All-Electric eSkootr Race Series Going With Net-Zero Carbon Footprint

When it launches later this year, the Electric Scooter Championship (eSC) will already have a green outlook on racing, focused as it will be on micro mobility and the electrification of transportation. But today the race series organizers said they would also make sure they have net-zero carbon emissions starting in 2022.

As part of today’s announcement, eSC will join the United Nations Climate Neutral Now program, which is a way for organizations to calculate, lower and offset their carbon emissions. Groups and companies using UN’s Climate Neutral Now use UN-certified carbon emission reduction units and other “trustworthy carbon credits.”

For now, eSC is calculating what its carbon footprint will be, so that it can take action to offset those emissions next year. eSC is also promoting sustainability and innovation as the eSkootr chassis is being designed, as well as in the race series’ logistics. eSC said this carbon offset mission is just the first in a “series of mission-driven actions designed to promote sustainability.”

Full details of where and when the world’s first international electric race scooter series will take place have not yet been announced, but the series will use “specially developed high-speed electric scooters” that were designed and built in partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering. These two-wheeled speedsters will zip around a series of “specially designed urban venues in some of the world’s most cosmopolitan and progressive cities.” Aside from the thrills – and inevitable spills – one of the main missions of the eSC is to “make international motorsport more accessible, affordable and sustainable than ever before,” the organizers say.

The eSkootr Championship, that’s its official name, was co-founded by a group with ties to Formula 1 and Formula E, so they know something about racing on reworked city streets. eSC COO Khalil Beschir was a Formula 1 broadcaster and former F1 driver Alex Wurz and Formula E racer and UN Ambassador Lucas di Grassi are also both involved.

“The United Nations leads the way in helping forward-thinking, environmentally conscious organisations to become climate-neutral – as part of its wider goal to achieve global climate neutrality midway through this century,” di Grassi, eSkootr Championship’s sustainability ambassador, said in a statement. “eSC is committed to a science-based and mission-driven approach to reducing our carbon footprint. Achieving our net-zero target through transparent, measurable steps is fundamental to the sustainability road map for our series. Motorsport can be a powerful catalyst for innovation, and eSC has an exciting contribution to make on sustainability and safety to the rapidly growing micromobility movement.”