Voi is partnering with Lithium Battery Recycling Solutions to safely dispose of and recycle end-of-life batteries from its electric scooters and bikes.
is to upgrade Spin’s fleet with Tier’s vehicles, which feature swappable batteries.
Tier has said one of its main goals for the U.S. This marks one of the company’s first replacement of Spin vehicles after Tier acquired the company from Ford, and it won’t be the last. Tier has started bringing the newest version of its scooter to Essex in the U.K., replacing the existing Spin fleet. Superpedestrian and Helbiz are partnering with Populus to gather and analyze trip, crash and infrastructure data to give cities better planning tools to make micromobility travel safer. Previously, the e-bike was priced at $4,799 but has now dropped $800 to $3,999. Gocycle, a premium e-bike maker, is redesigning the company’s retail model, which will effectively lower the price on its fourth-gen lineup, the G4. Streaming for the inaugural season of this new sport will happen in 9:16 format, which means the racing action will fill the entirety of a vertical screen. The eSkootr Championship and NEP, a live events broadcaster, decided to broadcast the races in a way that suits this mobile-first generation. You also can send a direct message to Micromobbin’Īudi is working with Spoke, a mobility platform for safety and connectivity, to reduce roadway accidents and fatalities involving cars and bikes by using cellular vehicle-to-everything tech, connecting cars and bicycles. “There will be a lot of winners and losers, and I believe, consolidation.”Īs always, you can email me at to share thoughts, criticisms, opinions or tips. “Their business will change a lot,” Farley said. Instead, the vehicles will ship directly to the customer, with remote pickup and delivery. In other words, the dealerships are not going away.īut you better believe their business will change.įarley said he expects massive consolidation among dealers, suppliers and automakers as the industry begins building more EVs. In the future, dealers won’t hold any inventory, he added.
He said it will be like Target’s strategy of leveraging its physical stores to compete with Amazon.
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.īefore we get in too deep, I wanted to point out some interesting comments made by Ford CEO Jim Farley last week at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference.įarley indicated that Ford would be restructuring its sales process, essentially building out an e-commerce platform and tacking it on to existing dealerships. Sign up here - just click The Station - to receive it every weekend in your inbox. The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.