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The article actually lists e-scooters as being significantly more polluting than the other personal e-mobility options.

• lhorie 5y ago
  Yes, but with a big asterisk: > The TNMT chart isn’t a scientific study and doesn’t claim to be. But their chart tracks with academic research on the total carbon impact of dockless electric scooters, those tiny little pick-up-and-go transportation options that have lately been littering (literally) many American cities. Those, it turns out, are not actually a very good approach to reducing emissions in cities; because they replace more walking and transit trips than they do automobile trips, they need constant repair and replacement, and large, gasoline-powered vehicles have to go around collecting and moving them all the time. So the estimate includes costs of vandalism and repositioning, which are moot for ownership. With that said, no amount of handwaviness is going to make the math work out in favor of e-scooters if we compare to good ol' bycicles.