Electric scooters, built for Erbil.

Scoteri is a shared electric scooter service designed around the city, launching first in Erbil, Kurdistan Region.

ErbilStylised map, illustrative
PPPPCITADEL60 METRE ROAD100 METRE ROADSLOW ZONE
Parked where parking is allowed

A ride, from the first tap to the last.

Ten moments, and the app handles every one of them. Scroll through a Scoteri ride as a rider will see it.

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Find a scooter nearby

Open the map to see the scooters around you, with the places you can ride and park drawn on the same map.

Scan the code to unlock

Point your camera at the QR code on the handlebar. If it will not scan, type the short number printed under it.

The scooter confirms, then you go

Scoteri sends the unlock and waits for the scooter to confirm it. Your ride timer starts only once it has.

The zones ride with you

Time and distance update as you go. Slow and no-ride areas are applied on the scooter itself, not left to a warning.

Finish where parking is allowed

End the ride in a place you can park. Inside a no-parking area the ride stays open until you move the scooter.

Take a parking photo

Photograph the parked scooter, upright and out of the way, so there is a record of how it was left.

The team checks your parking

Your photo goes to the Scoteri operations team, who confirm the scooter was parked properly.

Ride confirmed

Once the parking is approved the ride closes, and the scooter is ready for the next person.

The fare comes off your balance

The cost of the ride is deducted from your in-app balance, and every ride is listed in your wallet.

Add balance with your card

Top up securely from the app: choose an amount, confirm with your card, and your balance updates.

Illustrative app screens. Amounts and times are examples.

Built to respect the city.

Scooters only work in a city that stays orderly. Scoteri draws the rules onto the map and enforces them on the vehicle.

Illustrative district. Real zones are drawn with each city before launch.

A lower top speed, applied to the scooter

For the rider
The scooter simply will not go faster while you are inside the area. There is nothing to press and nothing to acknowledge.
For the city
Set a slower limit on a promenade, a market street or a school approach. It is applied to the vehicle, so it holds whether or not the app is open.

Enforced by the Scoteri platform today.

Four shared electric scooters parked upright inside a marked parking bay, leaving the pavement clear.

Parked properly, every time.

Badly parked scooters are why cities lose patience with them. So parking on Scoteri is a rule the system checks, not a request.

  1. Rides do not end in no-parking areasThe app shows where the ride can finish instead.
  2. Every ride ends with a photoThe rider photographs the scooter where they left it.
  3. A person reviews itThe operations team approves the parking before the ride closes.

The technology behind every ride.

Built in-house and tested on real scooters: the vehicle link, the zone engine and the back office a city operation runs on.

Every scooter, connected

Each vehicle keeps a live link to Scoteri. Its position and state are always known, so a scooter can be found, locked or taken out of service from the back office.

Fleet viewIllustrative
  • Scooter AIn ride
  • Scooter BParked
  • Scooter CFault reported
  • Scooter DOut of service
  • Scooter EParked

Unlocked only when the scooter confirms

A ride starts with a command to the vehicle, and the clock only runs once the scooter replies.

Ride startIllustrative
  1. Unlock sent to the scooter09:41:02
  2. Scooter confirms it is unlocked09:41:03
  3. Ride timer starts00:00:00

Lights on after dark, automatically

Headlights switch on for night riding without the rider doing anything. Deployed and confirmed on real hardware.

DaylightLights off
After darkLights on

An operations back office, already built

Running scooters well is mostly operations. The software the team runs a city on exists today.

  • Fleet register
  • Zone editor
  • Ride oversight
  • Parking photo review
  • Wallet and ledger
  • Rider verification
  • Fault reports
  • Support
  • Audit log
A rider on a shared electric scooter in a city street in late-afternoon light, with traffic alongside.
Launching

Erbil is where we start.

A city of ring roads and short trips between districts, with no shared scooters yet. Scoteri is preparing its first launch here.

Help shape how Iraq’s cities move.

Scoteri is preparing for its first city and speaking with investors and strategic partners who want to be part of it.