Hi everyone!
Few months ago I asked about finding a good cheap escooter: https://lemmy.world/post/15970361
After watching this review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsC8Fd7Hb1w&t=472s
I ended up buying this scooter!
https://gotrax.com/products/seated-electric-scooter
On Thursday did my longest trip with it and did nearly 13 miles, and it still had over 25% left. I weigh 140 pounds so me being light might be why it had such a good range.
Otherwise I use it a ton to go grocery shopping every couple days, get to dr appointments, and the like. It’s wonderful for little me who works from home and is within 4 miles of most things I need.
Also I have a room mate who doesn’t have a car for financial reasons, and they’ve fallen in love with it as well for running errands under 2 miles so they’ve mentioned they might get one once they get a bit more money so they don’t have to borrow mine. Only complaint is I might try to make the basket bigger, as it’s a tad small!
But yeah just wanted to throw out my experience for anyone else looking for a cheap escooter!
Some folks seemed leery of finding a decent device for that price point, so wanted to throw it out in case anyone else came looking for a similar thing!
Crazy how cheap and high quality these things are. One recently came out that for 2k can go 50 MPH and has a nearly 50 mile range!
Absolutely absurd. You can register that and go anywhere but the freeway with it. If I ever have to no longer work from home I’ll probably upgrade to a 25 mph one that can keep with the flow of traffic on residential streets more easily.