# A Carbon-Free Future Starts With Driving Less | Wayne Ting | TED

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** TED
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7INMrxpc7nw
- **Дата:** 01.11.2022
- **Длительность:** 3:30
- **Просмотры:** 74,002
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/5659

## Описание

Can we use less energy from fossil fuels while also meeting our transportation needs? Enter shared electric micromobility: the transition away from dependence on cars and towards lightweight transport options like electric scooters, which release a fraction of the carbon emissions of conventional transport. Helping people get around on the world's largest shared electric vehicles system, entrepreneur and Lime CEO Wayne Ting shares how his company redesigned their scooters so parts can be reused and recycled, ultimately reducing their direct and indirect carbon output. "We have to work at building a future of transportation that is shared, affordable, but most importantly, carbon-free," says Ting

In the Green is a TED series featuring senior leaders from around the business world sharing important lessons about carbon emissions reduction that can be applied to workplaces everywhere. Presented by TED Countdown (https://countdown.ted.com) and The Climate Pledge (https://theclimatepledge.

## Транскрипт

### Intro []

foreign the number one source of carbon emissions in the United States is coming from Transportation globally it's number two and the majority of that comes from our personal use our cars and trucks how do we consume less energy while meeting the needs that people have of Transportation

### How do we consume less energy [0:40]

the majority of car trips in the world today are less than five miles it's a simple question can we get more people to drive less and bike more and scooter more to where they go the average trip on an e-bike or e-scooter produces less than seven percent carbon Emissions on equivalent car trip micro Mobility is dramatically more green than Alternatives and we're working every single day to reduce our own carbon emissions even further so what sometimes happens is that a company would say what is the dirtiest part of our business let's just Outsource it and if we Outsource it we've solved our problems but that doesn't actually solve your problem because somebody else is polluting and emitting if we're going to

### Reduce Reuse Recycle [1:20]

live up to our own ideals then we need to do the core of what folks have always done Reduce Reuse and recycle the early days of microability we took a consumer scooter or a consumer ebike and we put it into a commercial space and what that meant was that our average scooter lasted a month imagine that every month we need to buy an entire fleet for the world and that was not green and it created enormous amount of shipping costs manufacturing costs upstream and then ultimately it created problems in terms of end of life of our scooters and e-bikes and so we found manufacturing partners that can build scooters and e-bikes that last four years five years rather than a month we also then said okay it's not just how long it lasts it also depends on how many of the parts we can reuse and so we started to say let's

### Swappable Batteries [2:03]

redesign our entire e-bikes and e-scooters so that if a scooter does break we can take it apart and reuse many parts of that scooter we started to use a swappable Battery Technology not only does it increase the life it also reduce the number of trips we have to take back and forth to actually support our Fleet and we're constantly working to reduce the amount of waste that we actually sent to landfill once our batteries get to the end of life they may not have sufficient charge to power an e-bike but that battery can still power many things we started partnering with a portable speaker maker and we take that battery that today doesn't have enough juice to power somebody on a scooter and we turn it into the battery for the portable speaker and it extends and it recycles into that life a lot of these things wouldn't be part of our direct carbon emissions but we care about it because the thing that we have to count is the true end-to-end life cycle of our products when I look across all these things it's not one thing it's not two things it's a hundred little actions we do and it starts with understanding and measuring our own environmental impact and challenging ourselves to do better we have to work at building a future of transportation that is shared affordable but most importantly carbon free thank you