“ Given the urgency of the climate crisis , now is the time to rethink the future of mobility in cities to create more sustainable ways of city-living ”
HUI WEN CHAN DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY , SPIN
distance it takes to access the various elements of people ’ s lives . Shared micromobility services must be a key part of the new urban transportation landscape and how people move around . Nearly 50 % of car trips in the U . S . are less than three miles – distances that are easily replaced by e-scooters and e-bikes .
Mobility in 21st-century cities can ’ t just be about replacing gas cars with electric ones . Cars have negative environmental and social impacts beyond emissions . They take up valuable public space , create congestion , pollution and noise – all of which have negative health impacts for communities – and spend 95 % of their inanimate existences parked .
Scooting stars We don ’ t see micromobility replacing cars , but it can help reduce the use of cars , enable efficient connection to public transit , reduce emissions and allow cities to repurpose space formerly dedicated to parking .
E-scooters and e-bikes are zero-emissions vehicles . Accounting for lifecycle emissions , scooters are much less emissions-intensive than single-occupancy vehicles . Spin ’ s life cycle assessment of our latest generation of e-scooter – conducted in partnership with MIT – indicates that the
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