Issue #93 - Brought to you by Michal Naka and Adam Feldman. Join thousands of others who receive this analysis and curation of emerging mobility news in their inbox every week — subscribe now.

If you’re finding this newsletter valuable, consider sharing it with friends 🤜🤛

Micromobility

A Dutch restaurant is testing a ‘bike-through’ concept. “A bicycle path has been created on the floor of the restaurant, which customers can use to cycle through the restaurant.” | Marco Te Brömmelstroet
Smart bikes: Shimano files for a patent to monitor wear and maintenance of bicycle components. “It broadly claims the use of a digital processor to generate information related to deterioration, wear, and failure of various bicycle components”. | Bicycle Retailer
Lime’s CFO has stepped down, days after the Uber-Lime financing deal. | Ted Tobison
Ebikes have infiltrated Hollywood: Will Smith, Justin Bieber, Jamie Fox, and Madonna have been spotted on the new Super73 ebikes. | People
Meituan, Hellobike, and Didi fight for ebike market share in China. “Hellobike is also trying to maintain its lead in the e-bike sharing landscape. With a self-proclaimed market share of 70%, Hellobike has deployed e-bikes in more than 320 cities as of February 2020.” | Pandaily
Bird is now selling scooters at Best Buy, including the Bird One with a $300 dollar discount. | Best Buy
One of the best eBike commercials we have ever seen: Learn to Ride Again. | Specialized
New Study: Cycling to work can cut heart disease and cancer risk by a quarter. | EveningStandard
GoX and Tortoise are now live with the first teleoperated scooter pilot. | The Verge

Product Launches & Updates

Ridehailing, Carsharing, & Delivery

Amazon launches a food delivery service in India. | Economic Times
The original food delivery network: In Mumbai, a network of couriers have been delivering home-cooked lunches for 125 years. The 5,000 person cooperative delivers over 200,000 meals per day. “The organisation runs its low-cost service at a very high level of performance… dabbawalas make fewer than 3.4 mistakes per million transactions. With deliveries to and from roughly 200,000 customers each day that translates to little more than 400 delayed or missing dabbas in a year.” | BBC
SoftBank backed Reef Technology partnered with DHL to pilot cargo eBikes in Miami. | BizJournal
Video overview of Microautonomy delivery startup Refraction AI. | Mashable
Carsharing companies offer a less germ-infested route forward. | Bloomberg

Investment & Deals

Maniv Mobility is hiring an investment profession in San Francisco. | Prescott Watson
French Ebike startup Angell partnered with SEB for manufacturing and investment in France as pre-orders skyrocketed during lockdown. | Techcrunch

Cities & Policy

Following similar moves in other major cities, Tel Aviv converts 11 city center streets to pedestrian-only zones. | JPost
Amsterdam is issuing a permit for up to 700 shared electric mopeds. | Electric Felix
Interview with Lime’s Chief Policy Officer. | SmartCitiesDive
Three ex-Bird employees launched a new mobility strategy firm to accelerate the transition to human-scale, zero-emission urban transport. | Electric Avenue

We would love to hear your thoughts. Give feedback.

Movements

Movements | May 22nd, 2020