Electric scooters: Love or hate them? Here's what you need to know
Scooters used to be toys only for children. Their motorized descendants, however, are now popular among adults.
Aug 14, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Fast, not so furious? Europe wrestles with electric scooters
Ban them outright. Issue speeding tickets. Make users take a driving test. From Paris to Berlin, European cities are searching for solutions to the two-wheeled phenomenon that's fast transforming cityscapes worldwide: Electric ...
Aug 13, 2019
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Business
US electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
US electric scooter rental company Bird announced Wednesday that it filed for bankruptcy protection as the once-hot startup reorganizes itself.
Dec 20, 2023
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Business
Rented electric scooters vanish from Paris streets
Parisians woke up on Friday to a world without free-floating rented electric scooters, loathed as a pedestrian-bothering nuisance by some but mourned by others.
Sep 1, 2023
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Automotive
Paris bids adieu to love-or-hate electric scooters
Paris will on Friday become the first European capital to ban floating electric scooters from its streets, leaving fans desolate but relieving those who loathed their "nuisance" factor.
Aug 28, 2023
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Automotive
Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters (Update)
Paris voted overwhelmingly Sunday to banish for-hire electric scooters from the streets of the French capital, delivering a blow to operators and a victory for road safety campaigners.
Apr 2, 2023
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Automotive
Electric motorcycles flood Havana amid diesel shortages
The young people come and go on their electric motorcycles at this highway outside Cuba's capital where they perform stunts and talk about their two-wheelers, which would be largely silent if it weren't for the music blasting ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Paris e-scooters forced to slow down in busy areas
Rented electric scooters are being forced to slow down to just above walking speed in many areas of Paris under new rules coming into force on Monday, scooter rental operators said.
Nov 15, 2021
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Engineering
Scientists design 'smart' asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters
Scientists from the University of Granada have used magnetic materials in "smart" asphalts that modify their properties in the presence of external magnetic fields. This work—part of the wider research field of "smart cities"—would ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Atlanta bans electric scooters at night, after deadly wrecks
Atlanta is banning electric scooters in the nighttime hours during what's been a deadly summer for riders.
Aug 8, 2019
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