Mobility news and trends

Dance Raises $13 Million to Grow Electric Mobility Subscription Services
Investments // March 12, 2025

Dance secured 12 million euros (about $13 million) in a funding round to grow its electric mobility subscription services in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. The company will use the new funding to further develop its hardware and software and expand its fleet of electric bikes...

Bolt Technology Reportedly Exploring IPO for Ride-Hailing Operation
Ridesharing // February 26, 2025

Estonia-based Uber rival Bolt Technology is reportedly exploring an initial public offering (IPO). The mobility company is exploring options that could include an IPO, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 26), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources say the company could pursue a listing as early as 2026,...

Eurowag Debuts New Visa Card for Fleet Management
Transportation // February 18, 2025

Eurowag has teamed with Visa and Nexi’s Nets on a new payment card for fleet management. The Eurowag Visa card, announced by the payments and mobility platform Tuesday (Feb. 18), replaces the previous Eurowag Mastercard and complements Eurowag’s existing closed-loop fuel offering, letting customers use...

Treasurers Stuck in Neutral as Commuter Transport Sector Speeds Ahead
Business // December 16, 2024

Companies have a lot to consider — the market, their employees, short-term implications, potential outcomes and more. In the mobility industry, the changing nature of how and why entities move means those decision-making processes involve a lot of volatility. And too often sector treasurers are...

Interviews & Exclusives
Earnings Point to Different Routes for Lyft and Uber

May 08, 2024
Uber and Lyft bring to mind the oft-quoted Robert Frost poem. You know the one — about two roads that diverged. The rest of the poem is about the woods, the path not taken … but more than a century after its publication, it proves apt for online platforms, for the digital age. Uber and […]

Visa Says Adoption of Open-Loop Transit Payments Is at a Tipping Point Worldwide

March 17, 2023
As transit systems move away from legacy payment methods like pay-as-you-go passes and toward contactless open-loop payments, it’s creating new commerce possibilities that not only benefit ridership and relieve urban...

Inside The Race For Flying-Taxi Liftoff

September 12, 2019
This might still sound like science fiction to many people, but the race for flying-taxi dominance is on and is gaining fresh fuel as the new decade looms. The results...

Can Lime’s Safety Push Attract More Bike, Scooter Users?

November 08, 2018
Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. That might seem, from certain angles, a decent problem to have: A mode of transportation often associated with the same...

Quick Reads
Dance Raises $13 Million to Grow Electric Mobility Subscription Services

March 12, 2025
Dance secured 12 million euros (about $13 million) in a funding round to grow its electric mobility subscription services in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. The company will use the new funding to further develop its hardware and software and expand its fleet of electric bikes and mopeds, Dance said in a Tuesday (March 11) press release. […]

Bolt Technology Reportedly Exploring IPO for Ride-Hailing Operation

February 26, 2025
Estonia-based Uber rival Bolt Technology is reportedly exploring an initial public offering (IPO). The mobility company is exploring options that could include an IPO, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Feb. 26), citing sources familiar with...

Eurowag Debuts New Visa Card for Fleet Management

February 18, 2025
Eurowag has teamed with Visa and Nexi’s Nets on a new payment card for fleet management. The Eurowag Visa card, announced by the payments and mobility platform Tuesday (Feb. 18),...

European Mobility Platform Bolt Notches €100M Investment

May 26, 2020
With funding that will help keep growing its product categories from ridesharing to food delivery and micro-mobility in Africa as well as Europe, Bolt closed a €100m investment round. Naya...