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E-Scooters

April

Segway F3 Pro Commuter Scooter.

We risk death and arrest to review this Segway e-scooter

Risking both death and arrest, someone at the Digital Life Labs broke cover and rode the new F3 Pro commuter scooter to and from work via Sydney’s Metro line.

April 2024

Melbourne hosts Lime scooters, unlike Sydney where it has had to learn to operate bikes.

IPO hopeful Lime avoids share bike graveyard

The company says Sydney and Melbourne are among its most profitable cities as it eyes resurrecting its aborted plans to go public.

February 2023

Icoma’s Tatamel.

Why micro EVs are booming in Australia, even where they’re illegal

Better batteries and processing power underscore the rapid growth in the micromobility sector.

January 2023

The Nimbus costs around $US10,000.

Don’t fancy cycling, how about a tiny car?

Electric minicars use fewer materials to build, can travel further on a charge than their full-size counterparts and are cheaper to buy. What’s not to love?

August 2022

Electric scooter revolution faces a reckoning in Stockholm

The electric scooter revolution that’s swept cities across the world is coming up against authority in Sweden’s capital.

February 2022

Beam’s Australia and New Zealand general manager, Tom Cooper, is embarking on a major growth push in the region.

E-scooter company Beam to add 500 jobs, invest millions in Australia

Singaporean e-scooter company Beam is set to dedicate a third of its latest $US93 million ($129 million) capital raise to growing in Australia.

December 2019

Neuron scooters have a replaceable battery system and can stay on the street 24/7 if needed.

Scooter start-up gets $27m boost for Aussie rollout

Australian tech VC fund Square Peg Capital has backed a Singaporean e-scooter start-up Neuron Mobility, which plans to learn from oBike's failure and expand across Australia.

November 2019

City of Port Phillip mayor Dick Gross wants to see an e-scooter trial.

Electric scooters are coming to a city near you

Trials of for-hire dockless e-scooters are already underway in Brisbane and Adelaide, set to start in Darwin early next year, and local councils in Sydney and Melbourne are keen to follow.

Lauren Barea, a project manager at technology one is among the Brisbanites who have embraced e-scooters.

The scooters that ate Brisbane

Queensland's capital has taken to e-scooters with gusto – but questions about their safety and underlying business model complicate plans to roll them out nationwide.

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