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UK Fuel Shortage – An Opportunity for Micromobility?
With the current UK HGV driver shortage could this be an opportunity for micromobility? At the start of the pandemic, it was estimated that there were about 200,000 privately owned devices in the UK. Sales boomed during the pandemic with Halfords and others reporting...
An Update on ESDF
For those of you who were kind enough to donate to the e-scooter defense fund we have received an update on the current situation and plans for the future. Rideables.org is fully supportive of work to try to sort out the current rather crazy legal situation and in...
Rideables.org at Fully Charged Live
Rideables.org co-founder Afeez Kay speaks at this years Fully Charged Live show at Farnborough. Topics discussed include micromobility- not just e-scooters, the UK approach to legalisation and why the current delays!! https://youtu.be/bWacqJhv-h8
How Can This Be Right?
Police across London have seized over 500 electric scooters in just one week in June as part of a crackdown on the use of non rental e-scooters. E-scooter use on roads and pavements is not permitted in the UK, unless you rent the device as one of the e-scooter trials...
Micromobility Devices Could Replace Millions of Car Journeys / Year in the UK
In a recent blog post, we highlighted some of the initial statistics and data which have been produced by the e-scooter trials running in various parts of the UK. These were given by Baroness Vere of Norbiton - Parliamentary Undersecretary (DfT) during a recent House...
So how safe are electric scooters …
E-scooter trials have now been running in a number of areas throughout the UK allowing the government to collect data on the number and length of journies and the numbers of accidents and injuries which have occurred in trial areas. Here are some statistics from the...
E-scooters – why the delay with private ownership use?
Rideables.org is not alone in being mystified at the way in which the UK govt is going about the legalisation process for PLEV (Personal Light Electric Vehicles). At present the UK government have authorised a number of trials for rental escooters in various parts of...
Comparing the safety of electric scooters with bicycles
Which is safer electric scooter or a bicycle
UK e-scooter retailers see demand surge amid calls for changes to legislation
The days of cleaner air during lockdown might be behind us as people get back into their cars and traffic densities return to near pre lockdown levels but sales of e-scooters are surging as people realise the benefits they can bring. E-scooter retailer Halfords has...