Michael KeatingElectric vehicles are digital assets
Zero tailpipe emissions. Instant torque. Quiet operation. Low maintenance. There is so much to celebrate about electric vehicles that one of their most obvious distinctions usually goes without saying: They are computers that move, and their movement is controlled by software. In web3, a resource controlled by software can be an asset, with all the composability that implies. As participants in web3 build bridges to the “real world” and look for real world assets to finance, tokenize, and oth...
Michael KeatingOwnership is the new sharing
Ten years ago, my team and I launched the first electric scooter sharing company, Scoot, in San Francisco. We designed a piece of electronics that gave each scooter an internet connection, and we created an app to find them, pay for them, and turn them on. Today, scores of companies offer over a million shared e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorbikes in cities all over the world. They have been ridden by hundreds of millions of people, most of them experiencing electric mobility for the first ti...
Michael KeatingElectric vehicles are digital assets
Zero tailpipe emissions. Instant torque. Quiet operation. Low maintenance. There is so much to celebrate about electric vehicles that one of their most obvious distinctions usually goes without saying: They are computers that move, and their movement is controlled by software. In web3, a resource controlled by software can be an asset, with all the composability that implies. As participants in web3 build bridges to the “real world” and look for real world assets to finance, tokenize, and oth...
Michael KeatingOwnership is the new sharing
Ten years ago, my team and I launched the first electric scooter sharing company, Scoot, in San Francisco. We designed a piece of electronics that gave each scooter an internet connection, and we created an app to find them, pay for them, and turn them on. Today, scores of companies offer over a million shared e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorbikes in cities all over the world. They have been ridden by hundreds of millions of people, most of them experiencing electric mobility for the first ti...
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Before starting to write at Mirror, I published at Medium, mostly about transportation and my previous company, Scoot. Some highlights are here:
There Are 300 Million Electric Bikes and only 10 Million Electric Cars (2021) - Because we are building the wrong kind of electric car.
How to Cut Ride Hailing Use by 50% (2019) - Proof that shared, electric motorscooters are the perfect substitute for traffic-inducing and dangerous ride hailing services.
San Francisco’s Huge Parking Opportunity (2019 with Laurence Wilse-Samson) - We show how much space SF wastes on car parking and what you could do with it.
Micromobility Doesn’t Have to be Disposable (2019) - After adding locks to our stand-on scooters, they stop getting stolen and trashed, a revelation to the industry.
New Delhi Will Leapfrog New York in Mobility (2018) - After visiting Delhi for Scoot, realizing that the future of e-mobility is in the global south.
What we learned from our first month of operating Scoot Kicks (2018) - After winning the San Francisco scooter permit, we reveal just how many scooters are getting stolen.
Shared Electric Vehicles are the Subways of the 21st Century (2018) - On Network Age transportation systems vs. Industrial Revolution transportation systems.
Shared Scooters, From the People Who Invented Shared Scooters (2018) - Scoot introduces stand-on e-scooters to our popular e-motorscooter and e-bike fleets.
The Snuggle (2017) - A riff on The Hard Thing About Hard Things after the birth of my son.
In the Cities of the Future, the People Will Drive Themselves (2016) - Why self-driving cars won’t take over cities. Not a popular opinion in Silicon Valley, but not yet wrong.
Why Apple Won’t Make a Car (2015) - Why whatever Apple is working on won’t be a car in the conventional sense. Still have my fingers crossed.
Conspicuous, but not Consuming (2009, with Stephen Linaweaver and Brad Bate) - We wonder if consumption of virtual goods could offset material consumption. Pre-NFTs :).
Before starting to write at Mirror, I published at Medium, mostly about transportation and my previous company, Scoot. Some highlights are here:
There Are 300 Million Electric Bikes and only 10 Million Electric Cars (2021) - Because we are building the wrong kind of electric car.
How to Cut Ride Hailing Use by 50% (2019) - Proof that shared, electric motorscooters are the perfect substitute for traffic-inducing and dangerous ride hailing services.
San Francisco’s Huge Parking Opportunity (2019 with Laurence Wilse-Samson) - We show how much space SF wastes on car parking and what you could do with it.
Micromobility Doesn’t Have to be Disposable (2019) - After adding locks to our stand-on scooters, they stop getting stolen and trashed, a revelation to the industry.
New Delhi Will Leapfrog New York in Mobility (2018) - After visiting Delhi for Scoot, realizing that the future of e-mobility is in the global south.
What we learned from our first month of operating Scoot Kicks (2018) - After winning the San Francisco scooter permit, we reveal just how many scooters are getting stolen.
Shared Electric Vehicles are the Subways of the 21st Century (2018) - On Network Age transportation systems vs. Industrial Revolution transportation systems.
Shared Scooters, From the People Who Invented Shared Scooters (2018) - Scoot introduces stand-on e-scooters to our popular e-motorscooter and e-bike fleets.
The Snuggle (2017) - A riff on The Hard Thing About Hard Things after the birth of my son.
In the Cities of the Future, the People Will Drive Themselves (2016) - Why self-driving cars won’t take over cities. Not a popular opinion in Silicon Valley, but not yet wrong.
Why Apple Won’t Make a Car (2015) - Why whatever Apple is working on won’t be a car in the conventional sense. Still have my fingers crossed.
Conspicuous, but not Consuming (2009, with Stephen Linaweaver and Brad Bate) - We wonder if consumption of virtual goods could offset material consumption. Pre-NFTs :).
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