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Uber Partners With Lime on Electric Scooter Rentals

The partnership means you'll be able to rent Lime electric scooters from the Uber app. Uber will also invest in Lime as part of a new $335 million funding round that also includes Alphabet.

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Electric scooters are coming to Uber.

On Monday, the company struck a partnership with electric scooter provider Lime to offer their vehicles over the Uber app.

Lime already has its own mobile app, where you can rent scooters for $0.15 per minute after paying a $1 unlocking fee. But the partnership with Uber will no doubt give Lime some added exposure, as it goes up against a whole host of rivals.

When the scooters will be available for rent via the Uber app wasn't made clear in Monday's announcement. But in the meantime, Lime said it plans on co-branding its scooters with the Uber name.

Lime today also announced a new $335 million funding round, which includes investment from Uber and Alphabet, among others. "Our investment and partnership in Lime is another step towards our vision of becoming a one stop shop for all your transportation needs," Uber vice president Rachel Holt said in a statement.

Lime said it plans on using the $335 million in funding to help the company expand globally and develop new products for consumers. Founded only a year ago, Lime already operates in 70 markets across the US and Europe. It also rents out bikes.

The move comes as Uber has been trying to get in on the electric scooter craze in San Francisco. Last month, it joined 11 companies, including Lime, jockeying for five city permits to operate electric scooter sharing services.

In addition to scooters, Uber has been expanding into electric bikes. In April, it acquired a bicycle-sharing startup called Jump. In San Francisco, you can now rent these bikes at a rate of $2 for 30 minutes.

Rival Lyft, which also wants one of those scooter permits, recently bought Motivate, which operates a number of bike share services around the country, including New York City's CitiBike and Ford GoBike in the Bay Area.

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I've been a journalist for over 15 years. I got my start as a schools and cities reporter in Kansas City and joined PCMag in 2017, where I cover satellite internet services, cybersecurity, PC hardware, and more. I'm currently based in San Francisco, but previously spent over five years in China, covering the country's technology sector.

Since 2020, I've covered the launch and explosive growth of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, writing 600+ stories on availability and feature launches, but also the regulatory battles over the expansion of satellite constellations, fights with rival providers like AST SpaceMobile and Amazon, and the effort to expand into satellite-based mobile service. I've combed through FCC filings for the latest news and driven to remote corners of California to test Starlink's cellular service.

I also cover cyber threats, from ransomware gangs to the emergence of AI-based malware. In 2024 and 2025, the FTC forced Avast to pay consumers $16.5 million for secretly harvesting and selling their personal information to third-party clients, as revealed in my joint investigation with Motherboard.

I also cover the PC graphics card market. Pandemic-era shortages led me to camp out in front of a Best Buy to get an RTX 3000. I'm now following how the AI-driven memory shortage is impacting the entire consumer electronics market. I'm always eager to learn more, so please jump in the comments with feedback and send me tips.

The Best Tech I've Had:

  • My first video game console: a Nintendo Famicom
  • I loved my Sega Saturn despite PlayStation's popularity.
  • The iPod Video I received as a gift in college
  • Xbox 360 FTW
  • The Galaxy Nexus was the first smartphone I was proud to own.
  • The PC desktop I built in 2013, which still works to this day.

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