You can make hundreds of dollars a day charging electric scooters—here's how

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You can make hundreds of dollars a day charging electric scooters—here's how (via CNBCMakeIt)

new and trendy way to get around cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Once you're approved, the company will send you three sets of charging supplies, which include a wall plug and power brick. "At the start, that's your limiting factor," says Campbell. "The more supplies you have, the better." Loading the 30-pound apparatus into your car requires more effort, especially after you've gathered a few. "It's like a game of Tetris trying to fit them all in," says Campbell.

Campbell prefers to let them juice up over night. In the morning, he brings them to designated release spots called "nests," which you can claim in the app and reserve for 30 minutes. Ryan Feldman, a 32-year-old software engineer who used to charge scooters on the side, could "fit up to 45 scooters in my pickup truck at a time," he tells CNBC Make It. He had 50 chargers, captured both Birds and Limes and earned, on average, $150 a night. His biggest limitation was, he says, "the number of scooters I could safely fit in my truck."

The competition has stiffened, too. "The last two nights I charged, there were multiple occurrences when I would show up to pick up a scooter and three to four other vehicles were there to do the same," says Feldman.

 

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MakeIt You can make hundreds of dollars charging electric scooters by spending thousands of dollars on gasoline trying to find them.

MakeIt So they make money by driving around using fuel or electricity to find scooters that need charging.. which they bring back to their house and use their electricity which they pay for to charge them.. and they make a few $'s out of it..

MakeIt How much did the gas cost (in LA of all places too) and the electricity to charge them? All for $23 per night? RAZOR (like the scooter) thin margins

MakeIt What does the electricity cost

MakeIt How do the scooters get spread about when relased back into the wild? Do you have to take the scooter to designated spots after charging them?

MakeIt I think u can get mugged at night if you're not too careful. Should only work during the days.

MakeIt What would you say if your son or daughter came and told you “Dad, when I grow up, I want to be an electric scooter charger”?

MakeIt I don’t get this. Gas driving around, wear and tear of the car, the lifting of the bikes and the time, to make $25 I think your actually losing.

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MakeIt Step 1: Spend hundreds of dollars driving around to collect and charge the scooters. Step 2: Pretend you’re not turning depreciation into cash.

MakeIt Looks like too much hassle

MakeIt It's because only few people are doing it right now. More people doing this means fewer scooters to charge and less money

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MakeIt MIT did a study on this and for the environment this would be one of the worst forms of travel, you would only really want to use one if you owned it personally, and charged it yourself, and then again only if you were using it in place of a car or other public transport systems.

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