E-scooters in Slough: Voi hire, the council’s trial, prices and where to park

E-scooters in Slough: Voi and Slough Borough Council’s trial

Voi hires out Slough’s e-scooters. Slough Borough Council began its rental trial in October 2020 with Neuron Mobility, suspended it on 30 November 2022 and restarted it with Zipp Mobility on 28 May 2024. The trial switched to Voi on 10 December 2024 and will continue until the end of the government’s trial period, the council says.

The government’s list of trial areas, updated on 7 July 2026, includes Slough, and the government says the 21 live trials are due to end on 31 May 2028.

At 13:57 GMT on Sunday 1 November 2026 the map of Slough showed 216 Voi e-scooters free to rent at that moment. At 13:53 GMT the map showed 216 too, in and around the town, from Britwell, Cippenham and Haymill in the west to Wexham Court and Langley in the east. The map shows where each scooter stands and its battery, not bays or zones; you unlock and pay in the Voi app.

Where are the scooters in Slough?

At 13:53 the map showed none in the villages of Burnham, Farnham Royal or Stoke Poges, in Buckinghamshire, none in Colnbrook or Poyle, between Langley and Heathrow, and none in Eton or Datchet, or in Windsor across the Thames.

The council’s pages give no hours for the scooters, so check the app before a late ride.

How much does a Voi e-scooter cost in Slough?

Slough Borough Council’s trial page gives Voi’s June 2026 prices, below. On 1 November 2026 the map gave each scooter the same price, £1 to unlock and 22p a minute; the Voi app shows the current price before you unlock.

Voi’s launch price in December 2024 was 49p to unlock and 18p a minute, the council said at the time. New to hire scooters? See how to rent an e-scooter, and for every trial area in England, e-scooter hire in the UK.

Who can ride a Voi in Slough, and what gets you fined

Slough Borough Council says riders must be 18 or over with a valid driving licence, and must verify their age and identity when they sign up: the Voi app asks for your licence and a selfie. A full licence from an EU or EEA country also works, the council adds. A UK licence needs category Q, which comes with every car, moped and motorcycle licence; with a provisional one you don’t need L plates, the government says. Visitors can also use another country’s full licence within 12 months of arriving, but never a foreign provisional licence or learner permit.

Voi provides third-party insurance for riders and pedestrians, the council says. The national rules are in our guide to e-scooter law in the UK.

A private e-scooter is illegal on Slough’s roads, pavements and cycle lanes and in its parks; you may ride one only on private land with the owner’s permission. Riding one counts as riding an uninsured motor vehicle: a £300 fixed penalty and 6 points, and the police can seize it, since 29 June 2026 without a warning first if it is ridden anti-socially. On 30 October 2026 there was no government bill to change this, and in September the Department for Transport said only that it would consult on e-scooter rules “over the next year”.

Where can you ride and park a Voi in Slough?

You may ride on the road and in cycle and bus lanes, but never on pavements, playing fields or parks, Slough Borough Council says. Every ride ends in a marked bay, a painted square on the ground that the Voi app shows on its map. If the scooter isn’t in a bay, the ride can’t end and you keep paying until it is. The council’s page put the first spread at up to 130 bays across the trial area.

Voi worked with the council on the speeds and the areas where you may ride and park, and the scooters are geofenced: take one into a no-go zone and it slows down and finally stops, the council says. The map here doesn’t draw bays or zones, so check the app before you set off.

Parks. The ban covers Slough’s parks, Herschel Park among them: end your ride in a bay and walk in.

The town centre. At 14:02 GMT on 1 November 2026 the map showed 44 scooters in and around the town centre, by the station and the High Street: 9 within 150 metres of the station, the nearest 13 metres away, and 18 within 300 metres.

Seen a scooter ridden on a pavement or left in the way? Note its number plate and tell Voi in the app: it can act faster than the council’s highways form, the council says.

Slough station, the Elizabeth line, GWR and the buses

Trains from Slough are run by GWR and by Transport for London’s Elizabeth line, the council’s travel page says. End your Voi ride in a bay near the station and walk in.

• Elizabeth line: TfL doesn’t allow e-scooters on its services, even folded; the details are in our guide to e-scooters in London.
• GWR: check GWR’s own rules before you take any e-scooter to its trains.

Langley and Burnham. At 14:02 GMT the map showed four scooters within 500 metres of Langley station, 3.5 km east of Slough station as the crow flies. In the west, at 13:53 the map showed 3 around Haymill, west of Burnham station.

Buses. Slough’s bus station closed after a fire in a parked bus on 29 October 2022, the council said in February 2023; on 1 November 2026 its travel page still said it was closed until further notice, with buses stopping in Wellington Street, Brunel Way, the High Street and Windsor Road. End your Voi ride before you board, and check the bus company’s own rules on e-scooters.

Windsor, Eton and Heathrow: outside the trial

Windsor and Eton. Eton lies about 2.8 km south of Slough station as the crow flies, and Windsor, across the Thames, about 3.8 km, both in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, which wasn’t on the government’s July 2026 list of trial areas. At 13:53 GMT the map showed no scooter in either, or in Datchet. A hire scooter may be ridden only in a trial area, so end your ride in Slough and go on by train, bus or on foot.

Heathrow. The airport isn’t in Slough: Terminal 5 is about 5.5 km south-east of Langley station as the crow flies, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, which in October 2026 wasn’t one of the 11 boroughs in London’s trial (see e-scooters in London). So you can’t ride a hire e-scooter to the airport.

Did you know?

• Three colours since 2020. Slough’s trial began with Neuron Mobility’s orange scooters, came back in May 2024 with Zipp’s bright yellow ones, and has run since December 2024 with Voi’s coral ones, the council says.
• A fast start. In the trial’s first five months, to March 2021, 10,000 people signed up and riders covered 100,000 km, the council said when the trial reached Langley, Wexham and Britwell on 18 March 2021.
• An astronomer’s town. Sir William Herschel, astronomer to King George III and discoverer of the planet Uranus, lived in Observatory House on the Windsor Road, and his grave lies under the tower of the Church of St Laurence in Upton, the oldest building in Slough, from the 12th century, the council’s Herschel Park trail guide says.