The last straight line. Operators who want to get a license to operate scooters in Paris will send their copy to this call for tenders on March 11. Among the applicants, there is a certain nervousness. “ This represents a huge job. We are working hard on it , ”says Matthieu Faure, marketing director of Dott, a French start-up present in the capital.
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These actors are playing very big: if some of them (B Mobility, Hive…) have already thrown in the towel in Paris, eight (Lime, Bird, Jump, Dott, Tier, VOI…) operate there today 16,000 or 17,000 machines in total. However, at the end of this competition, the town hall of Paris will select only three brands. Each will be able to deploy a fleet of 5,000 scooters from June.
There will therefore be many failures and disappointments. And this market is not anecdotal. It is simply the biggest in the world. " Of the more than 100 million races we have run since our foundation, 16 million
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