Lime bisikletlerindeki küresel yükseliş İngiltere’de karı ikiye katladı

Kısaca

Lime’in yıllık satışları 148 milyon sterlin oldu; kâr 4,7 milyon sterlin; kullanıcılar 700.000’e yaklaştı. Şirket, Oxford, Nottingham gibi yeni şehirlerle büyümeyi sürdürdü; toplam araç sayısı 38.000’e yaklaştı. İngiltere’de lisanslama ve park etme gibi konularda yerel yetkililerin regülasyon yetkileri güçlendi.

Ana mesele

Lime’in Birleşik Krallık’taki operasyonları, kullanıcı sayısı ve karlılıkta belirgin artış gösterdi.

Ne değişti?

Kullanıcı tabanı 31 yüzde büyüyerek yaklaşık 700.000 aylık kullanıcıya ulaştı; yıllık satış 2025’te 148 milyon sterlin oldu.

Beni nasıl etkiler?

Okuyucuya, paydaşlar için yeni yatırım ve regülasyon görünümünü işaret eden somut göstergeler sunar.

Ne oldu?

Lime Europe UK kolu yıllık raporunda satış ve kâr artışını bildirdi; kullanıcılar 700.000’e yaklaştı.

Neden şimdi?

Pazar genişlemesi ve yeni şehirler, esnek iş gücü kullanımıyla maliyetleri dengeledi.

Neden önemli?

Yatırımcı güveni ve şehir ölçeklenebilirliğinde artış için olumlu göstergeler.

Kimler etkileniyor?

• Yatırımcılar
• Kullanıcılar
• Yerel yönetimler
• Çalışanlar (sözleşmeli/serbest)

Sektör ve piyasa etkisi

Ulaşım teknolojileri ve paylaşımlı mobilite alanında büyüme sinyalleri güçlendi.

Riskler

• Regülasyon baskısı artabilir
• Rekabet yoğunlaşabilir
• Operasyonel yoğunluk nedeniyle iş gücü maliyetleri dalgalanabilir

Takip edilmesi gerekenler

• Yeni şehirlerde genişleme hızının nasıl değiştiği
• Regülasyon değişikliklerinin uygulanabilirliği
• Kullanıcı girişimlerinde kalite ve güvenlik geliştirmeleri

Haberin tamamı

Dockless ebike schemes have fuelled a surge in cycling in London. Photograph: Alex MacNaughton/Alamy View image in fullscreen Dockless ebike schemes have fuelled a surge in cycling in London. Photograph: Alex MacNaughton/Alamy Ebikes Lime bike profits double as rider numbers surge in England US-owned firm says average monthly users at UK arm surged to nearly 700,000 with sales up by a third

Prefer the Guardian on Google Love them or hate them, Lime ebikes are an increasingly common sight on England’s roads with new figures showing annual profits more than doubling thanks to a surge in riders.

Lime’s average number of monthly users jumped 31% to approaching 700,000 as it added more than 4,500 ebikes and scooters to its fleet, taking the total to almost 38,000, the company’s UK arm, Lime Technologies, said in accounts filed at Companies House.

Read more Sales rose by a third to £148m in 2025 and profits more than doubled to £4.7m from £1.7m, as first reported by the Sunday Times. The progress followed expansion into new cities, including Oxford in 2024 and Nottingham in 2023, adding to its presence in London , Milton Keynes and Salford.

Despite the surge in trade, Lime’s UK accounts show it employed just 54 people in 2025, up from 39 a year before, largely because it relies on self-employed contractors to shift and service its ebikes and scooters.

The company, whose parent, Neutron Holdings, listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange last year valued at $1.7bn (£1.3bn), is part-owned by US ride-hailing app Uber . Lime was founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California, and now operates in about 230 cities across 29 countries, mostly in Europe.

At the time of the listing, Wayne Ting, the chief executive of Lime, said the company was having “conversations with lots of other [UK] municipalities”.

View image in fullscreen Lime bikes have become almost ubiquitous in London. Photograph: Melanie Major/Alamy The English devolution bill, passed in April, gives local authorities in England fresh powers to license rental ebike operators and set requirements around parking, safety and accessibility standards.

London’s transport body estimated in 2024 that one in 10 of the 1.5m daily cycle journeys in the capital are made on dockless ebikes such as Lime, Forest and Voi.

The schemes have fuelled a surge in cycling in London, helped by the patronage of celebrities such as Timothée Chalamet and most recently Kim Kardashian.

However, there have been mounting concerns about safety for riders and pedestrians . Rented bikes were reportedly responsible for almost a third of cyclist collisions with pedestrians that required police intervention.

Meanwhile, riders have been injured by defective bikes while cycling or suffered fractures caused by the weight of the bicycle falling on them, a phenomenon known as “Lime bike leg” .

Lime recently began introducing on the UK a new, smaller version of its electric bikes, with batteries repositioned towards the back wheel,after safety criticism. More than 1,500 of the new models are now in operation in England.

The company has said that more than 99.99% of Lime trips in London last year ended without a reported incident.

Charities representing blind residents and people with limited mobility have also raised concerns about the difficulty in navigating parts of London amid chaotic parking of rental bikes on pavements.

London boroughs have seized at least 3,000 ebikes this year , 2,000 of which were Lime bikes, a Guardian investigation found, as hire companies face growing calls to stop bicycles littering streets and blocking pavements.

Kaynaklar

• The Guardian - World