Next year, a network of kick scooter rental stations will open in Moscow, St Petersburg and Kazan, then in Berlin, Brussels and Paris. The service, designed by Russian startup Samocat.net, will be available through an app, and rental points will be linked into a single network through a cloud platform.
Samocat’s founder, Vasily Bykov, has been inspired by the trend he’s seen over the past several years — a growing number of Muscovites, fed up with traffic jams and long distances, use kick scooters to get from the nearest metro station to their place of work. Next year, he plans to launch a network of rental points where people can rent a scooter. Each point will occupy an area of up to two square meters, and offer from 6 to 12 scooters. Rentals will cost about $10 a month, or $1.5 a day; and renting a scooter for less than 60 minutes will be free.
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