Rent an e-scooter: Why nothing works at night

Rent an e-scooter - charging is usually done at night

If you want to rent an e-scooter, you will surely also want the device to be charged.

So that this is the case, e-scooters are in many cases collected by their providers in the evening and fed with electricity overnight.
Mini-jobbers take care of the collecting and loading. Depending on the provider, these are called Juicer, Charger, Scooter Ranger or Hunter.
At Tier, the times when you can rent an e-scooter vary from city to city. The e-scooter comes to a standstill and switches off automatically no later than 10 minutes after the end of the rental period. Here are the rental times for animal scooters in the individual cities:
In Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Munich, animal scooters are now available around the clock, i.e. every day from midnight to midnight.
Frankfurt and Münster: Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 7 a.m. to midnight, Saturday 9 a.m. to midnight, Sunday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen: Sundays to Thursdays 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 9 a.m. to midnight.

Lime's green scooters travel in more than 30 European cities.

In Germany you can rent lime scooters in Frankfurt and Berlin as well as in Cologne and Hamburg.
Apparently Lime has no fixed loading times. The Juicers, as the collectors are called here, collect the vehicles as soon as a low charge is reported to you via the app.
There are no firm plans for when the juicers have to collect the devices.

The provider Bird is also represented in Germany.

The pilot project of the US provider started in Bamberg.
All e-scooters will be picked up by the chargers at 9 p.m.
The vehicles are loaded overnight. The next morning at 7 a.m., the e-scooters are ready for use again.

If you not only want to rent the vehicles but also have your own e-scooter, you will find an overview of cheap insurance in our next article.