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Electric scooters are worse for the planet than the modes of transportation they’re displacing, a study finds.
Companies like Bird and Lime have been selling us a promise about their electric scooters: They’re great for the planet! For the most part, we’ve enthusiastically embraced this notion, and it’s helped catapult scooters into popularity. Last year, riders took about 38.5 million trips on them.
But it might be time to question the climate-friendly narrative. Just because the scooters themselves don’t spew out carbon dioxide, doesn’t mean the process of making, charging, and transporting them is emission-free.
In fact, on the whole, scooters are worse for the environment than the modes of transportation they’re replacing, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters.
Are they really replacing other modes of transportation?
Comments
Yes, but look at how happy those people look though.
Those batteries are horrible for the environment, and they don't eve know what to do about it once they go bad.
It's the same problem with Prius and other hybrids.
Yep, they're scrapped at a ridiculous pace. They also need to be charged, electricity production unless it's solar, is not clean.