New service lets you zip around Islamabad in eco-friendly style

An employee of the electric scooter-sharing service ezbike rides a new rental scooter during a demonstration. Pakistanis in the capital, Islamabad, can use the new rental service to get around. — Arne Immanuel Baensch/dpa

The Pakistani capital, Islamabad, has joined the growing number of cities around the world where commuters can get around in eco-friendly style with a new electric scooter-sharing service.

And if the start-up behind the service, called ezbike, has its way, its e-scooters will soon be coming to the other large metropolises of Karachi and Lahore. "Response has been beyond our expectations," Syed Mohammad Hadi, managing director of the start-up Roamer tells dpa.