Kinto share e-bike in Copenhagen.
“We’re not the only player in town, but we’re the only player that offers cars and bicycles on the same platform,” Nicola Dallatana told me from his office in Brussels.
Dallatana is head of innovation for Toyota Europe and also leads on Kinto, a sub-brand of Toyota launched in 2019 as a mobility provider, including share cars.
In Copenhagen, Kinto’s share cars have been joined by share e-bikes, both booked via the same app. The Danish capital is the roll-out city for the bike/car offering, with others planned.
“Kinto’s car and bike service in Copenhagen is the first of what I hope will be a lot of similar projects around Europe,” said Dallatana.
“Many European cities are restricting private cars, reducing speed, removing parking spots, and making it more and more difficult for people to use their own cars.”
Share cars are one solution; for short hop journeys, e-bikes can fill in the last meter gaps.
Kinto share car in Copenhagen next to the Toyota’s sub-brand’s new share e-bikes.
“The undisputed king of personal mobility is the bicycle,” said Dallatana, who started his career in micromobilty twenty years ago with Segway in America.
Six hundred Kinto-branded pedal-assist e-bikes were placed on the streets of Copenhagen last week.
The bikes cost 24 cents per hour to rent and have to be stored in dedicated corrals. Tourists wishing to rent Kinto bikes can buy 120 minutes of cycle time for $11.50. Resident students can buy 10 hours of riding for less than $20.
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