Electric scooters: not so eco-friendly after all?

I'd love to see them introduced to Kyoto, it would be absolute bedlam.

@ClippetyClop with Kyoto's narrow streets and very hot Summers I don't think they are suitable for it.

Lime will be the next to stop service in Paris. 6 other companies already left.

Lime has recently partnered with a French company that claims it can recycle 70 percent of spent batteries.

I don't believe they will go fish and recycle the batteries of the countless scooters that have been thrown into the Seine.

Kyoto's narrow streets 

Streets are even narrower in Paris.

The largest part of any vehicles environmental impact (including scooters) is in the manufacturing. Unless they have a life span of years they are an environmental disaster.

I think I would prefer an electric cycle of some sort,\ - something that could carry a basket, and which could accomodate a seat. Also, if users leased or owned them, they would be much more likely to treat them well.

OK, so we're going from Fumes to Recycling issues....

China has unsurprisingly been at the forefront of Electric Mopeds - though the reliance upon led acid batteries has deemed these as being un-green.

Nuclear Power is seen also as un-green - yet, even it's the most efficient Power source that we have to-date.

Efficiency is what devices should be ranked by, not power sources. We should change our attitudes towards having more power efficient devices at source, rather than having power hungry devices - BitCoin mining farms are recently hitting the top of the scale here... so if you hold BitCoins you certainly are not Green.