Module 1

Plan Your Fleet Business

Before you buy a single vehicle, get honest about the economics. This module covers real unit economics, the franchise-vs-independent decision, which vehicle type fits your market, and the permits and insurance you will actually need.

9 lessons91 min total

What you will get out of this module

By the end you will have a defensible revenue model for your market and a clear go / no-go decision.

  1. 1

    How to Choose Your First Market

    Article

    A repeatable seven-factor scorecard for picking your first scooter or e-bike rental market, with a concrete weighting framework and a worked side-by-side example.

    11 min

  2. 2

    The Shared-Mobility Business Models, Compared

    Article

    A side-by-side comparison of the four shared-mobility business models (public permit sharing, private B2B closed fleets, franchise, and hybrid) across capital, control, margin, and speed, with a framework to pick one.

    11 min

  3. 3

    Breakeven Utilization Worksheet

    Worksheet

    A fill-in worksheet to compute the rides per vehicle per day each vehicle needs to cover its daily cost stack, with a worked scooter example and blank inputs for your own market.

    8 min

  4. 4

    Revenue Per Vehicle Per Day: The Number That Decides Everything

    Article

    A deep dive on revenue per vehicle per day (RPVD): how to calculate it, healthy ranges by market and season, the placement, pricing, and uptime levers that move it, and how to weigh it against your daily cost per vehicle.

    9 min

  5. 5

    Fleet Cost Structure: Capex vs Opex

    Article

    A numbers-first breakdown of what a shared scooter fleet actually costs: the upfront capex you buy once, the opex that recurs every month, and the per-ride math that ties them together.

    11 min

  6. 6

    How to Finance Your Fleet

    Article

    The realistic ways to fund a shared-mobility fleet, self-funding, bank and SBA loans, equipment leasing, revenue-based financing, and angels or VC, plus how a $0-upfront revenue-share model shrinks the check you actually have to write.

    10 min

  7. 7

    Unit Economics by Vehicle Type

    Article

    How purchase cost, revenue per ride, utilization, useful life, and maintenance stack up across scooters, e-bikes, mopeds, and golf carts, plus how Levy's revenue-share model changes the math.

    11 min

  8. 8

    Build Your Fleet Financial Model (Pro Forma)

    Worksheet

    A step-by-step pro forma template for a shared micromobility fleet: revenue drivers, cost lines, ramp assumptions, and a 12-month projection you build yourself, then validate in the Estimator.

    11 min

  9. 9

    The Fleet KPIs That Actually Matter

    Article

    The four numbers that tell you whether a shared-mobility fleet is healthy: utilization, rides per vehicle per day, revenue per vehicle per day, and breakeven.

    9 min

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