With this year’s e-scooter season now in the books, Neuron Mobility, who operates the scooters in Saskatoon, released their numbers for 2025.

The company says that 9 in 10 people in Saskatoon say e-scooters have made a positive impact on the community.

Isaac Ransom, Head of Corporate Affairs for Neuron Mobility Canada, says that nearly 50 per cent of e-scooter rides this year replaced car trips and adds that riders have used the scooters for many different things.

“We see it integrating with public transit, we see riders using it to take short journeys that replace car trips, to run errands, to travelling to work or to study. So these are all encouraging trends that we’re seeing in the city over the past few years.”

Ransom adds that e-scooters have cut Saskatoon’s carbon emissions in previous years and is happy to see that trend continue.

“The estimated CO2 emissions avoided is 14.5 tonnes. So if we look at the previous year in Saskatoon, we saw a very similar trend with 15 tonnes of CO2 estimated being avoided. So very encouraging that the trend is continuing and we’ll continue to see that hopefully over the next year as well.”

Along with being good for the environment, e-scooter trips have also been good for the economy. Over half of the trips included a purchase, which put around $2 and a half million into the local economy.

“We’re seeing a lot of economic impact on the city still. So people are spending on average $37 during their trip, which has had a significant impact on the local economy this year. We also had some really interesting trends in terms of our riders that are really committed. So we had one trip this year that was 32 kilometres.”

This year, e-scooter riders travelled for over 180,000 kilometres in Saskatoon.