The Micromobility Podcast

Dani Horwitz, CEO of VMAX, discusses the company's journey and mission to provide high-quality electric scooters with a focus on safety and reliability for the US market. Highlights 🛴 Vmax Mobility, a Swiss-based company, is expanding to the US with high-quality, reliable scooters. 🏞️ The scooters are designed for a wide range of users, offering reliability and performance for everyday use. 🏆 Vm...

Summary James Gross and Scott Colosimo, the founder and CEO of Land Energy, covers the company's origin, evolution, and its focus on electric motorcycles. With his background in Cleveland and previous experience in manufacturing motorcycles, Colosimo is now planning to bring manufacturing back to Cleveland, focusing on electric bikes, which they initially started producing under Cleveland CycleWor...

Summary Today we have the exclusive launch of the P1 from Joseph and Eddie Cohen. The P1 is a new electric moped designed by start-up Infinite Machine to be fast, fun, and practical for urban transportation. It has a powerful motor, removable batteries, and tech features like wireless CarPlay. With its striking sculptural design, the P1 aims to make electric vehicles inspiring. Preorders are now o...

Summary James Gross talked with Ain McKendrick the Founder and CEO of Faction about how the future of delivery is evolving with Faction, offering new opportunities and advancements in the industry. Faction provides driverless delivery vehicles for last mile logistics by combining autonomous technology with remote human assistance. In the conversation, Ain discusses Faction's focus on short 3-5 mil...

Chapters: 00:00- 9:55 Announcements and Giveaways 9:56 - 19:17 Travel Patterns Are Changing 19:18 - 21:52 Electric Share is the only Share 21:53 - 24:51 The Dreaded Car Pickup Line 24:52 - 32:00 Vehicle Launches 32:00 - 47:34 Meet Sartee Bikes CEO  Notes - 🎙️ Hosts: James Gross and Julia Thayne discuss their experiences at the recent Climate Week in New York, shedding light on the intersection of...

Laura Kavanagh was appointed Fire Commissioner by Mayor Eric Adams in October 2022. As Fire Commissioner, Kavanagh oversees the day-to-day operations of the largest fire department in the country, with more than 17,000 employees and a $2 billion budget. We're excited to have Laura Kavanagh on the show today to talk specifically about battery fires, where according to the FDNY, batteries have led t...

According to Bloomberg NEF, there are nearly 300M electric two- and three-wheelers on the road worldwide, and collectively, they displace about 4x as much oil demand as the entire global fleet of electric cars. The EV revolution has arrived… on two/three wheels. Electric bike vouchers are increasing in popularity across the U.S. In Utah, the Utah Clean Air Partnership is working with Magnum Bikes...

Chapters:  00:00 - 5:20 Announcements and giveaways 5:21 - 8:59 NYC enforces traffic cameras 9:00 - 14:18 NYC Equitable Commute Project off to slow start 14:19 - 17:18 Lavoie buys Vanmoof  17:19 - 19:52 Kenya shipping electric motorcycles at scale 19:53 - 31:58 Vehicle Launches!  31:59 Interview with Patrick Wirth at Baloise Group NYC has speed cameras cranking  Here’s a novel idea for reducing ca...

Rerun: This episode was originally aired on 6 September 2023. Meet Julie Vets, Founder and CEO of GOLUO, https://gofluo.com/ , and learn how she is inventing the category of high visibility gear for everyone that is moving.  You can also see Julie present at Micromobility Europe 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7br1CqOz3EU&t=43s

James Gross interviews entrepreneur Dan Carr about the U.S. launch of Wombi, an all-inclusive electric cargo bike subscription, in Culver City and West LA Wombi aims to encourage people in Los Angeles to drive less, be more active, and enjoy their city. They offer electric cargo bikes as an alternative to cars, addressing issues like traffic, social isolation, and fluctuating gas prices. Wombi sta...

James' interview with Ed Niedermeyer Vehicle Launches Bengaluru-based Ola Electric is coming out with four new electric motorbikes, with sales and deliveries starting in a year. Among the latest additions is the S1-X, which the company claims will be one of the most affordable mopeds in India at $1,085. … on the other end of Ola’s new product spectrum is the outlandishly edgy Diamondhead. While li...

Jame Gross interviews Edward Niedermeyer, the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors. Nathan Robinson has suggested that there is probably no greater expert on the career of Elon Musk and the development of Tesla [than Niedermeyer] His insights regarding Tesla Autopilot in particular have been cited repeatedly.  Chapters:  00:00 - 03:54 CPUC ruling on paid operations on L4 AVs...

