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What You Need to Know This Week

• Joe Biden fell off his bike in Delaware.

• Retail report: Walmart now carries full-suspension, mid-drive electric bikes, a departure from its traditional focus on entry-level models; Halfords, the largest bike retailer in the UK, saw its share price tumble amid supply chain and inflation troubles; REI is adding some high-spec electric cargo bikes to its lineup and offering in-store service as well.

• Helbiz intends to acquire Wheels, a shared micromobility platform that operates a fleet of 8,000 vehicles across the US.

• UPS is now using its cycleway-friendly eQuad electric quadracycle to deliver parcels in New York City.

• Why power specs don’t necessarily tell you all that much about ebike performance.

• The Ola S1 Pro emoped now features cruise control thanks to an OTA update.

• Autotalks is selling a V2X technology, built on the Commsignia platform, to micromobility manufacturers to prevent crashes by alerting riders to potential collisions.

• Harley-Davidson’s Serial 1 has at last launched its SWITCH/MTN electric mountain bike.

• Electric three-wheeler sales in India have doubled over the last year.

• A recent study shows, after receiving a financial incentive to buy an ebike, people start cycling about 20% more.

• A Canadian escooter retailer says the majority of its sales since Covid emerged have been to food delivery businesses.

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Micromobility America is gearing up to return to the SF Bay Area on September 15-16, bringing two stacked days of exceptional content, networking, rides, product launches, and more.

Meet founders, c-level executives, investors, product developers, media, and other leaders to explore what role micromobility will play in the future of urban transportation.

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• Montreal’s Bixi, the second largest bikeshare system in North America, saw a record-breaking 1.3M trips in May.

• With supply chains constricted, the market for ebike conversion kits is taking off.

• Why owning your own operations matters in shared scooters: “The theory is that running operations in-house gives a company fuller visibility into its costs and operations and greater control over them.”

• Paris is still Europe’s shared mobility capital in terms of fleet size, but Milan has the most shared vehicles per capita.

• Here’s a handy literature review covering the best practices for integrating micromobility and mass transit: “200–220 m from the docking station to the public transport station… has been found as the maximum distance that users are willing to walk to access public transport after returning the shared micro-vehicle.”

• Bafang unveiled new 3-speed automatic shifting hub transmission.

• Why computer vision is key to enabling shared micromobility adoption.

• A new report finds that the average pedal bike in the US sells for $753, while the average ebike costs $2,600.

• You are nearly three times more likely to die in a traffic collision in the United States than in France, but as recently as the 1990s, the two countries had roughly equivalent road fatality rates.

• The average monthly car payment in the US has hits a record high of $712.

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Jobs to Be Done

Welcome to our jobs board, where every week we post open positions in hopes of connecting our talented readers with professional opportunities in the burgeoning world of new mobility. Find out who’s hiring below and sign up for the newsletter to view fresh listings every week.

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Dance: Software Engineering Lead & Electronic Engineer (Berlin)

Felyx: General Manager Germany (Berlin)

Micromobility Industries: Content Lead & Sales/Account Manager (remote)

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