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operate in and while we aren’t able to please everyone, we work hard to ensure our e-scooters are integrated successfully and unobtrusively into the urban landscape while providing a useful service to the public. Personally, it has highlighted the importance for us to remind people why we are doing this. Our aim is to enable people to make more journeys without their car, whether that’s popping to the shops, commuting or getting to the train station. In fact one in four journeys taken on our vehicles is made in combination with another form of transport.
What future developments can we expect from Tier? With Nextbike by Tier fully integrated into Tier we are now able to deliver the next- generation of complete and integrated solutions for cities looking to encourage people to
mobilise a small but strongly motivated minority of the Parisian public, who wanted to halt a popular, sustainable form of transport. The vote only concerned shared e-scooters in Paris
itself. We will continue to operate e-bikes in the city, which is a silver lining and we continue to operate e-scooters in over 80 towns and cities in the Paris region. However, we do foresee an increase in car usage as a knock on effect, something Paris has successfully been working towards reducing. Furthermore private e-scooters continue to be legal to ride in the city which means that many of the complaints residents in Paris had with anti-social riding behaviour such as pavement, tandem and drink riding will continue. Paris was an early adopter of shared micromobility and initially faced some issues due to a lack of regulation. At one point there were 15 operators in the city! We won a quality-based tender in 2020 and with thoughtful regulation use of the service flourished. With the city not renewing the shared e-scooter contracts we can’t help but feel this is a backwards step, especially against the backdrop of other major European cities choosing to re-tender. Looking at the broader impact, happily the factors behind the outcome of the vote have been understood. We have good relationships with the towns and cities we
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adopt micromobility and move away from car dependency. We can offer any combination of parking models, from docked through to dockless, and a full range of vehicles from push bikes and e-bikes to e-scooter and e-cargo bikes. A lot of people don’t see an alternative to their cars, and we can provide a realistic alternative for most urban journeys. However, all of our efforts can only be so effective if there isn’t widespread, sensible infrastructure built for bikes, e-scooters and cargo bikes for people and businesses to use. Our aims, to reduce car usage and improve cycling infrastructure are the same as the bike industry at large. With more people using bikes and e-scooters, the need for that infrastructure becomes more apparent and together we are able to apply even more pressure on governments to build on the work they have done so far and accelerate the changes that are still desperately needed.
Tier Mobility, based in Germany, provides people with shared e-scooter, e-bike and pedal bike services. Following the recent acquisitions of Nextbike and Spin, Tier is now present in more than 500 cities and communities in 31 countries with a fleet of more than 350,000 vehicles. Tier’s investors include SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Mubadala Capital, Northzone, Goodwater Capital and White Star Capital.
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