75 Systems, 87% Docked: How Latin America's Micromobility Rode Out the Scooter Exit[MICROMOBILITY PRO] After Lime’s exit, Latin America’s micromobility took a different road, docked bikes grew, and Tembici is now putting tens of thousands of e-bikes into delivery riders’ hands.
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On January 9, 2020, Lime told the world it was pulling out of 12 markets. Seven of them were in Latin America: Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Lima, Puerto Vallarta, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In a post on the company’s blog, chief executive Brad Bao described them as places where micromobility had “evolved more slowly.” Lime’s scooters left those cities. The docked bikes didn’t. In Brazil, Argentina and Chile, a Brazil based company called Tembici was running bike share systems of the docked kind, where you take a bike from a station and return it to another. Those systems kept running through 2020 and the pandemic that followed. By late 2021, Tembici was running 72% of all the shared bikes in those three countries. In June 2026, Brazil’s national development bank approved R$340m for the same company to buy up to 85k new electric bikes, to rent to app delivery couriers. How did a docked, sponsor funded commuter system come through the years the scooter companies left? And why is its next chapter about delivery riders? The Year the Scooters LeftTembici’s own regional study, which counted systems in operation as of late 2021, found 75 bike share systems across 13 Latin American countries, with about 45.5k shared bikes between them. Brazil had 25 of those systems, Colombia 15, Mexico 13 and Argentina 10. And 87% of the region’s shared bikes were docked, not dockless.
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