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Lessons learnt from Singapore’s love-hate relationship with e-scooters
It’s been a bumpy road rolling out e-scooters, but Neuron Mobility’s Zachary Wang believes the future of urban transport will be shared, electric and small, he tells Sumiko Tan.
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Zachary Wang is co-founder and chief executive of Neuron Mobility, an e-scooter sharing company. Neuron designs and manufactures its e-scooters, which operate in countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
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Zachary Wang was 17 years old when he boarded a plane for the first time.
Several months earlier, a poster at his high school in Hubei province, China, had caught his eye. It was an invitation to apply for a Singapore government scholarship to a university in Singapore. “I was so excited,” he recalls. “I really wanted to go out and see what the world looks like.”
