Movements | October 9th, 2020
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Micromobility
Lime opens up its app to 3rd party micromobilty operators, starting with a partnership with Wheels. Lime’s CEO told Business Insider the company expects to turn a profit by 2021. | Lime
The US Center for Disease Control adopted micromobility related injury codes, which will allow health care professionals to tag and categorize scooter related injuries. | Shamsi Soltani
At the beginning of 2020, 4.3 million German households had at least one eBike. That is up from 1.5 million in 2013. | International eBikes
A deep dive into Bird’s new “Fleet Manager” operations model and program. “Fleet Managers are local businesses (eg LLCs) tasked with leading operations on a portion of our electric scooter fleet in-market. That includes responsibilities such as fleet deployment and rebalancing, sanitization, and general care and maintenance of our Bird vehicles out in the community.” We first surfaced this back in May. | OneZero
The University of Warwick is funding a PhD in Micromobility Transport Modeling. | Warwick
Here is a new website that is tracking the moped sharing industry. | Moped Sharing
Battery Swapping: Tier looks to rollout 400 battery swapping stations in London after a successful trial in Finland: “Over a six-week trial at a shop in Finland, an average of 16 riders a day popped into to swap batteries, spending an average of £2.85 in store at the same time (about the price of a coffee).” | Zag
Micromobility operator Pony partners with Zoov to bring electric bikes to France. | Zoov
A French eBike retailer debuts new emergency medical eBikes custom made for Parisian doctors. | Bike EU
Product Launches & Updates
Remix and Swiftly partner to bring historical bus data to transit agencies. | Swiftly
Zoba announces dynamic pricing product for shared mobility fleets. “By using price signals to encourage users to circulate vehicles, operators enjoy additional revenue, reduced operating costs, and improved fleet performance.” | Zoba
South American micromobility operator Tembici teams up with food delivery app iFood, to offer delivery workers access and training to eBikes. | LABS
Ridepanda launches an ecommerce store for micromobility. | Techcrunch
Apple continues its redesign expansion to the UK and Ireland. | Justin O'beirne
Ridehailing, Carsharing, & Delivery
Lyft partners with GrubHub to give its “Lyft Pink” loyalty members free food delivery. | Lyft
The city of London has finally awarded Uber an operating license after years of legal battles, but bans ridehaling competitor Ola due to safety concerns. | Sky
Waymo is opening up fully driverless rides to the public in Phoenix. | Washington Post
Investment & Deals
Singapore based Neuron Mobility adds $12 million to its scooter expansion in Australia and New Zealand. | Techcrunch
Uber is rumored to be looking at acquiring BMW/Daimler’s FreeNow ridehailing platform, as German automakers continue to divest from mobility services. | Bloomberg
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