Project set to extend working life of e-scooters
A two-year project at WMG, University of Warwick is looking at ways of increasing the lifespan of rental e-scooters from just a few months to three years.
Shared, or rental e-scooters are becoming a popular mode of transport with trials taking place in cities across the UK. Their usage has accelerated rapidly since 2020 in response to COVID-19, as people seek alternative options from public transport.
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E-scooters do not produce any CO2 at the point of use, which can help to promote cleaner air in the places they are deployed, but the typical service life is only between 2-5 months, after which point they are scrapped.
Over the next two years, and with funding from WMG centre High Value Manufacturing Catapult, researchers from WMG, University of Warwick will seek to increase e-scooter service life to three years through human factors engineering processes in collaboration with e-scooter companies.
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