“I would say the general public is quite tired of the e-scooters lying around,” said Daniel Mohlin, Nordics Regional Manager for Inurba Mobility, the company that won the seven-year contract for the new bikeshare program.“The most common comment has been, finally, there’s something to replace the e-scooters.” The new service, Stockholm eBikes, started relatively small, with just over a thousand bikes this past summer, but will grow to more than 5,000 for this coming summer.That means the cost of just 93 minutes of e-bike riding in New York—not even including the monthly membership fee or one-day pass—is the same as an entire year of unlimited 90-minute rides on Stockholm’s system.London’s Santander e-bikes are only available to members, who pay 20 Pounds (about $22.50 at current exchange rates) per month plus one Pound for each e-bike ride up to 60 minutes.The obvious assumption would be that, unlike most every bikeshare system in the world which is expected to break even without public subsidies in contrast to traditional public transportation like buses and subways, the government is helping to foot the bill of Stockholm eBikes."