The Micromobility Newsletter: Amazon, UK Scooter Trials, World Cup, + More
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What You Need To Know This Week
“I’m somebody who owns three electric bikes — one of them is a cargo bike.”?Gabe Klein?opens up ?on why ebikes are a necessary part of the American EV transformation, and what to expect from his newly created office at the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.
After 30M trips, Britain’s two-year-old electric scooter trial is scheduled to end tomorrow, leaving individual municipalities to decide for themselves whether to continue service until May 2024. So far the results have been resounding, with?most UK cities choosing ?to extend their pilots.
London is among the cities that will extend its scooter trial, although its cycling mayor?expressed doubt ?about the economics:?“What we don’t want is people becoming dependent on a model and then suddenly the venture capital runs out and it’s no longer there.”
Oregon is considering creating a rebate worth up to?$1,700 off the purchase of an ebike .
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U.S. Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg on the?proper role ?of automobiles in urban transportation:?“An ideal future is one where cars are serving people in cities rather than the other way around.”
With the cost of living on the rise, a new?survey ?shows Europeans are increasingly interested in ebikes as an affordable alternative to cars and mass transit.
Shared micromobility usage in Qatar is?up 400% ?during the World Cup.
Why is it almost every other country is able to reduce traffic fatalities, but?not America ?
Clearly the U.S. has a long way to go on road safety, but there are promising signs that ‘Vision Zero’ policies are starting to?have an effect .
Former CEO of VW?says ?we have too many SUVs and too much car ownership:?“To improve life quality in cities, small EVs with batteries only big enough for city rides, can play a major role.”
Remember those 2019 reports that showed the earliest shared scooters barely lasted a month in operations before breaking? A?new lifecycle study ?suggests that modern hardware has improved greatly, with an average lifespan of 4.6 years.
London will?expand its Ultra Low Emission Zone ?in 2023, requiring drivers to pay ￡12.50/day to drive older polluting vehicles.
Amazon continues to?invest in electric cargo bikes? with the opening of three more micromobility-based delivery hubs in London and Manchester.
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No country has purchased more EVs per capita than Norway. But there’s a problem. The kinds of vehicles Norwegians tend to buy are really bulky, such as trucks and SUVs, and create safety and environmental risks. In response, the government is now trying to get people to buy smaller EVs by?taxing vehicles by weight.
Dat Bike?has raised $8M ?to put more electric motorbikes on the road in Vietnam.
How?big of a market ?is Southeast Asia??“Electric two-wheelers could make up as much as 50% of the overall motorbike market in the region by 2030, compared with as low as 20% for cars.”
Tier is saying?goodbye to mopeds ?so it can focus on ebikes and scooters instead.
Looking for an EV that costs less than an Apple Watch? This Indian company is making?electric two-wheelers out of scrap ?and selling them for just ?35,000 ($420).
Ola Electric plans to open 200?Experience Centers ?across India by the end of the year in a massive push to give more people access to the S1 and S1 Pro electric mopeds.
Lyft is?recycling ?its ebike and scooter batteries with Redwood Materials.
Some exciting?new micromobility innovations ?out of Nigeria: a toolkit for converting ICE 3-wheelers to battery power and a refrigerated cargo bike for helping farmers bring crops to market.
Three Wheels United is teaming up with Zyngo, India’s largest EV logistics platform, to?boost electric tuktuks ?for last-mile delivery. (Video : How Three Wheels United is helping Indian couriers finance EVs.)
Browse the best jobs in micromobility—and post your own—on our?Jobs to Be Done ?board.
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5 Billion Riders - Why micro will be the biggest transport story of the next 20 years.
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- The backstory for Total Addressable Markets and why these matter
- What has changed since my early work in this space
- The potential impact of 5 billion riders
- Why this matters for companies raising funds