E-scooters in Norrköping: Voi, Qick and Ryde, and where to ride and park

E-scooters in Norrköping: Voi, Qick and Ryde

Electric scooter rental in Norrköping needs a permit from the police to use public land, and the police must include the conditions Norrköpings kommun sets, the kommun says. Its e-scooter page gives contacts for three rental companies (updated 28 July 2026, read 29 October 2026):

Ryde 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 13:55 on Thursday 29 October 2026 the map of Norrköping showed about 460 Voi scooters as they stood at that moment and about 490 Qick scooters as last counted: a snapshot, not the fleet size. Scooters on a ride aren’t shown, nor prices, zones or parking.

The map has no outline for Norrköping: its total is everything the two companies’ data assign to the town, and Voi’s area takes in Söderköping, a separate municipality, so it isn’t a count within Norrköping’s boundaries. Bolt and Lime aren’t on the kommun’s list.

How much does a Voi or Qick scooter cost in Norrköping?

The app shows the price before you unlock. We found no Norrköping price on an open official page, and neither Qick’s nor Ryde’s website lists one (29 October 2026).

Qick rents only to riders aged 18 or over, its website and terms say, and Ryde’s Swedish terms let you ride from 15 (both read 29 October 2026). Check the Voi app for its own age limit and fees.

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

Norrköping’s conditions for hire scooters

The kommun’s planning committee (samhällsplaneringsnämnden) set out the conditions it asks of e-scooter companies in land-use guidelines adopted on 11 November 2025, and the kommun’s land-use page lists most of them (30 April 2026). Under them, a company must:

• move a scooter standing in the way or dangerously to a suitable place within two hours, and remove a broken one within a day of learning of it;
• keep its scooters out of the way of street cleaning and snow clearing, off the tactile paving that guides blind people, clear of the kommun’s benches, and off grass where they hinder its upkeep;
• fit every scooter with a double stand, and have you photograph your parked scooter at the end of each ride;
• use geofencing to hold scooters to 6 km/h on certain stretches and places, and to stop rides ending in areas the kommun marks on its map service.

The guidelines name no streets, and we found no list of those places: the app shows where you must slow down or can’t end a ride. The kommun says it is working with the police to update its conditions (28 July 2026), and we found no company’s permit itself.

The kommun charges each company SEK 2.50 a day for every scooter on its land, under fees the municipal council set on 16 December 2024. Its e-scooter page and the guidelines name no cap on numbers, no night rule and no winter pause.

If the kommun picks up a Qick scooter you parked wrongly, Qick’s terms let it charge you up to SEK 1,500; to avoid that, your end-of-ride photo must clearly show the scooter in a cycle rack or other cycle parking. Ryde’s Swedish terms say that if you send no parking photo and a municipality charges Ryde, you pay what Ryde reckons the cost to be.

E-scooter rules in Sweden: what applies in Norrköping

An e-scooter, or elsparkcykel as Norrköping’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. The law sets no minimum age; under-15s must wear a helmet, and the agency recommends one for everyone.

An e-scooter also needs brakes, a bell, and lights and reflectors in the dark. The police issue these fines on the spot (ordningsbot), at the amounts for cyclists set by the Prosecutor-General (1 November 2025); the kommun says policing traffic is the police’s job. The same national rules apply in Stockholm: see our Stockholm guide.

Where to park an e-scooter in Norrköping

Since 1 September 2022 Swedish law has banned leaving an e-scooter on a footway or cycle lane except in a marked parking place or a cycle rack, though a town may allow exceptions; the kommun’s page makes none. It says you must park in a cycle rack or in the e-scooter parking places marked with signs and ground markings in the inner city, just as you would park a bicycle.

The kommun and the police may move a wrongly parked scooter off footways and cycle lanes, at the rental company’s cost, the kommun says. To report one, contact the company that owns it, or use the kommun’s fault-report form (felanmälan) under “parkering”.

In Norrköping a hire scooter belongs in a cycle rack or a marked e-scooter parking place, never on the pavement or a cycle lane. The app shows where ending a ride is allowed.

The station, Campus Norrköping, Industrilandskapet and the airport

Linköping University’s Campus Norrköping lies in the Industrial Landscape (Industrilandskapet), the old mill district along the Motala ström river in the town centre. In the early 1970s the kommun chose to keep the closed mills rather than pull them down, Visit Norrköping says.

Can you take an e-scooter on a tram, bus or train in Norrköping?

Östgötatrafiken, the region’s public transport, runs Norrköping’s trams and buses and the Östgötapendeln commuter trains. Its terms (last updated 14 April 2026) let you take your own e-scooter on board as hand luggage if it is folded as small as it goes and there is room:

• Trams and city buses: folded e-scooters only, as hand luggage; bicycles aren’t allowed.
• Östgötapendeln and rural buses: folded e-scooters as hand luggage; bicycles and e-bikes travel free if there is room, at most six bikes on a train, and a simple folding e-scooter with a folding handlebar counts as an e-bike there.
• On board: it may not block the aisle or an exit or take a seat, and you may not charge it.

Its terms say nothing about hire scooters: end your ride in a rack or a marked parking place near the stop before you board. On SJ trains from Norrköping Central, fold the e-scooter and put it in the luggage rack or under the seat in front of you, not overhead, and don’t charge it on board, SJ says.

Linköping and the map

Östgötapendeln trains run from Norrköping through Linköping to Motala and Tranås, Östgötatrafiken says. Voi, Qick and Ryde rent scooters in Linköping too: see our Linköping guide and the Linköping map. To see what is standing near you now, open the Norrköping map.

Did you know?

• Sweden’s oldest airport for airline traffic. Norrköping’s airport opened in 1934 and is the oldest in Sweden for commercial flights, it says.
• Yellow trams. Trams carry almost half of all public transport journeys in Norrköping, and having been a symbol of the town for a hundred years, they have kept their original yellow, Östgötatrafiken says.
• A seven-sided mill. Strykjärnet (“the Flat Iron”), a former cotton mill with seven sides on the islet of Laxholmen, now houses Arbetets museum, the Museum of Work, Visit Norrköping says.
• A station from 1866. Norrköping Central was built in 1866 and listed in 2001; a new station is to be built a little way off once the Ostlänken line is finished, Jernhusen says.