TOBY SHAPSHAK: Forget cars — just scoot along now
This new category of on-demand transport is useful and fun, but only in the right cities
29 August 2019 - 05:00
Until you actually ride a new electric scooter around a city, you can’t really appreciate how useful they are — or what the fuss around them is all about. Nor can you know how much fun it can be to zip around on them.
The electric scooter start-up segment is a high-growth one, and it is getting huge investment and media coverage. The proposition is simple: instead of using a ride-hailing service like Uber, you can turn to this new form of on-demand transport...
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