Lime, one of the main players in the shareable ... But that job is much harder than it sounds. Chargers complain that a scooter’s location on the app doesn’t always correspond to its location ...

“I loved the chase of it,” said former Lime charger Karen Smith, who juiced up scooters in addition to a full-time job. “But it just wasn’t worth it anymore. I was running around every ...

Robert Cartwright is a charger for Bird, a Santa Monica company that started the e-scooter craze two years ago. It operates in 100 cities worldwide and, like Lime, farms out its recharging to ...

Lime typically pays people about $5 per scooter to charge the vehicles at their homes overnight. The scooters in question will not be available to freelance chargers, whom the company calls ...

Unlike the race that is collecting Bird scooters, Lime’s juicers take part in a process that is much more geared toward patience. Bird chargers run for every scooter they see because they’re ...

"I don't think this is something people in the community want or the chargers want. Scooter Map isn't really hurting Lime." (Chargers are people who collect scooters when their batteries are low ...

People known as "Chargers" for Bird and "Juicers" for Lime are paid to collect the scooters each evening, charge them and redistribute them the next morning. Chargers — known colloquially as ...

Lime and Bird both utilize a similar system for finding and charging scooters. A special app mode for approved chargers uses GPS to show where scooters are sitting, the remaining battery level ...