The Micromobility Podcast | Wim Ouboter, founder of Micro Scooter | Trailer
One man decided to solve a problem nobody was talking about, and it ended up changing how millions of people move around cities. In this episode of the Micromobility Podcast, Prabin Joel Jones sits down with Wim Ouboter, founder of Micro Scooter, who built his first scooter in the late nineties to cover a distance that was too far to walk and too short to drive. That simple idea scaled into a global phenomenon, sold across dozens of countries, with zero advertising. Wim also talks about hundreds of factories copying his product almost overnight and what that collapse taught him about building for the long run. He then gets into the Microlino, why a microcar can cover the vast majority of your daily trips, and what cities actually need to do to make that shift happen. Stay tuned, this one is worth it.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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