EV drivers begin paying London’s Congestion Charge for the first time from today. Read more: zagdaily.com/places/ev-dr...

Cycling hits new high in Belgium’s Flanders region with 40,000 more bike trips recorded every day since 2022. Read more: zagdaily.com/places/fland...

Zag Daily’s 2025 Wrapped 🎄 Mobility shifted gears in 2025 and Zag was there for every turn. From our most-read story to some of our favourite interviews, this is a look back at the moments that shaped our year Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/zag...

With no Transport for London services running on Christmas Day, Londoners are set to rely once again on shared e-bikes to get around the capital, according to new data from micromobility operator Lime. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/londo...

Mobility didn’t slow in 2025 - regulation failed to keep pace. Insurance expert Brandon Schuh argues that patchy policy has pushed insurers into a role they were never meant to play: deciding which mobility models survive and which are forced to exit. Read more: zagdaily.com/opinion/mobi...

Cooltra's first Sustainability Report finds 88% of emissions come from five sources, setting out a targeted roadmap towards carbon neutrality by 2030. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/coolt...

Shared micromobility steers UK modal shift, finds Beryl, with more than 60% of riders replacing a car, van or taxi journey with a Beryl vehicle. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/share...

EU battery repair laws are coming. This Dutch facility is getting ahead. As the micromobility industry scrambles to get compliant, Zag goes inside Nowos’ Amersfoort repair centre where Europe’s circular revolution is already underway. Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/eu-...

Vertical Aerospace has completed its final full-scale eVTOL prototype, set to double the company’s flight test capacity ahead of piloted testing and public demonstrations in 2026. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/vert...

FIA announces the winner of its Smart Driving Challenge who cut the climate impact of driving by 29%. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/winne...

Baidu joins London’s robotaxi push with Uber and Lyft partnerships to roll out next year. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/ba...

In today’s newsletter, we look at Forest’s innovative partnership with the UK’s largest energy supplier. Plus, PopWheels’ answer to NYC’s e-bike battery fires and a deep-dive into EIT Urban Mobility’s latest impact report. Subscribe here: zagdaily.com/zag-weekly/

Bird e-bikes are now available in the Lyft app in Nashville, Cleveland and Denver. Early reports show a 50% spike in Bird rides in Denver. Read More: zagdaily.com/trends/bird-...

Estonian electric cargo-bike maker Vok Bikes is shifting production to Renault Group’s ‘Refactory’ plant in Flins, France, in a move it says will increase supply to the UK. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/vok-b...

Danish bike-share company Donkey Republic has secured a major tender in the Ruhr region of Germany to supply more than 5000 bikes over the next five years. Read More: zagdaily.com/trends/donke...

Exclusive: Mobility startup PopWheels has secured $4.7 million in funding for its micromobility battery-swapping infrastructure to snuff out the battery fires plaguing New York City and beyond. Read more: zagdaily.com/places/exclu...

Cowboy has formally closed its long-anticipated deal with ReBirth Group Holding, completing a majority investment and financial restructuring aimed at stabilising the business after two turbulent years and restarting stalled production. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/cowbo...

Boeing-owned Wisk has completed the first flight of its Generation 6 eVTOL, which it says is the first aircraft put forward for certification as an autonomous passenger aircraft in the United States. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/wisk...

Comodule partners with technology company 1oT to provide borderless eSIM technology to e-bike fleets around the world. Operators can now switch providers based on speed, price, and location with no physical SIM swaps, saving time and money. Read More: zagdaily.com/connected/co...

As EIT Urban Mobility closes out 2025, its latest impact report points to a maturing investment portfolio, a growing emphasis on follow-on funding, and a more deliberate approach to measuring real-world effects. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/eit-u...

The independent Active Travel Board for Wales is urging faster action on inclusivity and barrier removal, warning that progress towards an accessible walking, wheeling and cycling network is stalling without dedicated funding and clearer delivery. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/wales...

US eVTOL developer Archer is setting up an engineering base in South West England as part of a widening defence-focused collaboration with Anduril UK and GKN Aerospace. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/arch...

Vessev is set to make waves on Lake Taupō with New Zealand’s first freshwater electric hydrofoil tourism experience Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/vess...

Wind turbine inspections show how drones work at scale. Zag sat down with Perceptual Robotics to discuss how autonomous drones and inspection data are reshaping wind turbine maintenance and what regulation means for scaling operations across wind portfolios Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/wind...

Riders would pay more if bikes linked better with public transport. New data from @nextbike.de's 2025 survey shows integration - not competition - is where micromobility’s business case truly lies. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/nextb...

