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February 10, 2020

Cooltra must move 1,200 of its mopeds out of Barcelona — and it's not happy

Barcelona’s City Hall has become the first European city authority to limit the number of licences for shared e-mopeds.


Tim Smith

4 min read

New regulations announced in Barcelona on Friday have placed a limit on the number of shared electric mopeds in the city. Now, a maximum of 6,958 vehicles will be permitted on the city's streets, divided evenly between 21 providers.

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Cooltra CEO and cofounder Timo Buetefisch
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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