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🇧🇪 Lessons from Belgium: Fewer vehicles, more rides

Shared mobility in Belgium has hit a new high, with more than 33 million trips made using shared bikes and scooters in 2025, according to the annual Way To Go report. The number of active users climbed to 2.5 million — yet the most striking finding is not the growth in scale, but the leap in efficiency.

🛴 Shared scooter fleets shrank by 35% nationally as cities tightened regulations and operators rationalised their offer. Yet trips rose by 21% and scooter TVD nearly doubled, from 1.7 to 3.3. Brussels tells the story most sharply: after reducing its scooter operators from 9 to 2 and cutting its fleet by 44%, the capital still recorded 9.5 million scooter trips — 59% of the entire Belgian total.

🚲 Shared bicycles posted their own strong numbers, with 28,158 vehicles across the country generating almost 16 million trips. For the first time, more than half of the shared bicycle fleet is electric.

🚗 On the car sharing front, Belgium has 6.5 shared cars per 10,000 inhabitants, ahead of Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy. Round-trip car sharing trips have more than doubled since 2021, and nearly a third of those vehicles are now fully electric.

The data points to a market maturing fast: fewer vehicles, more users, and more rides per vehicle — the hallmarks of an ecosystem finding its stride.

⚡️ZEUS acquires Superpedestrian Europe in consolidation push

ZEUS Mobility has acquired Superpedestrian Europe, in a move that accelerates the ongoing consolidation of the shared mobility market. The deal brings together ZEUS's profitable operating model — the company has surpassed €5 million in annual revenue and reached positive EBITDA — with Superpedestrian's AI-driven fleet management and safety technology, developed over 5 years of operations.

ZEUS, founded in Ireland in 2020, currently operates across more than 40 European locations. Following the acquisition, the company plans to deploy up to 20,000 vehicles across 30 locations within the next 12 months.

It's financially-disciplined approach has seen them stick in the game, in stark contrast to volume-driven expansion that has killed off many operators over the last 4 years.

What exactly has ZEUS acquired. Will the Superpedestrian brand continue in any capacity? Which city licenses transfer with the deal, and in which markets?Was the acquisition mainly to acquire software, or does the deal include vehicle fleets and parts?

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