They are no longer in the Parisian decor. The 5,000 electric bikes and 450 Jump scooters were removed. "The service will stop in Paris in the coming days as everywhere in the world," says Le Figaro the general manager for France, Switzerland and Austria of Uber who owned the brand.
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In fact, the group listed on Wall Street has already removed the red bicycles in Brussels and Rome. In the capital, there were almost no Jump bikes left on Monday, while there were still 3,000 on June 5. A departure which should not be final. According to our information, we should be able to re-let the red bicycles by the end of June in Paris.
The explanation for this round trip is a story of big money: all over the world, Uber encountered the same problem with Jump that he had bought in April 2018. It was a commercial success but a financial chasm. In Paris, these bikes, present since April 2019, were rented four to five times a day. But the maintenance costs
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