A look at e-scooter sharing startups in Europe, like Bolt, which raised $1.9B, amid some city bans and questions about the vehicles' environmental credentials
On April 2 the people of Paris will vote on whether escooter rental should be banned from the city. Tweets: @amyrlewin and @sadianowshin_ Tweets: Amy Lewin / @amyrlewin : When I first started working at Sifted, I — along with seemingly every VC in Europe — got a tad obsessed with all the e-scooter startups springing up across the continent. Four years on... Have they lived up to their promise? We dive in: https://sifted.eu/... https://twitter.com/... Sadia / @sadianowshin_ : You can't walk far in a sizeable European city without coming across an e-scooter these days 🛴 VCs threw $5bn at the sector when the hype was high, stunned by its planet-friendly promises and profitability potential — but has any of that paid off yet? https://sifted.eu/...