E-scooters in Curitiba: JET and Whoosh, where to ride, where to park and the rules

Which e-scooter apps work in Curitiba?

Under the city’s Decree 450 of 2026, as Agora Paraná and Bem Paraná reported it, only firms accredited by Urbs (Urbanização de Curitiba S.A.), a city company, may rent out scooters, and Urbs sets their rules, monitors them and imposes sanctions. Its call for operators, published on 27 May 2026, runs for 60 months and stays open to new firms. By 25 October two were running:

• JET, with blue scooters, the first accredited. It started on 3 July 2026 with 1,000 scooters and 100 pick-up and drop-off points in the Centro, the Centro Cívico and Batel. In Brazil you rent them in the Go Jet app, with a phone number, an e-mail address and a card or Pix.
• Whoosh, with grey and yellow scooters, the second, accredited in September 2026. You sign up with a phone number, an e-mail address and a card or a Pix top-up; its terms say it may also ask for your CPF, Brazil’s taxpayer number.

On 24 September 2026, BandNews FM and Tribuna PR reported, Urbs let Whoosh put 1,000 scooters on the streets and JET 500 more, 2,500 in all, and widened the area from three bairros to 16: the Centro, Centro Cívico and Batel, plus Água Verde, Alto da Glória, Alto da XV, Bigorrilho, Campina do Siqueira, Cristo Rei, Jardim Botânico, Mercês, Prado Velho, Rebouças, São Francisco, Seminário and Vila Izabel, though not Parque Barigui.

New to shared e-scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter.

How much does electric scooter rental in Curitiba cost?

Each app shows the price before you start, and neither operator publishes a Curitiba rate on its website. JET says its rates vary by city, day of the week and demand, and it charges paused time like riding time. Whoosh shows each scooter’s start cost and price per minute before you start the ride, and adds accident insurance unless you switch it off. A Whoosh Pass (7 days, 30 days or a year) removes the unlock fee, not the per-minute price.

Go Jet’s terms (revised August 2026) make you liable for fines, seizures and removal costs, but set no amounts.

Where can you ride an e-scooter in Curitiba?

Two sets of rules apply to every e-scooter, rented or your own. Paraná’s state traffic council, CETRAN-PR, set guidelines for the state’s towns in Resolution 106 of 14 July 2026, in force since 20 July, under Brazil’s national rule, CONTRAN Resolution 996 of 2023. Curitiba’s Decree 1.520, signed on 17 September 2026, applies them in the city; the table follows the decree as Tribuna PR, Folha de Curitiba and HojePR reported it.

Ride against the traffic only on a cycle track signed for it. Both operators cap their scooters at 20 km/h, and Whoosh slows them to 9–15 km/h where its app marks a limit. Urbs’s call for operators also holds each new rider to 15 km/h for the first five rides or the first 30 minutes, whichever comes first, Agora Paraná reported at the launch.

The Rua XV de Novembro is for walking. Since 22 July 2026, Urbs told the Jornal Paraná, a shared scooter switches itself off if you ride into the street’s pedestrian section, the Passeio Público, the Praça Rui Barbosa or the Praça Osório.

Where to park a JET or Whoosh scooter

Urbs’s rules, as the press reported them at the launch, say a shared scooter goes back only to a point the operator’s app shows, and you take a photo of it standing there.

• Whoosh: end the ride at a “P” on its map. Whoosh aims to keep one within 200–300 metres, asks you to leave two metres clear, and charges R$40 for a ride ended anywhere else.
• JET: end the ride at one of the parking points in the Go Jet app, and send the photo it asks for.

Never leave a scooter on the pavement, a pedestrian crossing or a dropped kerb, or across a driveway. If you find one that blocks the way, report it on the city’s 156 line: Urbs passes complaints to the operator, which deals with them.

Age, helmets and the other rules

The city’s department for public safety and traffic, the Secretaria Municipal de Defesa Social e Trânsito (SMDT), enforces the decree with its traffic agents and the Guarda Municipal. In October 2026 the city told HojePR and Bem Paraná that the law gives it no basis to fine scooter riders in these cases, such as riding on the pavement, so its checks are educational. Under the decree, Folha de Curitiba reported, a scooter may be held or removed only where the conduct is also an offence under Brazil’s traffic code. Operators can still block your account.

On 22 October 2026 the SMDT held one of these checks at the corner of Rua Mariano Torres and Avenida Sete de Setembro, and planned another for the following week. Riders without a helmet are given one.

Where to find JET and Whoosh scooters in Curitiba

At 16:40 local time on Sunday 25 October 2026 the map of Curitiba showed about 1,700 standing scooters: 1,300 JET and 400 Whoosh. That is a snapshot, not the size of either fleet, and scooters on a ride don’t appear.

On the official bairro boundaries of IPPUC, the city’s planning institute, every scooter on the map a few minutes later stood inside Curitiba, in 22 of its 75 bairros. The three where the scheme began, the Centro (572), Batel (215) and the Centro Cívico (158), held more than half. Of the 13 added in September, Bigorrilho had the most (173), ahead of Rebouças (121), Água Verde (117), São Francisco (107) and Mercês (89). JET had most of the scooters from Batel to Bigorrilho and Mercês; Whoosh had most of its own in the Centro, Água Verde and Rebouças.

The map shows Go Jet and Whoosh: each Whoosh scooter’s charge and range, and each JET scooter’s charge. It shows no prices, parking points, zones or hours; the apps do. On Paraná’s coast it also shows JET in Guaratuba and Matinhos. Both operators run in Porto Alegre too: see e-scooters in Porto Alegre.

Buses, parks and the city’s bikes

Keep out of the canaletas, the busways kept for Curitiba’s buses, and of the bus roads inside terminals. Paraná’s guidelines ban scooters from bus-only lanes, and the city decree and Urbs’s call, as reported, add the terminals. Whoosh charges R$40 for carrying its scooter on a bus, so end the ride at a point near your stop.

Under the decree, as reported, you may not ride through parks or squares unless signs allow it, and Parque Barigui is outside the operators’ area.

Curitiba’s docked bike share, bike Estácio, is run by Tembici: ordinary bikes and e-bikes you unlock with a QR code in the Tembici app. The map shows standing e-scooters only, not these bikes.

Did you know?

• Riding two-up got accounts blocked. In its first three weeks JET stepped in 516 times and blocked 257 accounts, mostly for two people on one scooter or riders under 18.
• Over 50,000 rides in under a month. Riders made them between the launch on 3 July 2026 and 23 July.
• On slower streets, scooters come first. Paraná’s guidelines let them ride on streets with a limit of 40 km/h or less, with the traffic and with priority over motor vehicles.