Chapters:  00:00 Intro 03:40 More consolidation coming to the world of shared micromobility? 08:46 Trek or Giant to buy Vanmoof?  11:23 How journalists are covering traffic violence against ebike riders  17:15 Mayor of Boston offering free bike lessons for kids  18:30 Vehicle Launches 21:42 Meet Keith Simon from Waev and new GEM line! Show notes:  Is more consolidation coming to the world of share...

James Gross and Micah Toll discuss Micah's latest article on Electrek:  The 'New York Times' attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger all around us  The New York Times published a pair of articles this weekend highlighting the rising number of deaths of cyclists riding  However, in one of the most impressive feats of victim-blaming I’ve seen from the publication in some time, the NYT lays th...

Ride On! is now in Audio! Subscribe to Ride On!:  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ride-on-by-micromobility-industries/id1434457337   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1G2fPNzUw5mo5asaCoH7O0 Chapters:  00:00 Intro 02:13 California announces new ebike license bill 10:08 Is Lyft quitting bike share?  18:58 Bolt still growing 22:54 Craig Mod essay on riding an ebike  25:33 V...

Ride On! is now in Audio! Subscribe to Ride On!:  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ride-on-by-micromobility-industries/id1434457337   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1G2fPNzUw5mo5asaCoH7O0 Chapters:  00:00 Intro 01:17 Vela 2 giveaway, Ride On! on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, Ride Expo date announced 05:45 Vanmoof Updates 10:40 City of London, bikes are bigger than cars ...

Rerun: This episode was originally aired on 20 July 2023. Vanmoof goes Poof. Cult ebike brand VanMoof has paused sales and some of its top execs are departing or taking lower roles. The company has yet to release an official statement on the abrupt changes, but sources say that they are trying to secure a bridge round to keep the business afloat. After several bouts of layoffs and lawsuits, US-bas...

This week we release another session from the recent Micromobility Europe conference - this one on Electrifying the Workplace - e-bikes as an employee benefit, hosted by none other than podcast superfan and overall mensch Roman Meliska.  Roman was joined on stage by folks from the Walmart, the European Cycling Federation, Safran and Zenride to talk about how e-bike as an employee benefit works in...

This is this week we are releasing another session from the recent Micromobility Europe which we had in June.  This one is the ebike revolution which was hosted by Micah Toll from Electrek who is in our minds one of the best micromobility journalists out there.  Please go and check his stuff out if you haven’t already. He was joined on stage by former guests of the podcast Taco Carlier from Vanmoo...

This week Oliver managed to catch up with Rich Pleeth while he was passing through London.  Rich is the founder of Finmile, a micromobility first freight company in London using four wheeler cargo e-bikes to deliver for companies such as HelloFresh and some very large global companies that unfortunately we can’t name but who Oliver was very impressed with.  They are expanding very quickly and have...

This week, we release another episode from the 2023 Micromobility Europe event.  This one is the shared scooter CEO’s talking about the state of their business, which was a very popular session on the Friday.  Ben Hubbard From Zag Daily had the leaders from some of the top operators from all over the globe on the stage – we had Henri Moissinac, Dott in Europe, Tomás Martin from Tembici in Latin Am...

This week, we are releasing a session from our recent Micromobility Europe show held in Amsterdam on June 8/9th.  This one is the rise of the subscription panel that was hosted by Jon Woodruff from Twotone with some of the titans of the e-bike sharing world, including Eric Quidwenus-Wahlforce, founder of Dance, Karianne Solfjed Eid, from Whee!, and Richard Burger from Swapfiets (all of whom we've...

At Micromobility Europe 2023, Oliver had the chance to sit down with Horace, who had just flown in from seeing the Apple Vision Pro at the WWDC unveil.  We have talked on the show for years about how augmented reality would benefit micromobility, and so we wanted to take this opportunity to unpack a little bit more about what he saw, the idea of special computing, and how it could impact how we th...

This week Oliver interviewed Stefan Ytterborn, founder and CEO of Cake Motorcycles from Sweden. They’ve emerged as one of the worlds leading motorbike manufacturers, solidly occupying the premium end of the market with very Scandinavian designed versions of electric motorbikes, and a strong focus on both commuters as well as backcountry use cases.  Oliver had a chance to ride some of these bikes a...

This week we release a discussion with Michael Keating that was recorded when Oliver was passing through San Francisco on the launch day of his new company Tempo.  For those who are in the know, Michael Keating is an OG of the Micromobility space, having founded Scoot back in 2012, which was one of the first moped sharing companies before selling it to Bird.  Tempo is Michael's latest venture and...