Lime electric scooters arrive in Lisbon as an alternative means of transportation

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To Lusa, Marco Pau, director general of Lime Portugal, explained that it is a fourth European capital, after Paris, Madrid and Berlin, where it launched a system of electric scooters, still with no defined date.

To use an electric scooters just download to the user a Lime application. Then it's an electric scooters to be able to unlock.

There are already 90 spots in the city, but they can be "prepared" so that they do not appear in any "station", although the waves can be on a defined geographical basis.

The electric scooters is unlocked through a code with an application and after the trip, the use of taking a photo to the place where one lets park in order to finish the course.

"The drinks of European and North American cities. In addition, we know where they are located, they are always monitored, and at night they are transported to be recharged," he explained to Lusa, adding that between 9:00 pm and 9:00 am the next day there will be no scooters on the street.

The battery of an electric scooters has autonomy for 40 kilometers and the seconds cannot be wide the 25 kilometers/hour. Still, it's a way "to move fast at small distances," Marco Pau said.

According to Marco Pau, at the time of the launch of the electric scooters will also appear the program 'juicer', with about 100 people have the number of scooters, load them and make them new on the street, a change of a payment by the company.