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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nScope note.<\/strong> NABSA data covers shared systems that are overwhelmingly two-wheel bikes and standing scooters. Three-wheel and cargo formats are effectively absent from it. We read the data as a demand signal for the US micromobility category as a whole \u2014 not as a like-for-like size of the cargo or trike segment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The move from 31% growth to 5% is the most important line in the report. It marks the end of the land-grab phase for shared bikes and scooters in committed cities. The number of cities running a system actually fell by about 3% while trips rose \u2014 demand is consolidating into fewer, deeper markets rather than spreading to new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a buyer, consolidation reduces risk: durable US demand is concentrating where infrastructure and policy already support it, which makes retail and fleet investment more predictable. But it also means the next unit of growth will not come from adding more shared scooters. It comes from formats and jobs the shared fleets do not cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With roughly two in three shared trips on electric devices, and average distance rising while trip time falls, the data shows electrification doing a specific thing: extending the practical range of a short trip. Riders go further because the assist makes further feel close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That trend runs directly through the utility case \u2014 carrying more, over a longer distance, without a car. It is the ground occupied by two-wheel cargo bikes<\/a> and city e-bikes, and it is why an electric range now reads as a default rather than a bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite wide scooter availability, the modal split has held near 62% bikes to 38% scooters for two years. For a manufacturer of bikes and trikes, this is the quiet but decisive line: once a trip is more than a quick hop, the bicycle wins. Cargo bikes and trikes extend the bicycle’s advantages \u2014 stability, seated comfort, load capacity \u2014 rather than the scooter’s. The format riders already prefer is the one the utility segment builds on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shared fleets do not carry a week’s groceries, run a boxed delivery round, do the school run, or serve a rider who needs stability and easy step-through access. Those jobs sit outside rental micromobility entirely \u2014 in owned vehicles, retail sales and managed fleets. The absence of these use cases from the report is not a gap in demand. It is a map of where a different set of formats operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated into an assortment, the 2025 signal splits cleanly by format and job:<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe read, in five lines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA flattening curve changes where the opportunity sits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Electric assist is now the expectation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
US riders keep choosing the bicycle form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhat the shared data does not measure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Reading the data into a US range<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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