Paris bans rental E scooters

[Zurdo]

An e scooter is an expensive thing to buy, there are a lot more things I could do with that money before I put it on a scooter. These rental companies have hundreds of thousands of these things in cities around the world, and they take terrible abuse, the lifespan of some would just be a matter of days. But it seems a very lucrative business...or else they wouldn't do it. What is the real cost of these scooters to them ?