Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business

how can they possibly allow strangers with no background check to plug in scooters.

Out of control? Seems pretty cool that there's a company offering young people a rewarding, competitive, and productive after school activity.

It will disappear just as fast as it arrived. Maybe one will survive. Just like Sprig, Spoonrocket, Maple, Eatclub, etc and the legion of instant food delivery services came and went, this too will pass.

I wonder if the company is asking these teens, during the registration as contractors, if they have permission from their parents to charge all those scooters at home. I can imagine several parents getting angry for excessive increments in the electricity bills every month without having a clue about their children's "business". Of course, many of them will probably find the scooters in the garage in a regular morning walk around the house, but then…

- Do they [the parents] get a percentage of that money to pay for the bills?

- Is it even legal for these independent contractors to use home electricity to charge a 3rd-party business asset?

- Are damages to the house, in case of a fire, covered by their contracts?

- If the scooters are out of battery, how do these companies know where they are?

- Can these teenagers hold the scooters "hostage"?

- Can they charge extra money for dropping the scooters to places with some people can find it more convenient? Say, if I want to find one of them right in front of my house every morning, I would pay one of these teenagers some extra money for the arrangement.

- Are these houses in risk of over-charging their electricity net?

I have so many questions about all this, it seems so weird to me.

Doesn't seem at all out of control. Seems like an awesome idea and the process needs to be refined to dissuade bad behavior. Considering the company was founded about a year ago is probably a lot of room for improvements and innovation (and angering your contractors in the process).