Analysis

August 26, 2020

Diving in: startups go underwater to save their scooters

One European scooter company has a new way to save them.


Mimi Billing

4 min read

A Voi scooter appears under the surface in Copenhagen. Photo cred: Björn Wallenberg

Hundreds of e-scooters are picked up from waters around European cities every year. In Stockholm, the lake cleaning organisation Rena Mälaren has picked up 355 in total in the last couple of years. In Paris another organisation, Guppy, has picked up 235 over seven excursions.

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Diving for scooters in Stockholm. Left to right: Fredrik Hjelm, chief executive and founder of Voi, Fredrik Johansson, diver and founder of Rena Mälaren, and Kristina Hunter Nilsson, VP Communications at Voi.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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