E-Scooters & E-Bikes

Dutch e-bike brand VanMoof has announced the VanMoof V, the brand’s first high-speed e-bike. With integrated speed settings to match country regulations, the VanMoof V will be capable of hitting speeds up to 50 km/h or 31 mp/h. Featuring two-wheel ...

Swedish Electric Motorcycle Maker CAKE Closes $60 Million Fundraising

CAKE, the Swedish manufacturer of lightweight electric performance motorcycles, scooters and mopeds, has announced that its latest round of fundraising closed at $60M. The financing round was anchored by Swedish pension fund AMF, investing alongside a handful of new investors ...

Seat Unveils New eScooter Designed for Britain’s Roads

SEAT has unveiled the eScooter 125, an all-new and all-electric moped for the UK market. This is the first type of electric moped for the Spanish automobile company, and “marks a significant step” in answering the demands of urban mobility, ...

A ‘Futuristic Café Racer’ With Replaceable Batteries – BREKR Co-Founder Niels Willems

BREKR looks to the past as well as the future. The Dutch electric moped maker was launched in 2018 by Jasper Hagedoorn and entrepreneur Niels Willems. It was named after the word ‘brekken’, which means having outrageous fun in the ...

Harley Davidson-Backed Serial 1 Debuts Limited-Edition MOSH/TRIBUTE eBike

Harley Davidson-backed electric bicycle company Serial 1 has unveiled its limited-edition S1 MOSH/TRIBUTE eBike. The first release in Serial 1’s exclusive new S1 Series, the S1 MOSH/TRIBUTE pays homage to the vintage prototype that inspired the creation of the Serial ...

India’s TVS Motor Takes Majority Stake in Swiss E-Bike Brand EGO Movement

India’s TVS Motor Company has announced a partnership with Swiss mobility company EGO Movement as a majority shareholder. EGO Movement is in the rapidly growing sector of e-bicycles. It has an established range of e-mobility products and a growing network ...

Figures Reveal First Fatal e-Scooter Crash and 26% Rise in Cyclist Accidents in UK

Statistics released by the Department for Transport (DfT) revealed that there were 115,584 injuries in Britain last year with 1,460 being fatal. Both numbers decreased from 2019. However, the report also includes accidents on e-scooters and pushbikes for the ...

Opel Rocks-e: Bridging e-Bikes, Scooters, and Cars – Mobility Moments With Marc Fetzer

The Opel Rocks-e concept is quite unlike most other cars on sale, except for the Citroen Ami. Both cars or, rather, quadricycles, are tiny, inexpensive, and can be driven by 15-year-olds in Germany. It’s a bold new vision for ...

E-Scooter Provider Superpedestrian Launches in France – Its Sixth European Market

Micro-mobility group Superpedestrian has launched a fleet of shared e-scooters in Bordeaux, with France becoming its sixth European market. Its proprietary shared e-scooter, LINK, is now serving more than 50 cities across eight countries. Superpedestrian manages its Bordeaux fleet using ...

Volcon Debuts on Nasdaq, Ships First Electric Electric Off-Road Bikes

Volcon, a US-based off-road electric bike and buggy manufacturer, has debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Valued at $16.6 million, Volcon issued some 3 million shares priced at $5.50. However, by the close of trading, shares were changing hands at ...

Schaeffler Unveils a New Chainless Electric Motor for eBikes

German precision manufacturing company Schaeffler has unveiled a new chainless motor designed for electric bikes. The company’s new “bike-by-wire” technology is based around a generator that sets constant resistance on the pedal whilst also absorbing the rider’s pedalling power. This ...

Ebike Company Dance Raises €16.5 million to Help Scale its Business

German ebike subscription company Dance has raised €16.5 million in venture capitalist funding today, as the company’s first-generation ebike and repair service rolls out in Berlin. According to the company, the latest funding will be used to scale the ...

Ford’s Spin Partners with MaaS Provider Moovit in Spain, Germany And The UK

Spin, the micro-mobility subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, and Moovit, a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provide, have announced a partnership in three European countries. This partnership enables Intel-owned Moovit users to find Spin e-scooters in the free Moovit ...

