Lime and Bird Fast Facts

Lime and Bird

  • Both companies are planning to get rid of the scooters during the winter months → moving them down south. 
  • Lime is trying to spread awareness about safety through promotional means like Lime helmets.
  • Lime has a warehouse in Worthington where they repair and store all e-scooters and bikes.
    • We are in the process of trying to set up a tour of the facility.
  • Different scooter manufacturers for both Lime and Bird:
    • First proprietary design: “Lime-S”
      • Haitral, Logisys, Swagtron, Partu
    • Segway
    • Ninebot (acquired Segway)
    • Xiaomi, Large investor in Ninebot
      • “Stategic allience” between Ninebot and Xiaomi
  • Lime allows you to play “Parked or Not” that allows the user to view pictures of scooters to determine if they are parked properly or not. This helps their strengthen their parking algorithm.

Some Differences between the 2 companies:scooters-01.png