Scooters Help Europeans Dodge the Sweat After Launch in Germany

E-scooters have only been legal in Germany for a matter of days, but public curiosity -- as well as a Continental heatwave -- has already made them a common sight in many cities.

Lawrence Leuschner, chief executive officer of one of Europe’s biggest e-scooter providers, Tier Mobility, said the app required to locate and unlock a Tier scooter was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times in Germany during the first four days. Users in the country made a collective 300,000 kilometers of journeys on Tier scooters in that time, he said.