Bird’s dockless, electric scooters are now available in Latin America. The startup announced Friday that its rolling into Mexico City, and will soon be launching in Brazil.
To start out, Bird will drop 100 scooters in Mexico City’s La Condesa, Nápoles, Polanco, and Reforma neighborhoods. But the scooters won’t be geofenced to those neighborhoods. Like it does in its other markets, Bird’s staff of independent contractors will collect all scooters each evening for charging and maintenance.
Bird hasn’t received explicit permission from Mexico City’s local government to operate scooters, but the city is home to other dockless scooter companies like Grin. “Bird operates in accordance with all of the laws and regulations on...
