共享電動滑板車在歐洲流行起來

Voi Technology, the "micro-mobility" startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding.

Voi Technology（瑞典電動摩托車初創公司）是一家“微移動”初創公司，在10個歐洲國家的38個城市中提供電動滑板車服務，這家公司在B輪融資中獲得8500萬美元融資。

Launched in 2018, the company is best-known for its e-scooter rentals but now pitches itself as a micro-mobility provider, offering a number of different transport devices. These include various e-scooter and e-bike models, in a bid to become a broader transport operator helping to re-shape urban transport and wean people off using cars.

這家公司成立於2018年，最出名的業務就是出租電動滑板車，但現在宣傳說要提供微移動服務，提供多種交通工具，其中包括不同的電動滑板車和電動自行車。該公司參與了一場投標，要拓展交通工具的業務範圍，致力於重塑城市交通，讓人們放棄汽車。

To date, Voi says it has 4 million registered users and has powered 14 million rides. More recently it has launched new, more robust hardware that has been designed to sustain the rigours of commercial e-bike sharing. The idea is that more suitable hardware will help e-scooter companies improve margins since more rides can be extracted from the life-span of each vehicle.

Voi公司稱截止目前註冊用戶達400萬，騎行次數高達1400萬次。最近又推出了新的更耐用的車輛，能承受得住作爲商業共享電動車的使用。他們的初衷是車輛更耐用將有助於電動滑板車公司提高利潤，因爲每輛車在使用壽命內能提供更多的騎行次數。

On that note, Voi says it will use the new funding to develop "strong profitable businesses" in the 38 cities where it is already operating, as well as increase its R&D spend to improve its technology platform and products. Earlier this year, the company announced that it is already profitable in the cities of Stockholm and Oslo.

Voi公司在記錄中說將利用新資金在38個已有業務的城市中推廣“盈利較高的業務”，還要增加研發資金用於升級技術平臺和產品。今年早些時候該公司宣佈已經在斯德哥爾摩和奧斯陸盈利。

"Clearly, we feel we are on track to achieve this in more of our cities and that is our aim," Voi co-founder and CEO Fredrik Hjelm tells me. "At this point, a key focus for us is to ensure we continue to increase the lifetime of our e-scooters, forge key partnerships and continue to work in those cities which provide the best conditions for a profitable e-scooter business".

Voi公司聯合創始人兼首席執行官Fredrik Hjelm對我說：“顯然，我們認爲能在更多的城市中盈利，這是我們的目標。在這一點上，我們關注的重點是確保能繼續提高電動滑板車的壽命、建立關鍵合作伙伴關係並繼續在能爲盈利的電動滑板車業務提供最好條件的城市發展業務”。