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Forest bikes, formerly named HumanForest, has added a fleet of new e-bikes to its app to meet a rise in demand for its service this summer – and to raise awareness for wider environmental issues. Named River, and easily spotted by their bright blue colour, the company wants to use …

Santi Ureta is a man with plenty of experience of start-ups.  Having started his career with Deliveroo in Spain, he then made his move into the transport industry with start-up Orkestro, which specialised in last-mile delivery, where he was product operations manager. Ureta, who is from Barcelona, then moved to …

E-scooters, e-bikes and electric motorcycles have all seen a rise in Google searches over the last five years, according to data released by The Audit Lab. The research, commissioned by motorbike finance company Superbike Loans, looked at Google search trends over the last five years to see how interest had …

Georgia Yexley is one of the most respected voices in the micromobility space. Daniel Blackham caught up with her to hear about her new venture, Loud Mobility  This piece first appeared in the August edition of BikeBiz magazine – get your free subscription here  Georgia Yexley is best known for her …

Tier, the shared micromobility operator, has started the first public pilot of its universal e-scooter sound. The result of 18 months of research and development, the Acoustic Vehicle Alert System (AVAS) has been created to allow pedestrians, especially those who are blind or partially sighted, to judge the distance and …

Pure Electric, the British e-scooter brand, has announced the launch of its latest electric scooter range in Australia and China.  The launch was marked by a large scale consumer event in Shanghai to unveil Pure Electric’s Advance range. Australian distribution partner, Electric Kicks, announced the partnership with a dedicated digital …

Lavoie, the new micromobility brand from McLaren Applied, has released further details on its ‘FlowFold’ folding mechanism, the most defining feature of the Series 1 e-scooter, which is now available for pre-order globally. Taking its inspiration from motorsport automotive suspension systems, the patent pending Flowfold system enables the Series 1 …

Premium e-bike and cargo bike brand Riese & Müller has unveiled plans to use reusable packaging to ship e-bikes and small components in the future. The new, reusable packaging designs have been developed in recent months in cooperation with the German manufacturers circular logistics and rhinopaq and will be produced …