Trial delays put a brake on e-scooter makers' UK ambitions

Safety concerns, especially over unregulated models, are matched with doubts over green credentialsE-scooter trials are to be prolonged until late 2022 as the government weighs up legalisation, with use of public rental vehicles dwarfed by that of an estimated half million illegal e-scooters in Britain.Legislation has been put on hold amid increasing safety concerns over private unregulated e-scooters - especially with tens of thousands more vehicles expected to be sold in the UK this Christmas - and scepticism that legal e-scooters can ameliorate congestion or public health. Continue reading...