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Go Sharing, one of the largest shared scooter suppliers in the Netherlands, retires from 33 of the 45 Dutch cities where the company is active.
“We mainly see that usage is simply very low in a number of municipalities. We cannot keep the operation there,” said a company spokesperson. NH News.
Of the 45 municipalities where electric scooters are now located, twelve will soon remain: Eindhoven, Tilburg, The Hague, Breda, Delft, Almere, Den Bosch, Schiedam, Haarlem, Leeuwarden, Dordrecht and Rotterdam.
Alternative to mobility
Go Sharing started in 2019 with shared scooters. It was to become an alternative to the car and an addition to public transport.
In April last year, an investor still stabbed 50 million euro in the company. But a year and a half later, the company was unable to profit from the shared scooters. on his website Go Sharing highlights the uncertainties of the market, making investors more cautious. “That’s why we decided to focus first on making our system profitable.”
Spreading scooters
Since launch, there have been complaints about shared scooters. The number of scooters in Tilburg became start this summer from the municipality almost halved, from 400 to 250, after more than a thousand complaints were received. The electric scooters were left in the driveways or on the sidewalk where they obstructed the passage. Sometimes they were set on fire or ended up in a shopping cart.
There is a special Instagram account in Alkmaar Spreader Scooter072 on which local residents show that many shared scooters are left on their sides in the grass or ditch.
Available everywhere
Alkmaar is one of the municipalities where shared scooters are disappearing. The electric mopeds will be redistributed between the cities where the company will remain active, anyone who still has credit on the app will be able to continue using it until the scooters have left the city or in the twelve cities where the shared scooters remain for rent.
Competitor Felyx, also a Dutch scooter sharing company, is active in twelve cities and will remain available there.
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