What’s the Biggest Threat to Scooter Sharing in 2019
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What’s the Biggest Threat to Scooter Sharing in 2019?While 2018 was the year when the world learned about e-scooters, 2019 may be the year when the world forgets about them. What changes can be made?The winter came. It came together with snowy sidewalks, cold weather and more news about investors’ chilling interest in #scooter-sharing companies. More precisely, VCs are very cautious about startups’ financials. Vandalism, government regulations, charger fraud — these factors pose a significant threat to the bottom line and the whole phenomenon of electric scooters. But initially, expectations were much more optimistic.Envisioned in sci-fiIf you take a wider perspective, electric scooters are the reincarnation of self-moving walkways envisioned by sci-fi writers 100 years ago: efficient and (...)
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