Some e-scooter riders need to be tamed As the Maltese have given up on cycling as too hot or too steep, technology has produced a new fold-up transport mode ideal for storing in rental apartments where bicycles can’t be kept. Let’s face it, turning each and every one of those scoots into cars instead ‒ cars that would need even more space to park ‒ doesn’t bear thinking about. Nor do the fossil fuel emissions fines to the EU, that all drivers would then have to pay for, if we did that. Love them or hate them, e-scooters are here to stay.