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Q1 (January-March)

January

1. Dott & TIER announced their merger, with a fresh cash injection of €60m, making them the largest shared mobility operator in Europe.

   

2.  Vélib’ increased their fleet by 3,000 in Paris (FR) ahead of The Games.
   

3. UK scooter trials extended for 4th time, until May 2026.
   

4. GreenMobility announced closure of company activity in the Netherlands & Finland.
   

5. Lime and pony launched in Nice (FR) with 1,000 bikes each.
   

6. City Bike reached a 28m SEK (€2.48m) settlement with the city of Stockholm to resolve the dispute over the city’s bike-sharing contract.

February

7. Long-standing operator felyx replaced by GO Sharing in controversial moped tender in Amsterdam (NL).
   

8.  Lime & Voi challenged Brussels’s (BE) tender decision and won.

   The basis for the ruling was that the decision (finding 2 operators from 15 applications) was made too quickly, and lacked transparency.
   

9. Zoba was acquired by Marti.
   

10. Cooltra acquired Cityscoot for €400,000.

    

March

11. Donkey Republic launched in Hanover (DE) with 1,000 bikes.
    

12. SEAT Mo exited from Barcelona (ES), shutting down all moped sharing operations.
    

13. Just weeks after the acquisition of Cityscoot, Cooltra announced that they would be joining forces with felyx.
    

14. Fluctuo released the 2023 European Index Annual Review. 
    

15. MILES Mobility expanded in Berlin, Hamburg & Munich (DE).
    

16. Dott exited London (UK), citing poor market regulation for scooters.

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Q2 (April-June)

April

17. After filing for bankruptcy protection in December 2023, Bird restructured under the newly-established Third Lane Mobility Inc.

18. Bolt launched 5,000 cars across Poland.
    

19. umob acquired MaaS Global’s software and patents, including Whim.
    

20. nextbike sold to private equity firm.
    

21. Confusion in Milan (IT) as some scooter operators asked to stop services that don’t conform to tender regulations.

May

22. Bolt secured €220m in credit from JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and other global banks. This came after fundraisings of €628m in 2022 and €126m in 2023.
    

23. Zity exited from Lyon (FR), their last city in France, with their 125 cars moving to Madrid (ES) and Milan (IT).
    

24. Ridemovi launched bikes and/or scooters in 7 cities.
     

25. Voi reported 306,000 rides in one week in Stockholm (SE), coinciding with Taylor Swift’s concerts in the city.
    

    

    
    

26. Micro-Mobility for Europe found that injury rates for shared mobility dropped for the third year in a row.

June

27. Ireland lifted the ban on electric scooters.

Q3 (July-September)

July

28. Santander Cycles announced an expansion of 900 new electric bikes in London (UK), taking the electric fleet to 2,000.
    

29. Lime committed €6m to operations in Paris (FR) during the Olympics.
    

30. Fluctuo investigated the effect of shared mobility in Germany during Euro 2024.

    

31. Getaround received $20m in funding.
    

32. Mayten acquired shared mobility aggregator Cogo.

August

33. Over the 16-day Olympic period in Paris (FR), 3,465,000 bike trips were recorded from Vélib’, Lime & Dott, an average of 204,000 trips per day. With an overall fleet size of roughly 50,000 bikes across all operators, a TVD of 4.1 was achieved.

34. Bolt launched scooters in Tbilisi (GE), Reykjavík (IS) & Wexford (IE).
    

35. GO Sharing exited 11 cities in the Netherlands (5,000 mopeds).
    

36. Donkey Republic posted €8m in revenue for H1 2024, with 3.5m trips, a 25% increase from last year.
    

37. Beryl developed solar charging stations, with plans to launch in Cornwall (UK) in March 2025.

    

September

38. Ryde announced an EBITDA increase of 400%.
    

39. Madrid (ES) decided to ban shared scooters from the capital, wanting 6,000 Dott, Lime & TIER scooters removed in October.
    

40. Wunder Mobility agreed to acquire goUrban.
    

41. pony raises a Series B of €23m.

Q4 (October-December)

October

42. TIER became Dott (both brands to continue under the Dott name).
    

43. EMT Madrid, the operator of BiciMAD, announced an expansion of 235 bikes across 19 stations, serving new neighbourhoods, and taking the total number of bikes to 7,735 - effectively shutting the door on any private shared scooter or bike services forever.
    

44. AMB granted 5 companies with licences to operate mopeds in Barcelona (ES). 9,950 vehicles are to be split between Acciona, Cooltra, GO Sharing, Yego & new operator Hori.

45. INDIGO signed an agreement to acquire all of Smovengo's shares, as well as the acquisition of Smovengo's supply business (previously a part of Fifteen (formerly Smoove).

November

46. Voi introduced a new activity score to encourage better riding behaviour.
    

47. The Berlin Senate revealed that there was no budget to renew the public bike share scheme, currently operated by nextbike, which was due to expire in December 2024.
    

48. Oslo decided to double the size of its shared scooter scheme from 8,000 vehicles to 16,000. Voi, Ryde and Bolt will operate from 1st April 2025.

December

49. Véligo, the long-term rental scheme serving the Paris (FR) region, will be run by Cyclonova (La Poste and Transdev) from 2026.

50. TfL announce £1m enforcement plan to improve dockless bike parking in London (UK).