Philip O'Connor

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The Pat Kenny Show · E-Scooters: What have other European countries done about them? · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

I think they're just too bulky, and they also don't want people riding them in stations, in train stations and bus stations.

So basically nothing.

I mean, as long as you're over 15, you don't need a helmet, you don't need anything.

Indeed you do.

Yeah, you need to have, the recommendation is that you wear a reflective vest.

You have to have lights forward and backward facing.

You have to have brakes.

You have to have

a bell or some sort of sound that you can give to warn other people that you're coming.

There's also a limitation on the amount of power that the battery can produce.

So the limit on that in Sweden is 250 Watts.

That's the absolute maximum.

And the reason for that then is because they don't want people trimming their electric scooters to go faster than the allowed 20 kilometers an hour.

And I heard you speaking to Elaine there about the situation in Paris.

And geo blocking and that, and it's absolutely fascinating how that works in Stockholm because there's sort of two areas where you can't, uh, park an electric scooter that's hired from a private operator.

One is around the Royal palace.

So the King doesn't want us parking our electric scooters there and also around the waterfront.

So all the keys in Sweden, Stockholm is basically built on an archipelago.

You can't stop or park anywhere along there because it basically makes everything look very ugly.

And the other thing is that in the sort of central, uh, areas of town where I'll be headed now this afternoon.

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