Our distinctive orange e-scooters are coming to Busselton, as part of a 12-month trial in partnership with Busselton City Council. Set to launch on Thursday 15 December the city’s first e-scooter program will see up to 250 e-scooters gradually rolled out across the city centre and surrounding suburbs including Geographe, West Busselton, Brodwater and Abbey. The riding area will also extend along the Dunsborough Coastal Path and into Dunsborough City Centre.

We’re thrilled to be selected as the exclusive operator, after a strong track record of partnering with councils and proven leadership in the safety and innovation space. The recent announcement makes Busselton the second city in Western Australia to benefit from our industry leading e-scooters, after launching in the City of Stirling earlier this year (February 2022). Elsewhere in Australia, our e-scooter programmes are helping to reduce car use and congestion, improve air quality, as well as boost the local economy. The programme is set to create approximately 20 jobs in Busselton recruited locally, and increase economic activity with our national report, Shared Rides, Shared Wealth, finding two in three e-scooter journeys result in a purchase with a local business. 

Safety remains at the heart of everything we do. Riders in Wollongong will benefit from visibly larger 12” wheels, wider footplates and an app-controlled Helmet Lock and Geofencing technology to control where e-scooters are ridden and parked, and how fast they can travel in certain areas. Other features include a topple detection, a 000 emergency button; voice guidance and a Follow My Ride feature.

Riders will be able to unlock and use the e-scooters through Neuron’s user-friendly app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

We are thrilled to be expanding our service area in Canberra in time for Christmas. From today (Friday, 9 December), 132 square kilometres will be open to Neuron riders with Tuggeranong and Weston Creek joining the riding area and connecting people to the existing zones across Central Canberra, Belconnen, Gungahlin and Woden. With shared e-scooters now available across the entirety of our city, Canberrans can travel north to south and east to west using a range of shared paths and connecting links.

We are excited to extend the range of travel for riders in the city, while increasing the community’s access to safe, alternative and sustainable first and last mile transport options The expansion is set to be welcomed by local business within the new riding area after our recent national report, titled Shared Rides, Shared Wealth, revealed that two in three e-scooter journeys result in a purchase with a local business across Australia, with riders spending an average of $65 at local businesses per trip. 

Riders are encouraged to visit our industry-first, interactive online riding school ScootSafe Academy, developed in consultation with the Australian Road Safety Foundation which provides riders with city-specific e-scooter training materials and incentivised quizzes.

Brisbane’s shared micromobility programme with Neuron e-scooters and e-bikes will be rolled out in two new trial areas across across Greenslopes and Holland Park West, and Bulimba and Hawthorne. The expansion is set to support Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government’s ‘first and last mile’ trial, making it easier than ever before for Brisbanites to choose micromobility for their journey and connect to other modes of transport such as busway stations or ferry terminals.

Since launching on the streets of Brisbane in August 2019, Neuron riders have travelled more than eight million kilometres in the city. The expansion is set to be welcomed by businesses within the new riding area, with a recent rider survey finding that 66% of Neuron rides result in a purchase at a local business, boosting the local economy. The service expansion will also create 15 new locally sourced jobs.

Neuron e-scooters are fitted with a range of cutting-edge safety features. These include an app-controlled helmet lock that secures a safety helmet to the e-scooter between trips; and a topple detection feature that can detect if an e-scooter has been left on its side which then alerts an operations team to reposition it safely. Other innovations include a 000 emergency button which can tell if someone has had a fall and helps the rider call the emergency services, Voice guidance to educate and warn riders of how to ride safely, and a ‘Follow My Ride’ function that allows riders to share their trip with friends and family in real time, for added safety and peace of mind.

Our e-scooters and e-bikes have cemented themselves as an important and popular part of the transport mix and we look forward to being able to reach more people in the suburbs.