Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scooters following Jump sale

Re:Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scoote... by zrobotics on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:02AM (#23346431)

Weren't the scooter companies paying random people who signed up to go charge the scooters themselves at their homes? Surely that's far higher liability.

Plus, if this was a concern how on earth is the used car market able to survive? I just don't think liability factors in here at all. My guess is that scrapping them is easier and nets about the same amount of money as selling them. Selling that many scooters off piecemeal would take quite a bit of time & effort, plus costs to store them in the meanwhile.

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Re:Uber is destroying thousands of electric bikes and scoote... by maccam94 on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:53PM (#23356540)

Scooters yes, e-bikes no. The e-bikes have much bigger batteries. More energy = bigger boom. They also probably only had a fraction of chargers compared to the number of bikes, and sourcing more would probably take a lot of extra time and expense. It would have been better if they could find another bikeshare operator to sell to, but I can understand why they didn't sell to consumers.

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