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Electric bikes and scooters for rent, including VeoRide Inc. scooters and Lime and Uber Technologies Inc. bikes, parked on a corner along the National Mall on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
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“This is too big a market transition to fumble,” said Alex Keating, Veo’s VP of policy and partnerships. “So, we started our investment early.”<\/p>\n
Keating says the roughly 9,000-vehicle fleet set to be installed in Denver will break a record as the largest single-vendor fleet in the country — which also allows them to lower prices.<\/p>\n
“It’ll be more affordable for everyone,” said Keating. “Twenty five cents a minute for residents, 39 cents for visitors. That’s already a deep discount on what’s on the street today.” <\/p>\n
Affordability and safety are two issues Veo has addressed. According to Denver Health’s data, in 2024 and 2025 they treated just shy of 2,000 patients<\/a> annually for scooter and e-bike injuries<\/a>. <\/p>\n “Our in-house design and manufacturing is always focused on the safest, most durable vehicles, regardless of whether it’s a standing scooter or a seated scooter or a bike. That means our standing scooters have front and rear suspension. We’re the only ones who manufacture that way.” <\/p>\n Their fleet also includes more sitting vehicles such as bikes and trikes in addition to standard scooters. <\/p>\n “That has significant safety benefits, we see about 35% fewer crashes or injuries on the seated vehicles.” <\/p>\n Veo vehicles are equipped with under-deck lighting for night rides and “slow zones” and “no-ride zones.” For example, if someone is riding along a 16th Street pedestrian area, the scooter would alert them and begin to slow down. <\/p>\n “Bringing in a fleet mix that prioritizes safe riding is huge.” <\/p>\n It’s important to note that free rides for low-income riders aren’t going anywhere. Similar to Lime and Bird, the company has “Veo Access” which allows eligible riders up to 60 minutes in rides for free every day. <\/p>\n As they roll out their fleet, Veo is providing instant access for this feature without having to verify eligibility for 10 days.<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Denver, Lime and Bird scooters and e-bikes have been available to rent across the city for years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-610602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}