E-scooters in Malmö: Ryde, Voi, Lime and Bolt, and where to ride and park

E-scooters in Malmö: four companies, 2,800 scooters

Electric scooter rental in Malmö needs a permit from the Swedish Police Authority (Polismyndigheten) to use public land, and the City of Malmö (Malmö stad) gives the police its view, including how many scooters each company should have. On 8 September 2026 the City’s traffic committee (tekniska nämndens trafikutskott) shared out its cap of 2,800 e-scooters for 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. It ranked the companies on how they did from February to August, and keeping to the parking rules weighed most:

Ryde has the largest share but isn’t on our map, so look for its scooters in its own app, and don’t read the map’s total as all the scooters in town. At 21:50 on Wednesday 28 October 2026 the map of Malmö showed about 640 Voi and 440 Bolt scooters as they stood at that moment, and about 435 Lime scooters as last counted: a snapshot, not the fleet size. Scooters on a ride aren’t shown, nor prices, zones or parking. The map’s area isn’t cut to the city limits and may take in Arlöv and other edges of Malmö’s neighbours.

Before January 2024, when the cap began, Malmö had up to about 6,500 scooters, the City’s streets office (fastighets- och gatukontoret) wrote in January 2026. Within the cap the City also limits the centre: on a daily average, no more than 600 scooters in the inner centre and 800 in the outer centre, limits it kept for this period (September 2026).

How much does a Voi, Lime, Bolt or Ryde scooter cost in Malmö?

The app shows the price before you unlock. We found no Malmö price on an open official page: Bolt’s Swedish website gives only prices in euros for the whole country and sends you to the app, Ryde’s website lists none, and Voi’s and Lime’s websites refused our requests.

Bolt rents only to riders aged 18 or over, its Swedish terms say. If you leave a Bolt scooter outside its permitted parking area, it may charge up to SEK 1,000 to collect it and up to SEK 1,000 for the unpermitted parking. From 1 December 2026, new terms add a SEK 60 fee if the photo the app asks for at the end of a ride shows the scooter wrongly parked. Check each app for its own age limit and fees.

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

E-scooter rules in Sweden: what applies in Malmö

An e-scooter, or elsparkcykel as Malmö’s own pages call it, counts as a bicycle if it goes no faster than 20 km/h and its motor is rated at no more than 250 W, says the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen, 14 August 2026), so cyclists’ rules apply. If you come over from Denmark, Swedish law applies here, not Danish law. The law sets no minimum age; under-15s must wear a helmet, and the agency recommends one for everyone.

The police issue these fines on the spot (ordningsbot), at the amounts for cyclists set by the Prosecutor-General (1 November 2025). The City of Malmö says it sets the parking rules and slow zones, while the police enforce the traffic rules and issue the fines. The same national rules apply in Stockholm: see our Stockholm guide.

Where to park an e-scooter in Malmö

Since January 2024 the City has required hire scooters in the centre to be parked only in special e-scooter stands, which its papers call mobilitetshagar. Outside the centre you may also use marked parking places and approved cycle racks. Hire bikes share the same places. The City keeps widening the area where stands are compulsory as it builds more, so check the parking area in the app before you end your ride, or on the City’s map of the stands.

The City can remove a wrongly parked hire scooter without warning under the law on vehicle removal, its streets office wrote in January 2026. If a hire scooter is a danger to other road users and you can’t move it yourself, report it to the City of Malmö, which says it will move it.

In central Malmö a hire scooter belongs in a marked e-scooter stand, not at the kerb or in an ordinary cycle rack. The app shows where the stands are.

Gamla staden, Västra hamnen, Ribersborg and the station

For Gamla staden (the old town), Lilla torg and Stortorget, Västra hamnen and the Turning Torso, and the parks, we found no e-scooter rule from the City beyond its parking stands and the slow zones the apps show. Wherever a street is signed as a pedestrian street (gågata), the law requires walking pace and gives people on foot priority; the City’s map marks its pedestrian zones. Ribersborgsstigen, by Ribersborg beach, is the city’s one cycle street (cykelgata), where vehicles may go no faster than 30 km/h.

Malmö bans motor traffic from 23:00 to 05:00 on parts of Bergsgatan and Stora Nygatan all year, but the ban doesn’t cover cycles, the City says, and an e-scooter counts as one. We found no night rule or winter pause for hire scooters from the City (October 2026).

Can you take an e-scooter on the train or bus, or to Copenhagen?

Skånetrafiken, the region’s public transport, treats an e-scooter as hand luggage if it is folded as small as it goes for the whole trip:

• Pågatåg and Öresundståg trains: folded e-scooters count as hand luggage, under the seat, if there is room.
• City and regional buses: folded e-scooters only, as hand luggage; on city buses, if there is room.
• Platforms: no riding, and no parking.

A hire scooter stays on the street: end your ride in a stand near the station before you board. The Öresundståg to Copenhagen takes a folded e-scooter of your own as hand luggage, but not a hire scooter.

Lund, city bikes and e-bikes

Lund is a separate town with its own rules: the map of Lund shows Voi and Bolt there.

Malmö by Bike, the city bike system, has more than 1,000 bikes at over 100 stations and is open round the clock all year. Bauer Media owns and runs it for the City, and from week 46 of 2026, which starts on 9 November, riders aged 18 to 25 ride it free, the City says (28 October 2026).

Shared e-bikes were last in Malmö in 2024. On 5 October 2026 the traffic committee backed police permits for Voi and Ryde to rent out up to 300 e-bikes each, on trial until 31 March 2027. The map shows standing e-scooters only, not bikes.

Did you know?

• Twice as many rides. About 3.9 million e-scooter rides were taken in Malmö in 2025, twice as many as in 2024, the City’s streets office counted.
• More crashes. E-scooters, private and hired alike, were in 40.5% of the cycle accidents recorded in Malmö in 2025, against about 29% from 2022 to 2024, and e-scooter accidents among under-18s more than doubled on 2024 (up 116%), by the City’s still incomplete count.
• Two or three on one scooter. The City saw more riding on footways and two or three people on one scooter in 2025. In February 2026 it added riders’ behaviour to the ways it judges the companies, though by September it had too little data to use it.