Lime green energy: The electric scooter company wants to be carbon neutral

Lime, the electric scooter and bicycle company, wants to go “lime green” by becoming a carbon neutral business. 

On Tuesday, Lime announced a partnership with NativeEnergy that will allow it to buy renewable energy credits to charge its fleet. Since people charge most of the scooters in their homes, Lime can't completely control the company's energy consumption.

Still, Lime will use renewable energy purchased from local utilities and NativeEnergy renewable energy projects to charge bikes and some scooters. 

Lime will also buy carbon offsets to balance out the emissions that come from its operations and management fleet, like the trucks and other vehicles that go out to fix and replace damaged bikes and scooters. The company also said it wants to make its offices more energy efficient and that it's exploring on-site solar energy as an alternative power source. Read more...