Volkswagen has begun testing its Gen.Urban autonomous research vehicle in real urban traffic in Germany, focusing on how passengers experience, interact with and trust self-driving technology. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/vo...

Donut Lab and Watt EV are combining in-wheel motors and a lightweight aluminium platform to produce multiple vehicle types on one EV architecture. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/do...

Forest taps into 1M Octopus Energy customers. Forest has partnered with Octopus Energy in a deal that will power 20,000 Forest e-bikes across London. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/fores...

Six-month findings: Bolt and ETH Zurich’s shared mobility research Lab in Seville Following last week’s report from Hannover, the Sustainable Urban Transitions (SUT) Lab is dropping the first results from its ambitious year-long research project. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/bolts...

In today’s newsletter, we step inside Valo, the electric aircraft set to shape the UK’s first air-taxi network. Plus, London readies for in-dock e-bike charging and BusCaro exposes the harsh realities of Pakistan’s transport system. Subscribe here: zagdaily.com/zag-weekly/

Zag Daily dissects the key takeaways from a panel at #CoMotionGLOBAL2025 in Riyadh exploring how AI, real-time routing, and autonomous vehicles are making Demand Responsive Transit more reliable, affordable, equitable and efficient Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/co...

‘Make the entire city a station front’: Luup CEO Daiki Okai tells Zag Daily how Japan’s biggest shared micromobility operator is redrawing the urban mobility map by threading every neighbourhood back into the network. Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/mak...

Councils across England are set to get a £626 million boost to promote active travel. The government hopes to boost walking, wheeling and cycling, with the funds estimated to deliver up to 500 miles of pathways & 170,000 daily trips. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/626m-...

Zag Daily was on site in Canary Wharf, London for the unveiling of Vertical Aerospace’s Valo, the full-scale commercial eVTOL designed to advance the company from prototype testing to a certifiable, UK-led electric flight programme. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/insi...

Transport for London has renewed its Serco contract to deliver the biggest upgrade to Santander Cycles in a decade, introducing the UK’s first in-dock e-bike charging system alongside a modernised, easier-to-use service. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/tfl-r...

The UN launches the first ever Decade of Sustainable Transport. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/un-la...

InDrive and AI Driver sign an MoU to begin preparing an autonomous ride-hailing pilot in Riyadh. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/in...

California-based Alef Aeronautics begins manufacturing its first flying car. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/alef...

In #40 of Zag’s Women Making Moves series, BusCaro Founder Maha Shahzad exposes the harsh realities of Pakistan’s transport system and how her bus-hailing service is giving women the human right of safe access to education and employment. Read more: zagdaily.com/people/busca...

Bolt partners with Stellantis as the shared mobility giant works towards 100,000 driverless vehicles by 2035. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/connected/bo...

UK battery technology startup Anaphite raises £1.4 million to scale its dry electrode coating technology which aims to cut the cost and carbon footprint of lithium-ion battery manufacturing. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/anaph...

Two years after one of Turkey’s deadliest earthquakes, Hatay’s Metropolitan Municipality has partnered with shared e-bike operator Tripy to restore mobility in one of the nation’s hardest-hit cities and embed sustainability into the rebuilding efforts. Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/how...

Vertical Aerospace has named advanced materials group Syensqo as a long-term supplier for the VX4’s full structure, reinforcing a supply chain increasingly shaped by defence ambitions. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/vert...

Major AI mobility report to be unveiled at CoMotion Global. Zag examines MIT and Kearney’s landmark report set to launch today in Riyadh, revealing AI’s greatest promise for transport. #ZagConnected Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/exe...

In today’s newsletter, we dive into Bolt’s European shared mobility research project. Plus Veo puts accessibility front and centre with an upcoming seated e-trike and Segway shows how sustainability starts long before scooters hit the streets. Subscribe here: zagdaily.com/zag-weekly/

Voi’s 2025 Global User Survey finds that riders aged 45 and over have more than doubled since 2019. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/voi-f...

Istanbul ranks as the world’s most congested city, according to INRIX’s Global 2025 Traffic Scorecard. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/istan...

Cowboy reveals it’s close to finalising a deal that would give ReBirth Group a majority stake, though the e-bike maker has not confirmed whether this will become a full acquisition. Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/cowbo...

On Episode 12 of Zag Talk, Delivery Mates' COO Kevin Savage shares his vision for the future of UK logistics and sets out how the green delivery firm has matched sustainability with commercial viability. Read more: zagdaily.com/people/zag-t...

Archer Aviation announces plans for a South Florida air taxi network linking Miami and its neighbouring cities. #AAM #ZagAir Read more: zagdaily.com/zag-air/arch...