Jump bikes scrapped. An e bike without a battery is simply a. The scrapped bikes are the side effect of a deal that saw lime take only a limited part of the jump fleet mainly newer bikes and those in cities where the start up believed it could operate a. Update june 1 2020. Dozens upon dozens of e bikes with their li ion batteries removed ready to be sold for scrap.
Bike share museum shared a photo of seattles jump fleet. Uber is sending tens of thousands of its electric jump bikes to the scrap yard weeks after offloading the money losing bike share division on limethe news of the scrapped bikes has incensed bike. Bike enthusiasts said it was hard to watch and suggested that uber could have donated. Dewey offered to pay 250 over the scrap price uber is receiving for the bikes in exchange for a connection with uber or lime engineers to help unlock the bikes and move them to kolonis.
Uber is sending jump e bikes and e scooters to a scrap yard despite a bike shortage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Brian dewey ceo of bike sharing platform koloni wrote an open letter to uber ceo dara khosrowshahi with an offer to purchase jump bikes that are currently being sent to scrap yards. Following a new deal between uber and mobility start up lime for the sale of the formers jump e bike business many of its older electric bicycle and scooter models are now being scrapped for. Footage of the red jump bikes being scrapped at a north carolina recycling plant emerged on social media.
Videos posted on social media showed mountains of junked e bikes and.