How to Use e-scooter in a Sentence

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• Last month, Baltimore issued a new round of e-bike and e-scooter permits for public use around the city.
  — Dana Munro, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
• Unfortunately, that shift in turn helped explain why the median age of an injured e-bike and e-scooter user was higher.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 25 July 2024
• Now the city wants to reverse course to lure e-scooter companies back.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• Last year, there were a total of 116 fires involving e-bikes and e-scooters.
  — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• Uber next plans to add the effects of using e-bikes, e-scooters, and UberX Share rides booked on the app, according to Axios.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Those with a smartphone can locate, rent and park dockless e-scooters and e-bikes through an app, or riders can use the text-to-unlock plan.
  — Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
• Two people were seen near the museum riding e-scooters at about the time of the robbery, police told the museum.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 8 May 2024
• Two 15-year-old boys are in the hospital after being hit by a car while riding an e-scooter on Tuesday evening.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
• At the end of the pilot program, the city conducted a survey that showed a 30 percent decrease in support for e-scooters in Lakewood.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
• Last year, an eight-year-old girl was killed when a e-scooter’s lithium-ion battery exploded in a couple’s living room in Queens.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The company has also quadrupled its fleets since the pandemic began, with more than 6,500 e-scooters and e-bikes across the region.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
• Why not try parking your gas-wasting car for short trips and ride-share, borrow or buy an eBike, e-scooter or street-legal electric golf cart.
  — Edward Humes, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
• In other Flickr albums, the rise of e-scooters from companies like Bird is evident.
  — Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
• Custom Robotics is preparing to launch a rugged off-road e-scooter called the Panzer.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2024
• In one incident in January, an e-bike or e-scooter battery caught fire and injured 18 children at a day care in Queens.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
• Bike totals also include e-bike, moped, and e-scooter riders.
  — John Surico, Curbed, 21 Dec. 2023
• San Diego was on the early front line of the e-scooter war because of our year-round temperate climate and our ranking as a top tourist destination.
  — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2024
• Investing in improvements for rail, bus, roads and last-mile solutions like e-bikes and/or e-scooters.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
• The solution is to realize that e-bikes and e-scooters are motor vehicles.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2024
• But Take Note: Experts recommend against e-scooters for anyone under 16 years old.
  — Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 29 Sep. 2023
• Four months after the return of e-scooters to Dallas, city transportation officials could change the rules to allow rides a little past 9 p.m. and increase the amount of scooters downtown.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• And there’s pride in getting all those old tires, trash cans and e-scooter batteries out of the water (the scooter companies hate the magnet fishers — they get fined by the city for every scooter the fishers recover).
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Bird Global, a pioneer in the business of renting out e-scooters and e-bikes to help city dwellers get around, filed for bankruptcy protection early Wednesday morning.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
• The company also said deliveries of its EVs rose about 5% from the previous quarter, and that deliveries of e-scooters surged.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The e-scooter benefits from cameras front and back, includes GPS location tracking and can be remotely unlocked via an app running on a paired smartphone.
  — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 18 July 2024
• Many e-bikes and e-scooters are perfectly safe, but bad batteries (and other bad hardware, such as chargers) at risk of igniting are making their way into some products.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 5 July 2023
• This e-scooter’s 14-inch tires and spacious platform also boost stability — a major perk when hauling cargo.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2024
• And note that these recommendations apply to any device that uses a lithium-ion battery—like your smartphone—not just e-bikes, e-scooters, or hoverboards.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
• After a brief debate at the Sept. 5 meeting, the City Council directed its staff to explore ways to put e-scooter and e-bike use under the same regulations as the city’s current bicycle ordinance.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Further, pedestrian complaints and safety concerns have led to cities from San Francisco to New York to either prohibit or restrict e-scooters.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024