Thursday morning, Parisians will discover new
free-floating
electric bikes
in the streets.
Pony will deploy 500 dark blue and light blue devices.
The French start-up is not the first to bet on this niche in the capital.
Vélib 'offers 6,500 electric bicycles with terminal.
And, for a little less than two years, we can come across 2000 red electric bicycles as you stroll through Paris.
Initially, it was Uber who operated these bikes through the company Jump.
In May 2020, Lime bought this asset from the King of the VTC and relaunched it in July under its own brand.
With the return of sunny days, Lime will increase the size of its fleet and increase to 5,000 bicycles by the end of March-beginning of April.
Booming with the pandemic, the bicycle market is accelerating its transformation
Between the French little Thumb and the American giant who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, the battle seems unbalanced.
But Pony, who already operates shared scooters or bikes
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