This isn't some 4,000 pound Tesla. According to https://mi-xiaomi.net/specs/ https://mi-xiaomi.net/specs/, the scooter uses 1.1 kWh per 100km. Let's say you r

This isn't some 4,000 pound Tesla. According to https://mi-xiaomi.net/specs/ https://mi-xiaomi.net/specs/, the scooter uses 1.1 kWh per 100km. Let's say you ride this scooter 10 miles a day on your nice, short commute. That's roughly 0.2kWh. The average home uses ~35 kWh per day, so this is in the noise of household electricity usage. Per https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-calculator-calculations-and-references https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca... that's roughly 0.3 lbs of C02 in those 10 miles in the average US state. Obviously it's significantly lower than that in many places using nuclear, natural gas, and renewables, and it is decreasing annually everywhere. According to https://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_carbon_dioxide_does_a_car_produce https://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_carbon_dioxide_does_a_car..., the average car produces 0.6 lbs of C02 per mile, or 6 lbs of C02 in that 10-mile commute. So the electric scooter isn't quite zero, but it's insignificant at less than 5% of the emissions of an average car.