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Micromobility
Lime’s CEO Wayne Ting announced that the company is “operating cashflow positive and free cash flow positive” in the third quarter and targets full-year profitability excluding certain costs in 2021. Wayne also announced that the company will be expanding eBike deployments and introducing a ‘3rd mode’ early next year. | Techcrunch
Lime also announced its new Gen4 scooter which is being deployed in Paris and other European cities. The Gen4 is actually Uber/JUMP developed hardware with some slight modifications like the IoT. Lime retained a few JUMP employees and had also retained some Boosted engineers after their asset and IP acquisition earlier this year. | Lime
A look into Bird’s Fleet Manager program and operations. “Bird told Smart Cities Dive that its fleet manager program is not a franchising model "as some have inaccurately portrayed it to be," because the managers do not own or personally finance the vehicles.” | Smart City Dive
Bird discussed going public via a SPAC. | Bloomberg
What happens when Harry Potter meets micromobility. | Indian Times
Uber patent for ‘walkway detection for autonomous light electric vehicle’. h/t Reilly Brennan | Patent
Product Launches & Updates
Ikea is launching eBike deliveries in Europe. | INGKA
Tier is launching it’s battery charging network in Europe. Businesses can apply to become a “Tier Swapspot”. The Tier PowerBox is 100% free and the company will pay for the electricity it uses. | Tier
SAE is launching a micromobility battery standard committee. Here’s a nice write up about the goals of the committee with Swiftmile’s CTO. | Swiftmile
Harley Davidson’s eBike company makes its first models available for sale. | Serial1
Google Maps rolls out real-time transit crowding alongside a bunch of other new features to help people navigate COVID. | The Verge
OpenStreetMap has become a wildly successful mapping data coop for Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and many others. | Joe Morrison
Ridehailing, Carsharing, & Delivery
During its earnings call, Lyft announced it is looking to launch a logistics only food delivery service. The company also pulled in $25 million in revenue from Bikes & Scooters in Q3. | Eater
Investment & Deals
Strava raised $110 million as it added 2 million users per month in 2020. Good signal for the growth in the bike market. | Techcrunch
Cities & Policy
Attention GBFS producers & consumers: MobilityData is conducting a GBFS industry survey. | Share Your Thoughts
Data from Seattle shows that scooters are 2-3x more popular than eBikes. Lime currently maintains a fleet of 2000 ebikes and 500 scooters in the city. | Jonathan Hopkins
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