The company is targeting 80 stations by the end of the year before expanding into other major cities with its partners Yadea and Dachangjiang Group (DCJ). Gogoro, the Taiwanese e-scooter maker, officially launched its popular battery swapping service in China with 45 stations in Hangzhou. The bikes will join Dott's fleet of e-scooters in the City of Love, along with Lime and Tier. The Russian company is already operating or testing out other mobility platforms in Israel it has a ride-hailing and last-mile delivery service (Yango) and an express grocery delivery service (Yango Deli) on the ground, and is testing out autonomous delivery robots and self-driving cars.ĭott is joining the multi-modal game with its launch of an e-bike-sharing service in Paris. Yandex only recently launched an e-scooter sharing service in its home market, but only has about 5,000 scooters on the ground, so this will significantly increase the company's fleet size. Speaking of expanding footprints, Russian tech giant Yandex is developing more of a presence in Israel with the recent acquisition of shared e-scooter company Wind's Israeli operations, which includes 10,000 Wind scooters. Rad Power Bikes founder Mike Radenbaugh on fueling the e-bike revolution The extra funds will help Bird purchase more vehicles this winter so it can further expand its footprint, giving it time to earn revenue in spring and summer, which it will use to pay Apollo back, according to the company. The shareholder meeting to approve and confirm the deal is happening on November 2. This upsize will go into effect once Bird's SPAC merger with Switchback II Corporation officially closes. In other Bird news, the company also nabbed $150 million, up from $40 million, in a financing credit facility from Apollo Investment Corporation (Disclaimer: Apollo acquired Verizon Media Group, which owned TechCrunch. Superpedestrian recently acquired Navmatic to integrate a similar technology, which relies on hyper-accurate positioning and sensor fusion to determine sidewalk riding, whereas other companies like Spin, Voi and Helbiz are attaching cameras to their scooters for a more computer vision-based approach.
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This development makes Bird the latest of shared operators to announce the addition of what I like to call scooter advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that can detect poor rider behavior and correct it in real time by bringing the rider to a stop. The tech, which is co-developed by wireless semiconductors and high-precision positioning module producer u-blox, will be on all new vehicles coming off the assembly line. The micromobility startup officially launched its sidewalk riding detection technology in Milwaukee and San Diego and has plans to expand it to Madrid by early next year, followed by more cities.
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