Bird says its Bird One scooters will have a 473Wh battery, which VanderZanden says is twice the battery power as other e-scooters. That gives each scooter a range of up to 30 miles on a single charge.

Bird's fleet of electric mobility devices that you rent off the street using an app will grow to include a moped this summer. The two-person Cruiser was designed and engineered in California and ...

Last week, I opened the Bird app and located a scooter on 30 th Place, an alley around the corner from my house in Venice. It was parked at someone’s back gate.

Bird says it will be testing the new system in scooters deployed in Milwaukee and San Diego, with Madrid to soon follow. If all goes well, the company plans to roll it out to the rest of the ...

Bird, recognizing the growing possibility that people will want to own electric scooters rather than share them, is launching a new scooter model available for purchase. Called the Bird One, it ...

However, it’s likely that the speed of the Bird Cruiser will be faster than Bird’s electric scooters. My guess is that we’ll see a 20 mph (32 km/h) top speed. That’s the legal limit for ...

Bird declined to share details on unit economics with The Times for this article, but VanderZanden told tech website the Verge in March that the scooters would need to stay active for six months ...

Bird scooters introduced a new service on Tuesday it's calling "monthly personal rentals." The idea is to sign people up for $25 monthly plans and they can scoot all they want during that time.

Mopeds, motorcycles and bicycles are defined as vehicles by state law and permitted to operate on state roads. But electric scooters are not. Bird scooters were distributed in the Third Ward today.

Bird scooters are strewn on a street in Hollywood (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) We close the year with an homage to a flightless Bird. Not the penguin nor the emu, but the pioneering scooter and ...

Santa Monica-based Bird was the first electric scooter company to reach a $1B valuation, which it achieved less than a year after its founding. The company operates thousands of electric scooters ...

All those Birds flitting about Reno — and yet, the city says, few reported accidents or acts of vandalism. "We have not had any reports of vandalized scooters through Reno Direct as of Sept. 6 ...