E-bikes: Uber Bike to be launched in Berlin

Wanting to expand its services to other modes of transportation, Uber has just announced the launch of a self-service electric bike system in Berlin.

If the law prohibits him from entering Berlin with VTC, Uber will still have a drop-off point in the German capital. These will not be cars, but self-service e-bikes. The first in Europe for a California-based company to rely on the know-how of Jump Bikes, a startup specializing in the field, acquired last April.

« The team is working hard to roll out Jump to Berlin by the end of the summer, and we also plan to launch it in other European cities in the coming months. " This was announced by the CEO of Uber Dara Khosrowshahi at a press conference in the German capital.... “We are especially passionate about bicycles because they provide a convenient and environmentally friendly form of transport, even in densely populated cities where space is scarce and roads can be congested. "It is completed.

Like VTC, the Uber app will be at the heart of the new system, which should work “freely”, that is, without fixed stations. An application that will allow you to find bikes and unlock and lock them at the end of use.