2023-08-24 07:00:00
The 15,000 self-service scooters, operated by Dott, Lime and Tier, will be permanently removed from the streets of the capital by September 1.
No way to put them away. The withdrawal of the 15,000 self-service electric scooters branded Dott, Lime or Tier is being organized in Paris, a few months following the decision of the municipal majority led by Anne Hidalgo to end their contract. Direct consequence of the results of the citizens’ vote organized on Sunday April 2, during which the Parisians had mainly voted “ once morest» maintaining this shared mobility service. For several weeks, the latter have therefore begun to withdraw their motorized vehicles in successive waves. “There are less and less“, confirms William, a young thirty-something Parisian, who noticed the disappearance of these two-wheelers long decried to occupy “totally anarchic» public space.
«We remove regarding 400 scooters per day, and we will increase to 750 scooters in the last days“, assures Erwann Le Page, the director of public affairs Western Europe at Tier Mobility, who affirms that the entire fleet will be withdrawn on September 1. In the meantime, the German group intends to take full advantage of its presence on the Parisian market. “We know that, during the summer period, micro-mobility works rather well“, he specifies. As for knowing what will become of this fleet of 5,000 scooters once they are withdrawn, Erwann Le Page replies that “two-thirds of the fleet will leave for Germany and Poland” in the cities where Tier is already established, and that the remaining third “will be redispatched in Île-de-France».
Repaired and redispatched everywhere
«We are present in the urban community of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Grand Paris Seine et Oise and Val d’Europe, in the Val-de-Marne (…) all of this encompasses 80 municipalities with the prospect of continuing to develop“, welcomes the representative of Tier. Before that, all of the group’s scooters will be “sent to maintenance centers“, where they will be “straightening“even”fully repaired if needed“, before being redispatched in the region or across the Rhine. An important criterion for the company, which insists on the fact that “97% of partswhich make up each of them are “interchangeable“. The solution to increase their life expectancy, today estimated “between 5 to 6 years old».
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A speech shared by its American competitor Lime, which praises the environmental qualities of its Gen4 scooters: “much more robust than their elders“, they “have an estimated lifespan of 6.8 years» et «are 100% repairable“, knowing that “the 62 components of the scooters are all individually removable and replaceable».
In concrete terms, the 5,000 Lime vehicles will first be transported to the group’s Ile-de-France warehouse, wheremaintenance operations will be carried out on all Parisian electric scooters, before the gradual reassignment of the fleet in several dynamic European cities where user demand is growing“. Among them, Lille, in the north of France, but also foreign cities like Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark or London, the capital of England. Lime also talks regarding Germany, where the group continues to transition its armada of two wheels to replace the older generation of scooters in circulation.
Finally, on the side of the Franco-Dutch Dott, we started to remove the 5000 scooters from the park for more than a month already, so much so that there are already not many left. And as on the side of its competitors, they will be sent to other cities where the group already has a substantial fleet, in particular to Bordeaux, and to Brussels in Belgium, following having passed through the maintenance center. The cities of Rome, Italy, and Tel Aviv, Israel, might also receive some Parisian models. Discussions are ongoing.
What regarding employees?
Other questions arise, in particular regarding the future of the employees of the three companies concerned. Asked regarding this, Erwann Le Page explains that “the decision has not yet been made» at Tier and that «everything will depend on the modal transfer of users from scooters to bicycles“. He also asserts that the consolidation of the electric bicycle rental market of Dott, Lime and Tier is a “common fightconducted with the Parisian municipality, but remains measured. “Our goal is for as many people as possible to go cycling, but the latest trends show only a 12% carryover“raises the director of public affairs of Tier. Far from the 50% advanced by the municipal team, optimistic.
To respond to the qualified request of “growing» et «constantly increasing“, Lime has already announced for its part that it has disseminated 10,000 electric bicycles in the streets of the capital. As a reminder, the American company – following deploying 3,000 bikes at the time of its launch in 2018 – finally expanded its offer, with the agreement of the City of Paris, to 5,000 bikes in 2021, 7,000 in 2022 and now has more. 10,000. Last year, the group thus “recorded a 73% increase in bicycle trips in the capital“, while “the number of users jumped more than 80% compared to 2021». «We had several months to organize ourselves internally and define our priorities. In Paris, we will continue to make every effort to guarantee users their freedom of movement via a bicycle fleet with exemplary maintenance and quality service.“, has also recently announced Hadi Karam, the general manager of Lime in France. A strategy he considers “pays off given the growing increase in Lime e-bike journeys in the capital».
And if Lime batteries are completely removable and interchangeable between scooters and bikes, that “drastically optimizes maintenance operations“, underlines the group, which has not planned to reduce its number of employees in 2023. Contrary to what is happening at Dott, where at least fifty employees are affected by a “job saving plan” approved by the Ministry of Labor and still in progress, according to the Franco-Dutch company.
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