VanMoof Raises $128 Million to Accelerate eBike Expansion

Swish eBike manufacturer VanMoof has raised $128 million in Series C funding, making it the most well-funded eBike company in the world. The Dutch eBike company has now raised more than $180 million across several rounds of funding in ...

TIER Partners With AI Start-up Captur to Encourage Reporting of E-Scooter Misuse in London

TIER, a European e-scooter company, is tackling e-scooter safety issues in London by encouraging riders and pedestrians to report misparking, misuse and abandonment through a new QR code feature. The feature, launched in partnership with UK AI start-up Captur, is ...

Qualcomm Working Together With Spoke to Transform Safety For Cyclists And Scooter Riders

Spoke, a U.S. mobility platform for safety, connectivity and rich rider experiences, has announced plans to bring connected technology to vulnerable road users (VRUs), including cyclists and scooter riders, using Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) solutions from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The Spoke ...

Spin Begins E-Cargo Bike Operations in Essex to Round-up E-Scooters

Spin, Ford’s micromobility subsidiary, has announced new e-cargo bike trials in Essex, northeast of London. The trials in Colchester will use the e-cargo bikes to round-up, replace, and recharge e-scooter batteries. In Chelmsford, meanwhile, Spin is trialling the UK’s ...

European Micro-Mobility Group TIER Secures $60m of Financing from Goldman Sachs

TIER has secured $60m of asset-backed financing from Goldman Sachs. The debt facility is the first of such scale in micro-mobility and will fuel TIER’s e-scooter fleet expansion for 2021. The new financing follows TIER’s recent $250m Series C ...

Ebike Subscription Start-up Dance Adds New Investors Including will.i.am And Chance the Rapper

The German premium ebike subscription company Dance has announced new investors that support the company’s mission of creating more sustainable cities. The group of angel investors span leaders from a diverse set of industries and includes: Chance the Rapper, Jeffrey ...

Spin Partners with Google Maps for Easier e-Scooter Booking

Anyone looking to get around on a Spin e-scooter or e-bike is in for a nice, Google Maps-sized surprise. As part of a new partnership between Spin, Ford’s micromobility unit, and Google, rides will be able to see the ...

BMW Unveils The New Electric CE 04 Scooter With 130 Kilometres Range

BMW has unveiled the CE 04, its new electric scooter. Its the final series production vehicle of the BMW Motorrad Concept Link originally showcased in 2017 and the near-series BMW Motorrad Definition CE 04 unveiled in 2020. The new BMW ...

Ford’s Micro-Mobility Unit Spin Announces New CEO

Spin, Ford Motor Company’s micro-mobility unit, has announced that Derrick Ko, co-founder and CEO of Spin, will transition the role of CEO to Ben Bear, effective June 21st, 2021. Ko, along with co-founders Zaizhuang Cheng and Euwyn Poon, will all ...

Tips, New and Future Safety Technology for ‘Bike to Work or Wherever Day’ in The U.S.

Depending on wherever you live or work, May 21 is National Bike to Work or Wherever Day. Bike to Work Day is traditionally held on the third Friday of May with events all over the U.S. This year the Bay ...

Bird Launches Shared E-Bike And Smart Bikeshare Platform

Micro-mobility group, Bird, has announced the addition of shared e-bikes to its fleet of micro-electric vehicles and the launch of Bird Bike. Bird currently operates e-scooters in more than 250 cities globally. It bring its shared bikes and Smart Bikeshare ...

Infinite Mobility’s ‘Energy-Positive Vehicles’ – The Norwegian Start-up Building Solar-Powered Tuk-Tuks

Infinite Mobility is a Norwegian tech company that designs and manufactures light-weight solar-powered tricycles. Its electric tuk-tuks are powered by solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. Auto Futures has been talking to Lupi Love, Infinite Mobility’s CEO. He previously worked for leading ...

Converting Old Bikes Into Electric Bikes in a Matter of Minutes – Rubbee CEO Gediminas Nemanis

Rubbee turns regular bikes into e-bikes without adding any modifications or excessive wiring to them. It began as a hobby project back in 2011 when Gediminas Nemanis built the first prototype in his garage. “I set out to build a ...

