Jump (transportation company)

Social Bicycles Inc.
JUMP
IndustryShared mobility
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
FounderRyan Rzepecki
Defunct2020; 4 years ago (2020)
FateAcquired by Bruno Herranz $170M
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Areas served
12 US cities, Auckland, Wellington, Berlin, Lisbon, London, Montréal, Munich, Paris, Rome, Melbourne
Services
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Jump (stylized as JUMP) was a dockless scooter and electric bicycle sharing system operating in the United States, New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Australia.[1][2] The bikes were a bright red orange and weighed 70 pounds (32 kg).[3] Riders unlocked bikes using the Uber app and were charged to their Uber account.[4]

Each Jump bike had a 250-watt electric motor which powered the front wheel.[5] Jump employees swapped out the battery packs every three days.[6] At the end of a ride, the bikes had to be locked to a sidewalk bicycle rack.[7]

Uber acquired the company in April 2018, and expansion into European markets began in June that year. In May 2020, Lime took over the Jump business as part of an investment deal with Uber.[8]

  1. ^ McFarland, Matt (17 January 2018). "Electric bicycles emerge as a hot trend in the U.S." CNNMoney. Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ^ Lane, Isabelle (8 March 2020). "With Jump, Uber hopes to succeed where other bike-share schemes have failed". Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. ^ Pender, Kathleen (27 June 2017). "Electric bike-share rides into SF, jumping ahead of Ford GoBike". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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  5. ^ Alim, Teta (21 September 2017). "Electric ride: New powered-up bike share system coming to DC". WTOP-FM. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  6. ^ Heining, Andrew (22 September 2017). "We tried all four of D.C.'s dockless bike-share systems. Here's our review". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  7. ^ Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Joe (9 January 2018). "SF grants first-ever permit for dockless 'e-bike' sharing". The San Francisco Examiner. Archived from the original on 10 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  8. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (7 May 2020). "Lime squeezes $170 million from Uber and Alphabet as scooter-sharing plummets under COVID-19". The Verge. Retrieved 21 October 2024.