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E-scooters are changing Berlin. I rode them for a week to find out how.


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There's an electric scooter revolution happening in Europe. 

In the past year or so, the rentable, battery-powered, two-wheeled vehicles have swarmed European cities like Paris, Brussels and Madrid. And Berlin, with some 5,000 e-scooters operating and more to come, is gunning for the title of Europe's e-scooter capital. 

I'd only tried riding an e-scooter once before. I was never convinced of their practicality or sustainability. So, I tried to change my mind by using only e-scooters to get around Berlin for about a week, as I was covering the IFA trade show

A different Berlin

Berlin has an amazing public transportation network. You can ride the U-Bahn (subway), the S-Bahn (train), trams and buses, all with a single ticket, and the city's wide streets are thoroughly interspersed with bicycle lanes. So is there even any point in adding e-scooters into the mix? Read more...

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