Q1 (January-March)

January

1. Barcelona (ES) awarded dockless bike contracts to Donkey Republic, Ridemovi, Cooltra, Bolt, Lime, Bird & Voi.

2.  Cargoroo, the shared cargo bike service, filed for bankruptcy.
   

3. INDIGO Infra completed the acquisition of Smovengo.
   

4. Forest secured £13m in new funding.
   

   

5. Donkey Republic secures €8.2m in debt funding to fuel further growth.
   

6. Málaga (ES) introduces a ban on shared scooters.

February

7. Voi reported its first profitable year in 2024, with preliminary unaudited results revealing €132.8 million in net revenue.
   

8.  Zaragoza (ES) decided not to renew the scooter contracts of Bird and Bolt and go all in on Bizi Zaragoza.
   

9. Zity by Mobilize started operating under Mobilize Share.
   

10. Bolt, Ryde & Voi won the 3 lucrative licences to operate in Oslo (NO) for the next 2 years. The scheme expanded from 8,000 to 16,000 scooters.

March

11. MILES exits Belgium (1,400 vehicles) to focus on Germany.
    

12. Panek suspended its car sharing activity in Poland.
    

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

14. Spanish Ministry of Transport has announced a €10 million grant to reduce subsidise recurring public bike sharing subscriptions by at least 50% throughout 2025.
    

15. Exactly one year after its departure, felyx returned to its home city of Amsterdam.
    

16. Free2move added 400 cars to its fleet across Berlin, Munich & Frankfurt (DE).
    

17. Fluctuo released its 2024 European Shared Mobility Index Annual Review.
    

    

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Q2 (April-June)

April

18. Prague (CZ) became the latest European capital to ban shared scooters, coming into effect January 2026.

19. Lyft acquired FREENOW in a €175m deal.
    

    

    
    

20. nextbike Polska was acquired by STAR Pedal II GmbH (owner of nextbike), a year after nextbike was sold by TIER.
    

21. VisionEdgeOne acquired Inurba Mobility.
    

22. Contrary to original plans, the Berlin Senate decided to discontinue financial support for a public bike-sharing system once nextbike’s contract ran out (June 2025).

May

23. Poppy Mobility acquired Ush to scale autonomous car sharing in Belgium.

June

24. Dott, Lime & Voi win dockless bike licences in Paris (FR), allowing each of them to deploy 6,000 electric bikes each in October 2025.
    

    

25. All-in-one mobility platform umob raises €3.5m in new funding round.
    

26. During PSG’s Champions League Final win, ridership in Paris (FR) boomed: Dott experienced a 70-100% increase in trips compared to the previous weekend, and Lime hit 100,000 trips in a day for the very first time. Unfortunately, shared mobility vehicles also fell victim to vandalism.

Q3 (July-September)

July

27. Brussels (BE) ordered Lime to leave the city after the expiry of its licence, but another operator offered the American company the opportunity to operate under their still-valid licence whilst their legal challenge was pending.
    

28. Hoppy launched a regional bike system of 485 bikes across 95 stations in Kempen (BE).
    

29. Superpedestrian Europe BV filed for bankruptcy.

30. Bolt, Ridemovi & Voi chosen to operate scooters in Dresden (DE), with Voi & Lime chosen for bikes.
    

31. Mayten acquired shared mobility aggregator Cogo.

August

32. Bolt were banned from operating scooters in Milan (IT) after judges ruled in favour of the city due to “delays and unfulfilled commitments”.

33. VélôToulouse tripled annual ridership one year on from its new system implementation with JCDecaux and Tisséo.
    

34. Voi selected to run bike schemes in both Edinburgh and Glasgow (UK), marking the first time in 4 years the Scottish capital has had bike sharing.
    

35. Bolt entered London (UK) with a bike launch in Kensington & Chelsea, and Forest and Voi were chosen in the borough of Hounslow.

September

36. Estonian scooter operator Tuul sold its hardware and intellectual property to the Latvian company Ride Mobility.
    

37. Vélib’ hits all-time ridership record in Paris (FR), with 230,000 trips in a single, 24-hour period.
    

38. Fluo a new regional bike system across 52 train stations in France, starts rolling out in the Grand Est region.
    

39. Bordeaux (FR) chose Dott & Pony for bikes and scooters, with YEGO & eDog for mopeds.

Q4 (October-December)

October

40. Lime reaches 1 billion lifetime rides, Voi reaches 400 million.
    

41. Stuttgart (DE) decided to replace RegioRad with Lime. From January 2027, the Stuttgart region will be served by 2,000 bikes, 1,000 of which will be in the city of Stuttgart.

November

42. Dott secured €85 million to deploy a new fleet of bikes and scooters across Europe

43. Bolt selected to operate 2,000 scooters and 100 bikes in Liverpool (UK), replacing Voi.
    

44. Florence (IT) announced that they would become the first city in Italy to ban shared scooters. Current operators, Bird, BIT Mobility & Ridemovi would continue to operate until 1st April 2026, when the ban begins.
    

45. Europcar Mobility App launched, combing car rental offers with other forms of mobility (like MILES Mobility’s car sharing services, and bikes and scooters from Dott).

December

46. Budapest (HU) signs a contract with Inurba Mobility to operate the 3rd generation of the Bubi bike-sharing scheme.
    

47. Donkey Republic selected to deploy 2,500 bikes in Düsseldorf (DE) in 5-year contract worth ~€12m, and in the Ruhr Region (DE) with 5,000 bikes.
    

48. Zipcar, the car sharing operator owned by the US car rental group Avis Budget, announced that it will shut down its UK operations by the end of 2025.
    

49. Just days after Zity withdrew from Milan (IT), Renault Mobilize also confirmed the end for Madrid (ES) — the last city still in operation. The company also announced the end for the Mobilize Duo microcar.
    

50. Lyft Urban Solutions and Serco awarded 10-year Santander Cycles contract in London (UK) worth £220 million.