Scoot Scoot

Walk the city, bus the city, train through the city, bike the city, cab the city, drive through the city. Scoot around the city!!!

San Fran is releasing a nice alternative to the zip car, which would make cruising from Fairmount to S. Philly on a Saturday night a blast and a lot easier to park. How do we get these bad boys to Philadelphia?

Photo by Jake Metcalf

If you’ve always wanted to be part of a scooter gang (Heck’s Angels, anyone?) but don’t want to invest in a scooter, we’ve got great news: The Zipcar of electric scooters is about to be unleashed.

Scoot Networks, a startup that emerged from the Greenstart cleantech accelerator, launched this week with the aim of bringing the joys of zipping around on a scooter to the masses. “We were looking at collaborative consumption and electric vehicles, and hit on the opportunity of using these affordable and efficient electric scooters in a European-style bike sharing system, and adding to that all the smarts and technology you find in Silicon Valley,” explains CEO Michael Keating.

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