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NC State: Electric Scooters Are Not Climate-Friendly After All

According to researchers at North Carolina State University, electric scooters such as Bird and Lime scooters are not as eco-friendly as previously believed. According to researchers, only 34 percent of scooter users would have otherwise used a car, while the majority would have used environment-friendly bicycles or public transportation.

Electric Scooters from Lime, rentable via the Uber app

Vandals Target Electric Scooters in Southern California

Vandals in Southern California are finding increasingly creative — and, at times, disgusting — ways of attacking electric scooters that some residents consider a nuisance, though many others find them a useful way of traveling short distances without using a car.

Bird electric scooter Turd (Joel Pollak / Breitbart News)