Thanks to my broken scooter, I met very interesting people and went to places where an ordinary electric scooter user cannot go.
After I toldthat he "burned" his scooter, Ivan Turinge wrote to me - the general director electric scooter sharing service Yurent and offered to give a new controller.
Of course, talking with Ivan and learning interesting details about Urent was much more important for me. more interesting than just fixing my scooter, so I "asked for a visit" and was invited to service center Yurent.
Here, more than 20 craftsmen repair electric scooters from morning to evening, and the point is not that scooters break down so often, but in the fact that all scooters (and in Moscow there are 10,000 of them) are regularly "prevention".
In addition to the three "mechanical" workshops, Urent has an "electronic" workshop, where they not only repair electronics, but also develop their own firmware (all scooters in Moscow, the factory firmware has been changed so that scooters ride uphill better, in addition, Moscow scooters can change the speed limit in parks and crowded places).
A stand of four scooters "without the scooters themselves" for testing firmware and checking the operation of electronic components.
In Moscow, Yurent uses Ninebot Max Plus scooters with double front shock absorbers and a removable battery (both DOT requirements).
The batteries in these scooters have a capacity of 551 Wh.
Try to calculate how much energy is here. :)
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There are other scooters as well. These Okai are used in the suburbs.
Five of these "monsters" with hefty 14-inch wheels were bought "for testing".
And here is my Ninebot ES1 scooter. Although after I changed the controller it worked, they took it away from me and said that I needed to see if everything else was in order, as a result, they sorted it out entirely. :)
Urent appeared in 2018 and at first worked only in Sochi, then in Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik and other southern cities. Yurent came to Moscow in 2020, and now it is the largest electric scooter sharing operator in Russia, operating in 100 cities and having more than 70,000 scooters.
In Moscow, Yurent, Whoosh and Yandex each have 10,000 scooters (no longer allowed to have the Department of Transport). With a high probability, next season all three will be allowed to expand the fleet to 15,000.
The same Deptrans requires that scooters be parked only in stationary parking lots (they are installed in the form of black metal arcs at their own expense by kicksharing operators, each costs 13,000 rubles). All sharing companies really want to make parking virtual (so that in convenient places, not interfering passers-by, there were points visible in the application where you can leave scooters), but Deptrans has not yet allows.
The main idea of Yurent, which I strongly support, is that sharing electric scooters is no longer entertainment, but transport. Therefore, finally, it became possible to pay only for the duration of the trip (in order not to pay 45-50 rubles for the start of the trip each time, you can buy a subscription for 149 rubles per month). Now there are already day passes (so far it’s expensive - 790 rubles), most likely season passes will appear over time, allowing, just like in Moscow bike rental, to pay once at the beginning of the season and ride all spring, summer and autumn is free.
In order not to waste extra time, scooters no longer have to be fastened at the end of the rental.
I asked how many scooters disappear without a trace and was very surprised by the answer: since the beginning of the 2022 season, out of ten thousand scooters in Moscow, TWO (!!!) have disappeared. Of course, there were many more theft attempts, but all the other scooters were returned, and the thieves were punished.
He asked what happens when scooters are abandoned anywhere, ending the rental in places other than the parking spaces marked on the app. They answered that they warn for the first time, when they repeat, they simply disconnect from the service and block the account.
From the moment I met Ivan, I began to actively use Yurent. The only trip more than 100 rubles was at the beginning, when I had not yet bought a Plus subscription for 149 rubles, so that the start of the rental was free.
I know that many people hate electric scooter sharing for dangerous and sloppy riding. This is largely due to the fact that people have not yet fully realized how to properly use the new transport. Now, in many places in Moscow, “slow zones” have been introduced for kicksharing, where the maximum speed is automatically reduced (at VDNKh, the lowest speed is 7 km/h). I really hope that over time people will learn to ride and there will be much less problems with "scooters".
Electric scooter rental is a convenient and useful transport that allows you to get very quickly over short distances. I believe and hope that in a couple of years it will be possible to take a scooter right at the entrance of your house, drive it to any point and complete the lease there.
I made a short video about the service center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Fs9XL94fFVQ
Many thanks to Ivan Turinga for the opportunity to see Yurent "from the inside", learn a lot of interesting things, and of course for the repair of my scooter!
Peace for everyone!
© 2022, Alexey Nadezhin
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