Lime and Moovit Announce Global Micromobility Partnership

Moovit and Lime have announced a global partnership across more than 100 cities in 20 countries that will integrate Lime’s scooters, mopeds, and cycles into the Moovit app. This new partnership will see Lime’s vehicles added to the Moovit app ...

Damon Motors to Electrify Latin America’s Two-Wheel Market Alongside Auteco Mobility

Canada’s Damon Motors has announced a strategic alliance with Auteco Mobility to deliver smart, connected electric motorcycles to the Latin American market. The two companies plan to collaborate for sales and support of Damon-branded motorcycles, including Damon’s flagship HyperSport superbike ...

Bird Reveals New E-Scooter Model – The Bird Three – With Autonomous Emergency Braking

Micro-mobility group Bird has unveiled its newest e-scooter model, the Bird Three, which it’s calling the World’s most eco-conscious scooter. It has a battery capacity of up to 1 kWh, meaning it requires less frequent charging and delivers more ...

Micro-Mobility Group TIER Teams up With Google Maps to Offer Route Planning Options

TIER, a leading European micro-mobility provider. and Google Maps are teaming up to offer a new option when planning routes for the ‘first and last mile’ in 11 major European cities. Riders will be able to locate nearby TIER ...

Superpedestrian Expands Its Shared e-Scooter Service in Europe With Nine New Cities

Superpedestrian, a company born out of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has expanded its shared e-scooter service in Europe, having launched in nine new locations in just three months. It is on track to serve residents in more ...

Lime Deploys 200 of Its Latest Gen4 E-Scooters Across London as Trial Gets Underway

Lime has deployed 200 of its latest Gen4 e-scooters across London, working with Transport for London (TfL) and London Councils to launch the UK’s largest for-hire e-scooter trial. Londoners will now be able to hire Lime e-scooters, alongside Lime’s e-bikes ...

On a Mission to Build The Safest Electric Motorcycle Available – Zaiser Motors CEO Anthony Cross

Zaiser Motors is building an ‘electric motorcycle with a soul’. The U.S start-up was launched by Anthony Cross and his fellow co-founder, Chris Shipman, when they found themselves dissatisfied with what was available on the market. Cross, Zaiser Motors’ CEO, ...

Lime Launches 1,000 eScooters in New York

eScooter and eBike rental company Lime has introduced 1,000 new scooters to the streets of New York. Riders will find the first scooters in the East Bronx as part of the Department of Transportation’s scooter-sharing pilot program. “Lime is honoured ...

TIER Establishes New Tech Hub in Budapest After Acquiring Tech Agency Makery

TIER, the European micro-mobility company, is to acquire the Hungarian tech agency Makery to create a technology hub in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest will be TIER’s largest tech-focused office outside of its headquarters in Berlin and London. Budapest will also be ...

U.S. Micro-Mobility Group Revel to Roll-Out Tesla-Only Ride-Hailing Service in NYC

U.S. micro-mobility group Revel is to launch a new ride-hailing service in NYC featuring an employee-driven fleet of custom Tesla electric cars. It will soon begin operating below 42nd street in Manhattan. Revel is also rolling-out a network of fast-charging ...

Superpedestrian to Rollout New Operating System for E-Scooter Fleet

Superpedestrian has debuted its next core operating system, which will be programmed directly onto every LINK e-scooter. Several significant hardware upgrades are also being deployed. Codenamed “Briggs”, the second version of LINK’s unique operating system slashes geofence reaction time ...

Lime Invests $50 million in New E-Bike Hardware; Expands Into 15 New Cities

Lime has announced a $50 million investment in new e-bike hardware to launch its latest generation e-bike and double the number of cities globally where it provides shared e-bike services. Most of this investment will be focused in Europe ...

Data Sharing & Micro-Mobility Companies Come Together: TIER & The Key To Safer Cities

1915, New York, and the first electric scooter, known as the Autoped, hit the shops. A century before dockless scooters scattered our streets, this was a time when there were scarcely any safety regulations for motorised vehicles on the road. ...

URB-E Electric Human Last-Mile Delivery-as-a-Service (With Only One Hitch)

We all know that last-mile delivery causes traffic and pollution. URB-E has created a mobility solution that hopes to solve this issue. It provides trailers, containers and alternative electric delivery vehicles (e-bikes or e-scooters) that can ride on sidewalks and ...

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