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Lime, one of the largest electric scooter rental companies, pulled part of its fleet off the streets over concerns the lithium ion battery could catch fire.

City governments' tight control of scooter and e-bike rentals may be short lived.

Money is going a lot of different ways in the car industry. Experts say companies are investing in new technology simply because they don't want to be left behind.

Automotive News

US company Bird wants the UK to allow electric scooters on public roads.

Denver Business Journal

Bike- and scooter-share company Lime will begin renting electric scooters in Meridian. It may come soon to Boise, which recently enacted regulations for companies like it, Ofo, Razor and Spin.

The City of Meridian has asked that the renting of electronic scooters in the city be temporarily paused until certain stipulations are met.

Your Valley

Ride hailing doesn't have to mean getting into a car. Now you can go two-wheeling.

Following approval from the city of Santa Monica, Uber is deploying bikes and its first set of scooters via JUMP, the bike-share startup it acquired earlier this year. Although these are Xiaomi Ninebot scooters, Uber says it’s branding them with JUMP for the sake of consistency when it comes …

Uber’s first electric scooters are finally here. The dockless devices arrived earlier this week in Santa Monica, California, a month after the city gave Uber and four other companies the green light to operate up to 250 shared scooters each for the next 18 months.

As commuters embrace two wheels, Uber and Lyft eye the scooter-share market

Austin has quickly become a scooter city. Now it has a new option to glide around town: Uber announced Thursday that it is

Bloomberg Business

Lime was denied a permit, tried to stop city’s pilot program

Uber is jumping on the electric scooter share bandwagon by launching Jump electric scooters in Santa Monica ahead of rolling out in other cities.

The addition of Jump scooters seeks to bolster company’s shift to promote car-free transit

Uber is working on its own scooter to compete with Lime, Bird, Scoot and others, according to Bloomberg. The project is being overseen by Jump, a bike-sharing f...

Uber executives Dennis Cinelli and Yibo Ling have left the tech giant to join electric scooter company Bird.

Uber is hoping to bring its new bike-share program to San Antonio’s streets, city officials said Wednesday.

The Uber of scooters is going to be Uber.

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