Bird, one of the largest Companies e-scooter rental, now offers a monthly rental, costing 25 euros.
If you use an app on your mobile phone to locate a nearby e-scooter (or an electric scooter) to rent, the Bird now offering monthly rent for a percut amount of €25. The company is available to deliver the scooter to your door and will pick it up when you are done.
The problems are that Bird is not active in Greece so far and that the monthly rental only works in San Francisco and Barcelona. The new monthly rental service is only launching in these two cities, and if all goes well, the company expects to extend the packet and others later. Note that the Bird company has already announced its expansion to 50 European cities for this spring, without yet naming which ones they will be.
At present, by going to San Francisco or Barcelona, users can open the Bird application and enter information such as where and when they would like their Bird e-scooter to deliver (home, work, etc.). After completing your order, a Bird representative will confirm the details and arrange delivery of a Bird electric scooter, charger and a padlock. When the rental period expires, the company will come home to pick up the vehicle, the charger and the padlock.
The price sounds particularly advantageous since current prices are global from all companies, 1 Euros for unlocking and 0,10-0,40 cents per minute. Greece charges 0,15 cents per minute, which means that for half an hour you will be charged 1 euro + 0,15 X 30 minutes = 5,50 euro as a whole.
But this is not a special offer. The San Francisco made a law which prohibit all e-scooter companies (except two, Scoot and Skip) from leaving e-scooters on sidewalks without first seeking permission from the city. In fact it is a check of the unlimited number of e-scooters available for rent, scattered in the center of the cities. This policy came into effect in August 2018, and was believed to target Bird and Lime (Lime operates in Greece). Bird with the system delivery στην πόρτα σας, αποφεύγει το πρόβλημα της απόκτησης άδειας από την πόλη για τη λειτουργία μιας υπηρεσίας κοινής χρήσης σκούτερ επί πληρωμή.
