FYI, Some scooter companies doing moderately OK, others not so much

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 Personally I do not see this as fatal to OMF at all, but certainly as a discounting factor in their A/Rs. As fate would have it Jascha seems to have the right ones in his tent, more or less, all things considered. Credit to the Lacuna and city team that preceded him too

 

from https://micromobility.substack.com/p/lime-could-be-broke-by-june

3/24/2020

What You Need to Know This Week

Leading off, Lime may
 only have 12 weeks left before it runs out of money, according a source
 within the company. Documents show that, over the course of three days 
in mid-March when many cities were shutting down in response to the 
COVID-19 pandemic, the scooter giantâs revenue and ridership plunged by 
two-thirds. Lime felt the impact acutely in its biggest market, Paris, 
where trips crashed by 98%. The company is rumored to be looking at 
laying off 50 to 70 people, mostly at its San Francisco HQ. | Bloomberg

To stay afloat as ridership collapses, many shared micromobility providers are limiting service.

Lime
 is âwinding down or pausingâ in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, 
Bulgaria, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, 
Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, 
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 
It will continue to operate in a handful of cities in the United Arab 
Emirates, South Korea, and New Zealand.

Bird
 is temporarily shutting down in all of Europe as well as San Francisco,
 San Jose, Sacramento, Portland, Miami, and Coral Gables in the U.S. 

Voi hit pause in all but nine cities: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Berlin, Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Munich.

Jump paused operations in Sacramento, one of its biggest markets.

Wheels suspended service until the end of March.

Tier
 is keeping a reduced fleet active in Germany, Sweden, Norway, and 
Finland, while removing scooters in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, 
Austria, and the UAE.

Spin,
 by contrast, is embracing its role as an âessential serviceâ for people
 who cannot quarantine and do not feel safe taking mass transit. The 
Ford-owned company is stepping up its scooter disinfectant procedure and
 continuing to operate as normal in many places in the U.S.

James Bryce Clark, General Counsel, OASISÂ

Advancing open data, code and standards for the global information society https://www.oasis-open.org/staff 

OASIS at RSAc 2020:Â security standards (Booth 1249) and OCA

OpenMobilityFoundation.org, an OASIS-hosted open source program
EU 2019 Rolling Plan for ICT Standards: https://j.mp/EUstds2019

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