The electric scooter craze that was isolated last summer mostly to the streets of Salt Lake City is now spreading across the state just in time for warmer days.
Spin brought a few hundred of its bright orange scooters to sunny St. George last month. And on the other end of the state, the e-scooter giant Lime has plans to launch up to 300 scooters in Ogden on Friday.
The rise of e-scooters across the country has been marketed as a way to bridge the gap in a person’s last mile from mass transit and to reduce car trips to ease traffic, congestion and greenhouse emissions.