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 🎱 Let’s not leave it to chance

Bremen's Senate are planning to award the next shared scooter licences by lottery - the justification for which is that there will be a significant time saved in the quality check. Scooter operators are against this for a number of reasons:

• It removes any basis for the entrepreneurial motivation to offer a high-quality service

• There’s no reason for the current operators to go the entrepreneurial "extra mile".

• Companies can’t plan long-term, making it difficult from a hiring & retention standpoint.

The current operators are Bolt and Lime, with the new licences set to begin in May 2025, on a 3-year contract. A citizens' assembly is due to vote on the matter on later today, when we will have our answer.

🎈Party’s over for micromobility

In Q3-2024, Micromobility.com Inc (formerly Helbiz) generated $317k in revenue from shared mobility services in Europe vs $918k in Q3-2023 (-66%).

In Q3-2024, Micromobility suspended all shared mobility services in the US, citing high costs, and the company’s strategy to reduce the operating cash burn.

The company also sold 100% of Wheels Lab, Inc. to a third party for $1.

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Alicante (ES) | Minimum age to rent scooters set at 16 years old.

Amsterdam (NL) | Baqme not complying with permit conditions (too few vehicles).

Halmstad (SE) | Every week, around 140 scooters are picked up from pavements by the local government.

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INDUSTRY NEWS 🗞️

Fluctuo CEO spoke on a panel at the Académie du Climat yesterday with European mobility experts.

The scooter Industry wants to stop Bremen’s plans to put scooter licence renewals down to a lottery in 2025.

nextbike Poland records 8.62m trips in 2024, riding a combined 25 million kilometres.