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    Electric scooters are good for the environment, right? Here's why it's not so simple

    by Julia Rosen, Los Angeles Times Aug 05, 2019 5 minutes

    In March, Joe Hollingsworth hopped on a Lime scooter and zipped across the campus of North Carolina State University. At the end of the ride, a message appeared on the screen: "Your ride was carbon free."

    The pronouncement embodied the climate-friendly marketing of e-scooter companies like Lime and Bird. But it puzzled Hollingsworth, then a graduate student in environmental engineering, and his advisor, Jeremiah Johnson.

    Sure, scooters don't have a tailpipe. "But you have to think about the other things that are required to have the scooter ready, charged and available for you to use," Johnson said.

    So he and his students decided to tally up the full environmental impact of electric scooters over their lifetimes. The results, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggest that e-scooters aren't quite as eco-friendly as they

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