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E-scooter population in S'pore plunges 91.5% to 8,500

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The registered e-scooter population stood at about 8,500 as at end-March.

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Toh Ting Wei

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SINGAPORE - At the height of e-scooters' popularity less than two years ago, retailer Mobot could sell up to a thousand of them each month.
But after personal mobility devices (PMDs), including e-scooters, were banned from footpaths in November 2019, demand for the devices plunged. Now, Mobot's e-scooter sales are just 5 per cent of what they were previously.
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