Lyft, normally known for their ride-sharing service, has been trying to break into the personal mobility market with electric bicycles and scooters. Now the company has reportedly hired Liam O’Connor to help build their personal electric vehicle portfolio.
Thanks to companies like Bird and Lime, electric scooters have transformed into a popular form of transportation. However, most electric scooters have fairly low speed and power ratings.
One US-based company wants to change that, and has developed an electric scooter that you really must see to believe.
With over 70 million gas scooters and mopeds already on the streets worldwide, these small and nimble vehicles are an important part of the transportation ecosystem.
However convenient they are for riders though, loud and polluting gas scooters are a still a nuisance in many cities. But the scooter landscape is changing quickly as the industry shifts towards electrification. We sat down with the chairman of KYMCO, one of the largest scooter companies in the world, to discuss their plans to move towards electric scooters.
We are just days away from the EICMA motorcycle and scooter show in Milan, and there’s been a steady stream of new electric two-wheeler unveilings.
The newest is an impressive high performance electric scooter produced by the British startup company Zapp.
Electric scooter shares are great, and people are loving them by most accounts. At just $1 to start and $0.15 per minute afterwards, they are an affordable way for many people to test ride their first personal electric vehicle.
However, when people start using them as a regular form of transportation, the cost can quickly add up to the price of buying an equivalent electric scooter. That has led to a surge in sales of consumer electric scooters over the past year. Here’s a rundown of the best and most affordable electric scooters on the market.
Tuesday, November 6th is Election Day in the US, and multiple transportation companies want to help you vote. To make it easier to get to a local polling station, Uber, Lyft and Lime are all offering free or discounted rides to polling centers.
The Zoom Stryder couldn’t have come at a better time. With electric scooter share companies like Bird and Lime expanding around the world, studies show that commuters have been falling in love with tiny, two-wheeled EVs.
The prevalence of scooter sharing companies has introduced the masses to electric scooters and their advantages. Now sales of consumer electric scooters have taken off, and the Zoom Stryder is one of the best electric kick scooters I’ve tried so far.
It’s an exciting time for electric scooters and mopeds. The number of manufacturers continues to grow, and that competition is also keeping prices affordable.
SWAG isn’t the newest electric scooter company, as they’ve already been selling their products in Asia with over 1,000 scooters sold in just the last three months. But they are the newest electric scooter company to begin selling worldwide. And with a price tag of $1,200, it’s hard not to at least take a second look at these cute little EVs.
Despite beginning sales of electric scooters in 2011, Flux Mopeds has done a pretty good job of flying under the radar.
But now with sales in 15 states and rave reviews of their EM1 electric moped, the Wisconsin company is ready to stand up and be seen.
Lime has just released a new model for their electric scooters, the Lime-S Generation 3. It is designed to improve upon the original Lime scooters that have proven popular among commuters in cities across the world.
Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of promise for swappable electric batteries in the light electric vehicle industry. Just yesterday, KYMCO announced a partnership with 22Motors to build electric scooters based on the Ionex swappable battery standard. Now one of KYMCO’s biggest rivals in the battery swapping EV space is firing back with their own announcement.
Gogoro has secured a number of new partnerships using their own swappable EV batteries.
KYMCO, the largest scooter manufacturer in Taiwan, may have developed the single swappable battery standard that we’ve all been waiting for. KYMCO’s electric scooters are powered by the company’s modular and removable Ionex batteries.
KYMCO developed the batteries with the goal of creating a standard battery platform that other companies could design electric vehicles around. Now they’ve declared their first publicly announced partnership that will see their batteries powering electric scooters built by another manufacturer.
The city of San Francisco awarded two operating permits for electric scooter sharing companies last month. Lime, one of the two largest electric scooter sharing companies, was denied.
Now the company is filing an 11th hour court motion to block anyone from operating electric scooters in the city.
These days Lime’s electric scooters are seemingly everywhere. While the little electric vehicles are surely more energy efficient than most other forms of urban transportation, the electricity to charge them has to come from somewhere. And sometimes, the sources aren’t as clean as we’d like.
In the last three years, NIU has produced and sold over 500,00 electric scooters that have driven over 1 billion kilometers. Earlier this year, NIU’s unveiled a new line of electric scooters specifically designed for the European market.
Now the company is expanding sales around the world, taking reservations for pre-orders with a $118 (€100) deposit.
The Piaggio Group has just announced today the beginning of sales of the Vespa Elettrica electric scooter.
The Vespa Elettrica is the first electric version of the iconic Vespa scooter. It marks the company’s initial foray into the EV industry.
Bird, one of the largest electric scooter sharing companies in the United States, introduced their new electric scooter today. The Bird Zero is a custom designed electric scooter that will become the heart of their dockless electric scooter sharing program.
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Electric scooter share programs continue to expand at a rapid pace across the United States and the rest of the world. Uber, known for its ride-hailing service, doesn’t want to miss the boat. Seeking its own piece of the pie, Uber has just rolled out its Jump electric scooter share program in Santa Monica.
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KYMCO just unveiled Ionex Commercial, their new business-to-business (B2B) solution designed to help companies switch to electric scooters. The platform is built to aid businesses and governments by providing a simple and easy electric scooter service. Ionex Commercial includes multiple models of battery-swappable electric scooters as well as turnkey battery charging stations and a host of management and logistic software solutions.
The announcement was made by KYMCO’s chairman Allen Ko during the unveiling at the Salle Wagram event center. The ceremony was part of the Paris Motor Show.
Lime scooters are seemingly everywhere, including in dozens of cities across the United States. Lime has even begun international operations in France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
Now the California-based electric mobility company is adding one new country to its list: Canada.
Despite making a name for itself in the ride hailing industry, Uber has recently declared that it is shifting more of its focus towards light electric vehicles including electric bicycles and scooters. In another step towards that goal, Uber has announced that it plans to install electric bicycle charging stations for its own brand of Jump electric bicycles.
Govecs, the leading European manufacturer of electric scooters, has just announced that it inked its first deal in the UK.
The company says it has signed a letter of intent with a UK company regarding the delivery of 6,000 e-scooters for the London shared-vehicles market.
While electric scooters (Vespa-style, not Razor-style) are not very widespread yet in the US, they are quickly becoming the most common form of transportation in Chinese cities. This is largely due to environmentally sustainable government policies which make gas-powered motorcycles and scooters either illegal or impractically expensive in Chinese cities.
Niu, the self proclaimed “largest lithium-ion battery-powered e-scooter company in China” has now taken one more step towards growing their electric scooter empire by filing for an IPO in the US.
The indoor expo at the 2018 Interbike bicycle trade show in Reno, NV has kicked off. Nearly all of the world’s biggest electric bicycle brands are here showing of their newest e-bike models, parts, accessories and even some surprisingly weirder offerings.
Here’s a breakdown of all the best new offerings in the world of electric bicycles and other light electric vehicles.