The Latest Breaking News from Lime

Sadiq Khan appoints supporter who created '#YesWeKhan' as London deputy mayor for the environment

Mete Coban gets £147,000 City Hall job

Evening Standard · Jul 19, 2024

Do Four E-Scooters Make a Car? Someone Found Out

If balancing on one e-scooter is too difficult, why not put together a sketchy frame, add a seat and a Wii steering wheel, and drive 4 scooters like a car?

RideApart · Jun 13, 2024

E-scooter hire firm Voi threatens to pull out of 'too heavily regulated' London

The company says it could instead choose to deploy a fleet of 20,000 e-bikes across the capital as they face less strict rules

Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024

London council pleads: 'Give us powers to crack down on abandoned e-bikes'

Westminster council says new legislation is 'missing link' in enabling boroughs to tackle lazily-parked hire bikes

Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2024

London's Lime bike epidemic: badly parked cycles are a scourge on the capital's streets

They have transformed the way we get about in our city but the sheer amount of discarded cycles strewn on our pavements has become an increasing menace. Robbie Griffiths reports

Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2024

Whose Lime is it anyway? How the green ebikes took over our streets

Are the tech giant’s bikes a convenient and sustainable form of transport or a menace clogging up pavements?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2024

Banksy stop sign: Metropolitan Police arrest man after Peckham theft

Men used bolt cutters to steal sign worth up to £500,000

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2023

Emergency doctors call for tighter controls on e-scooters as Melbourne injuries skyrocket

Injuries presenting to Royal Melbourne hospital jumped from five in February 2022 to 40 in December last year after Victoria’s e-scooter trial began

The Guardian - AU · Dec 20, 2023

Love them or hate them, a UK government decision on e-scooters is well overdue

Despite local trials being cut short for safety concerns, regulation has been kicked down the road, says Oliver Wainwright, the Guardian’s architecture and design critic

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2023

E-scooters stuck in legislation limbo as mood sours among Britons

Some champion their environmental impact, others point out potential dangers – but most agree regulation is needed

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023