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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by wufufufu on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:12PM (#22004398)
> Electric scooters are expensive, repair and charging is expensive

Citation needed, at least to convince me. I think they could significantly bring down the cost at scale (production/maintenance wise at least).

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by bransonf on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:19PM (#22004485)
Here are some estimates:

https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...

These scooters are already at a fairly decent economy of production. Chinese factories are producing these in the thousands and companies are buying wholesale.

The core technology (batteries especially) is expensive, full stop. I’m curious where you think they could save money in larger scales? That’s not even to mention to get larger scale, they need more consumer adoption. I don’t have reliable data for this, but anecdotally I’ll say consumer interest is stagnant, and that’s already at unprofitable/heavily incentivized margins.

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by romwell on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:17PM (#22004457)
>Citation needed

Here's one supporting piece of evidence:

>Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100

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Re:Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100 by asdff on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:41PM (#22004762)
They cost $300. Maybe bird gets them for $200. Even if you cut the cost down to $100, that's still $100 a month per scooter to run the network.

https://qz.com/1561654/how-long-does-a-scooter-last-less-tha...

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