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E-scooters sales boom in Brisbane as shared e-scooter patronage returns to pre-COVID levels
The number of people buying e-scooters for private use is rising in Brisbane, even as the number of trips being taken on shared e-scooters returns to pre-COVID levels.
Key points:
- Brisbane City Council is finalising an e-mobility strategy to govern e-scooter and e-bike use
- Patronage on shared Lime and Neuron e-scooters has returned to pre-COVID levels
- Private sellers say the e-scooter market is increasingly busy
Brisbane City Council is developing a strategy to govern the use of both e-scooters and e-bikes citywide.
Director of iScoot Newstead Andre van der Merwe said his store, which launched in 2018, could sell between 10 and 20 e-scooters a day.
“Some people will turn up and they’ll leave a Lime [rental] scooter here and leave with one of…
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