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The Rise of the Electric Scooter

Coding Horror

In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it's not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much, right? Remember the the Zappy electric scooter from twenty years ago?

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

TechCrunch

Electric bikes sales spiked as public transit ridership evaporated. E-bike demand spiked, shared scooters initially struggled with some rebounding, ridership dwindled in ride-hailing and plummeted in public transit as consumers turned to cars and other alternatives. The upshot? The transformation isn’t over.

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Vianova builds a location data platform for shared mobility companies and cities

TechCrunch

Many cities have changed drastically with the rise of free-floating bikes, electric scooters, moped scooters and cars that you can unlock with your phone. Many cities have changed drastically with the rise of free-floating bikes, electric scooters, moped scooters and cars that you can unlock with your phone.

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Bolt Mobility launching into 48 new markets after snapping up Last Mile’s assets

TechCrunch

Bolt Mobility’s rise and Last Mile’s demise captures the uncertainty that plagued micromobility companies in the past year as the COVID-19 pandemic upended business models that were, in some cases, already on shaky ground. Bolt Mobility and Last Mile were both negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. assets in an auction.

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Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa

TechCrunch

In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. billion ($4.3

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Opportunity knocks: Exhibit at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

TechCrunch

No matter what slice of the mobility market you’ve claimed as your own — AVs, EVs, data mining, AI, dockless scooters, robotics or the batteries that will charge and change the world — you won’t find a better place to showcase your extraordinary tech and talent than TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. And video-on-demand means you won’t miss out.

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Rad Power Bikes raises $150 million as electric bike sales boom

TechCrunch

Electric bike sales boomed in 2020, a phenomenon driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruption it delivered consumers’ daily lives. electric bike startup — is a validation of Rad Power’s business model and its ability to expand beyond the $100 million in sales it generated in 2019. Rowe Price Associates.