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After a year, Lime boasts 6 million scooter and bike rides

sudshr47 July 23, 2018

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Love it or hate it, it’s been a year since bike-shares flooded the United States. 

Other countries, such as China and Australia, were already inundated with the services, which let users unlock bicycles with a smartphone and leave them anywhere when they’re done. (They’re called “dockless” since they don’t have to be locked to a dock.)  But the U.S. didn’t see them until this year. 

Lime, which used to be called LimeBike, is celebrating one year in business. It offers bikes, motorized scooters, and electric-assist bicycles in 70 cities. So far, people have taken more than 6 million rides on its vehicles in the U.S. and Europe. Read more…

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Behind the scenes with the vans and, yes, tricycles that make bike-shares ride smoothly

sudshr47 July 2, 2018

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It’s all about the fleet behind the fleet.

Bike-share programs have swept into cities across the globe. They let people open an app and ride away on a bike, paying as they go. The problem? Those bikes require a lot of TLC. 

So behind the scenes, companies send teams in trucks, vans, and even tricycles to repair, maintain, and “rebalance” bikes, an industry term for making sure bicycles aren’t all clumped together or placed too far away from potential riders. That’s where software tracking each bike’s location and user behavior comes in. 

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Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up

sudshr47 June 28, 2018

And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively-hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The company announced the long-anticipated round this morning, with Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joining the company’s board of directors. This is the […]

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Are scooter startups really worth billions?

sudshr47 June 23, 2018

It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutter up sidewalks — drawing rapid-fire ire from city regulators apparently far more forgiving of traffic congestion if it’s delivered in the traditional, car-shaped capsule. Even […]

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Lime scooters are live in Paris

sudshr47 June 22, 2018

Lime is the hot new thing in San Francisco, but will it work in other countries? The company just launched its electric scooter service in Paris. This isn’t the first European city as Lime is also operating in Berlin, Bremen, Frankfurt and Zurich. But it’s a significant launch as alternative mobility solutions have all been […]

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Nextdoor descends into chaos over e-scooter drama

sudshr47 June 18, 2018

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Is there any greater joy than petty internet forum arguments that escalate quickly? You’re right, what a silly question — of course there isn’t! 

For months, the battle over dockless e-scooters has been playing out in city council meetings and legal spats across the country. Now, in cities such as San Francisco and Santa Monica, e-scooter companies like Bird and Lime are starting to come to some agreements with local governments — some with better deals than others.

But in the more personal, online neighborhood forum Nextdoor, the fight wages on — and it has gotten intense, personal, and downright dirty. Read more…

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Silicon Valley scooter wars

sudshr47 June 9, 2018

Electric scooters have become the hot new area for startups and “innovation.” For those who haven’t been keeping track, there are three main players in the Silicon Valley scooter wars: Bird, Lime and Spin. Bird first launched in Venice, Calif. before expanding into San Francisco in March. It’s worth pointing out that Bird, for now, is […]

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Uber and Lyft apply for electric scooter permits in SF

sudshr47 June 8, 2018

Uber and Lyft have officially put their respective names into the electric scooter competition. Uber and Lyft are among the eleven companies that applied to operate an electric scooter sharing service within San Francisco city limits. The city, however, will only offer up to five companies permits to operate as part of a one-year test […]

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Scooter startup Lime is reportedly raising $250M led by Uber investor GV

sudshr47 June 5, 2018

It’s scooters all the way down this morning, with Lime also reportedly raising $250 million in a funding this morning after a new Delaware filing this morning indicated that competitor Bird authorized the sale of up to $200 million in shares. GV (formerly Google Ventures) is leading this round, according to the report by Axios, […]

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Scooter startup Bird has authorized sale of $200M in shares in latest funding round

sudshr47 June 5, 2018

Bird, the scooter startup whose scooters you might have seen fallen over on the sidewalk in a major metro area, has authorized a new $200 million round of funding that could value the startup at around $1 billion post-money, according to a certificate of incorporation filed in Delaware. The latest Bird round has been pretty […]

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How bike-share companies protect their fleet against vandalism, abuse

sudshr47 June 3, 2018

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It can be tough out there as a bicycle in a bike-share fleet, endlessly unlocked via an app, pedaled around   and then left behind before the whole process repeats itself.

The companies behind the growing trend of bike-sharing optimize the vehicles for high frequency use — but on top of that, the bikes need even more protection from vandals.

The shared bikes get used a lot more than your average bicycle, so durability is an issue on top of any tampering. Bike-share company Ofo has logged more than 32 million rides globally. Jump bikes, the red e-bike-share Uber recently acquired, have about six trips every day per bicycle in San Francisco. The average bike trip is just over a half mile.  Read more…

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