Electric scooters may seem climate-friendly since they don’t belch tailpipe emissions like cars, but riding a scooter typically has a fairly high carbon footprint. One recent study that tallied up the ...

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Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of promise for swappable electric batteries in the light electric vehicle industry. Just yesterday, KYMCO announced a partnership with 22Motors to build electric ...

Battery swap technology has received a boost with Yamaha unveiling their EC-05 electric scooter with Gogoro lithium-ion battery packs you can easily swap at a convenient roadside vending machine. The ...

Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter ...

City and FDNY inspectors shut down a Queens scooter business that was building dozens of fire-prone lithium-ion batteries — and not a moment too soon, as the batteries began to ignite as firefighters ...

The tiny scooter was off the line slightly quicker than my larger Vespa. I crashed my first motorcycle (actually it was borrowed) at age five and I've been up on two (and sometimes three) wheels ever ...