies that have flooded cities with the two-wheelers......»»

Lengthy contract negotiations mean fewer than half of the 2,000 shared electric scooters permitted for Minneapolis streets in 2019 have rolled out so far, and one of four operators selected to join the program has dropped out. San Francisco-based U.....»»

San Antonio City Council approved several measures on Thursday as part of an overhaul of dockless vehicles on municipal streets. One of the immediate changes is a new limit on the volume of electric scooters and bikes from 16,100 to nearly half that .....»»

Milwaukee has reached an agreement with Bird Rides Inc. over the electric scooters the company released on the city's streets last summer......»»

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Wednesday to mark International Workers' Day (also known as Labor Day), only to clash with French ri.....»»

This story first appeared on MassLive.com. When Scott Mullen worked as general manager of the Hubway bike system, now known as Boston’s Bluebikes, there were little more than four stations in Brookline. “They didn’t really serve everywhere.....»»

Another South by Southwest is in the books. What did we learn? It depends on how closely you paid attention. We learned that Austin can handle tens of thousands of visitors mixed with a deluge of electric scooters — for the most part. We learned that .....»»

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QuartzSan Francisco is sweeping its streets of electric scooters to make the industry legitQuartzThe residents of San Francisco are used to “disruptive” startups i.....»»

Bird app screenshot and Kaylee Fagan/Business Insider Electric scooter startup Bird is riding high these days. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Bird is raising $150 m.....»»

Protesters in San Francisco have blocked streets with electric scooters and let off smoke bombs, in a demonstration aimed at the city’s handling .....»»

The electric scooter craze has gone global.  The electric scooter craze has gone global. Starting Friday, California-based s.....»»

Electric scooters from companies like Bird and Lime have overtaken the streets in several international cities. Now lawmakers are struggling to regulate the newest thing in urban mobility. CNNMoney's Samuel Burke reports......»»