Rented e-scooters cleared from Paris streets on eve of ban

Electric scooter rental experiment in French capital ends after 5 years of controversy

Paris will become the first European capital to ban rented electric scooters on Friday, as the city hall vowed to calm down" the streets.

Five years after Paris became the first city in Europe to open up to the free-floating" shared e-scooter market in 2018, the last of the city's 15,000 e-scooters were loaded into vans on Thursday afternoon, marking the end of an era.