Tier and Dott, two leading European scooter- and bike-sharing services, are becoming one service called Dott. The two startups have already laid out plans to merge and form a single company back in January 2024. With this merger, the companies didn’t want to build a conglomerate of micromobility services; the operation was all about scale. […]
Lyft restructures its micromobility business and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to US vehicles
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Consolidation continues in micromobility as Cooltra snaps up Cityscoot
Paris’ commercial court has accepted Cooltra’s offer to acquire Cityscoot. These two companies provide shared electric mopeds that you can unlock and ride to go from one place to another. Cityscoot had been placed under court-ordered receivership several months ago. As interest rates hovered around 0% in Europe, micromobility startups thrived. Europe became the perfect […]
Motional loses a backer, another micromobility bankruptcy and a mobility startup unicorn is born
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Transportation tech trends at CES 2024, another micromobility merger and Waymo robotaxis hit the highway
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Hi folks, I’m back from CES 2024 and ready to share what I saw and heard! But first, big changes are coming to this weekly transportation […]