2023-07-06 18:46:54
Yego electric scooters have been established in Paris since June 2021. Yego
They will be able to deploy up to 2,500 machines each for the first two years and up to 3,000 from 2026.
Electric scooters are now banned in Paris, it is the turn of electric scooters to be better regulated. Launched more than a year and a half ago, the call for tenders to limit the number of electric scooter operators in the streets of the capital to three has (finally) been concluded according to information from the Echos confirmed by Le Figaro. Unsurprisingly, Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s team has chosen to keep the three operators best established in the capital: namely, Cityscoot, Yego and Cooltra. An official announcement is expected on this subject this Thursday, July 6.
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Five years to seduce and convince
Arrived on the podium in front of a dozen candidates, they are preparing to sign a convention of occupation of the public domain (CODP), giving them the authorization to deploy their fleet for the next five years. According to the terms of the call for tenders, they will be able to deploy up to 2,500 machines each for the first two years and up to 3,000 from 2026, but will also have to meet a certain number of obligations. Among them in particular, respecting the public space and the brand new Parisian street code, offering a good working environment to its employees or even providing guarantees as to the durability of the scooters.
Other operators were left behind, such as Troopy. The French start-up launched its two Yamaha brand electric scooters in the streets of the capital in the fall. The first, the NEO’s scooter was a 50cc equivalent and the second, the E01 scooter was a 125cc equivalent. Another scenario: when the operator chooses to withdraw on his own. This is particularly the case of the Californian operator Lime, which in April 2021 announced its ambition to deploy a fleet of 1,000 electric scooters in Paris and to apply for the City’s call for tenders. Before changing your mind.
It remains to be seen what will happen to these electric scooters in 5 years, when it will be time to take stock. As of September 1, the three electric scooter operators – Dott, Lime and Tier – who had won a similar call for tenders in July 2020 will have to pack up. The Parisians having saidnon” almost 90% to this mode of transport, during a “citizen voteorganized at the request of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. In question ? Their deployment deemed “anarchic» and their dangerousness on the road.
But there is no reason for history to repeat itself, insofar as the difficulties inherent in the rapid deployment of these small machines in Paris do not apply to scooters. “These are not the same issues at all.“, we qualify at the Town Hall, explaining that if there is a real problem of regulation of self-service electric scooters in public space, this is not at all the case for scooters. electric vehicles that can be parked anywhere as long as it is a parking space for two-wheelers or cars. Not to mention that faced with the 15,000 electric scooters, there are currently no more than 5,000 electric scooters available in Paris.
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