Instead of constantly picking up the scooters and recharging them, now workers can just slip a new battery in. Electric scooters may seem climate-friendly since they don’t belch tailpipe emissions like cars, but riding a scooter typically has a fairly high carbon footprint. One recent study that tallied up the environmental impact of making a scooter, transporting it, and using it (including all of the trips made by trucks to pick up the scooters for charging) concluded that the carbon footprint of riding one is higher than riding on a full city bus or riding a bike—and in many cases, someone on a scooter would have walked if the scooter wasn’t available.Read Full Story
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