Micromobility provider Lime is planning on invest £20m in London over the next year after hitting 5 million rides in the past two year. Raising the bar on micromobility and likely taking a chunk out of the cab market in the dense city of London. Lime Micromo…
On January 12, CEO of Escooter firm Travis VanderZanden sat down with Horace Dediu to kick off Micromobility World 2022 online. Here are some of the key takeaways from the keynote session. Micromobility Hasn’t Had its iPhone Moment but it will come Durable…
One of the issues for micromobility in the urban environment is the lack of adequate and intelligent parking for these new personal transporters. Inclduding electric scooters, Ebikes and cargo bikes. The Background: The emergence of micromobility as an indust…
How battery swapping tech will go some way to improving rural mobility in the UK. The back ground; There is quite strong political capital to try to improve the lives of rural Britain. Who consituents are often poorly served with council services, especially …
While we endevor to open up the commerical relationship of councils and often well funded Micromobility firms. We did a Freedom of infomation request for Buckinghamhshire council around their contract and provison of Escooters for the Government mandated trai…
As with the early dot com booms. Micromobililty firms including Lime and Bird are seriously struggling to make a profit after some massive fund raising efforts. Reporting in the FT this week. Bird loosing $37m on a turn over of $65m in the last quarter. Pure …
Our prediction has been that car companies of today will need to become micromobility firms to survive is slowly becoming true. Mobility as a service is mostly done through micromobility. With larger cars providing a smaller part of the mix. This month, Seat…
A New Year present for micromobility supports here in the UK. France in their wisdom are beginning to treat car owner as a bit like smoking. With car usage affects the general public with negative factors. So they should promote alternatives. Ostensibly they …
We aim to do series of articles on the impact of the upcoming UK trade deals with larger countries. Countries like India with big manufacturering supply side capacity and the affect these trade deals will have on the UK micromobility market. The India UK free…
If 2021 was the year for rendering the scene for micromobility in the UK. 2022 is surely going to be the break out year. With finally the realisation from Government and legislators that micromobility solutions solves amble real world problems. The Pandemic d…
