The Best Electric Kick Scooters (2024)

I've tested a ton of scooters. Not each of them merit a spot above, but immoderate are inactive worthy considering. These are a fewer different bully scooters I like, conscionable not arsenic overmuch arsenic the ones above.

MiniMotors USA Dualtron Mini Special for $1,399: The instructions to assemble this scooter are vague, and a fewer steps aren't adjacent mentioned successful the acquisition booklet. (I recovered the handlebar grip hard to enactment on—rubbing intoxicant is your friend.) This is besides the archetypal clip I tried the MiniMotors Dualtron app, and honestly, it's not beginner-friendly. None of the presumption and functions are good explained. It's not a scooter I'd suggest for newcomers, but erstwhile you get everything up and running, the riding acquisition is rather nice. It has a apical velocity of 35 mph, and portion the institution claims a 40-mile range, you tin expect person to 25 to 30 miles. It'll grip slopes conscionable fine, but I bash find it weird that contempt being reasonably hefty (59 pounds), it has a max load capableness of 200 pounds.

Segway P100S for $1,500: This Segway (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is 73 pounds but has a max velocity of 24 mph, truthful it's a small little aggravated than the Apollo oregon Dualtron Mini Special. At that speed, I was capable to get 16 miles successful with 35 percent near successful the tank. If you bounds the velocity to 20 via the app, you should easy beryllium capable to get adjacent to 20 oregon 25 miles. I conscionable hatred the large crook signal.

Fluidfreeride Fluid Mosquito for $849: If the lightweight Unagi Model One Voyager doesn't involvement you but you inactive privation an ultra-lightweight scooter, past cheque retired the Fluid Mosquito (7/10, WIRED Recommends). At conscionable 29 pounds, it's 1 of the lightest scooters successful this usher and has a comfy, built-in drawback grip for casual toting. It's accelerated to fold and is powerful, with a apical velocity of 24 mph. But shaving down the value connected this nimble scooter does person drawbacks. The suspension is conscionable OK—you'll consciousness astir of those bumps—and the wheels are narrow. The braking strategy works fine, but you mightiness brushwood immoderate skidding if you marque a abrupt stop, and the scope is lackluster (around 9 miles successful my testing, going implicit the Brooklyn Bridge). There's besides nary casual mode to alteration velocity modes connected the fly; you acceptable it earlier you ride.

Niu KQi Air for $1,399: I was truthful excited to trial this scooter, but my acquisition with it implicit respective months is mixed. I inactive similar it, but a fewer quirks clasp it backmost from being a apical pick. The KQi Air has a c fibre frame, allowing it to beryllium a specified 26 pounds with a 20-mph apical speed. That makes it the lightest scooter I person ever tested. It's casual to fold and has crook signals, a slick app, and reliable regenerative braking. The scope is simply a spot lackluster—I usually got conscionable nether 10 miles connected a azygous charge, but it's truthful lightweight that erstwhile it died connected my mode location once, I strapped it to a Citi Bike's beforehand basket and cycled location (don't bash this!). The thrust prime is great, but I had issues with it refusing to link to my telephone until I disconnected the interior powerfulness cablegram successful the stem. There's a theft extortion that sounds an alarm and slows down the scooter if idiosyncratic tries to rotation it away, but bizarrely, portion you tin permanently crook disconnected the alarm, the lone mode to halt it from braking arsenic you rotation it is to crook the scooter on. My archetypal exemplary besides stopped moving wholly and wouldn't crook on, truthful Niu had to nonstop maine a 2nd model. Oh, and sometimes, during rides, the scooter slows down and doesn't deed its apical velocity until a fewer minutes later. I fishy there's immoderate thermal contented causing this. Overall, there's a batch of promise, but it's conscionable annoying.

TurboAnt M10 Lite for $290: This is simply a perfectly good fund scooter champion for folks nether 200 pounds. (I wasn't capable to deed its apical velocity of 16 mph.) The assembly requires a fewer other steps (more things to screw in, similar the rear mudguard). I was lone capable to get astir 8 miles riding it, but I similar that the folding strategy is quick, the show is bright, and it's beauteous airy astatine 31 pounds. Just don't instrumentality it up immoderate steep hills.

Gotrax Apex for $350: The Apex is 32 pounds and casual to fold up. It has an integrated doorbell and a integer show that shows your velocity and artillery life, and it tin spell up to 15 mph. The Apex is reliable—I've gone to java shops, distant video shoots with a backpack afloat of camera gear, and the market store—though it's not the smoothest ride. The 250-watt centrifugal struggles with immoderate flimsy incline, and slopes drain the artillery fast. The artillery usually doled retired astir 9 miles for me. I'm besides tall, and I had to perpetually outstretch my arms to scope the handlebars. You'll privation to tighten the rear disc brake; it works fine, but I wouldn't person minded much stopping power.

Gotrax GX2 for $1,499: The GX2 is akin to the Apollo Phantom and Segway P100S successful that it's 76 pounds and packs a batch of powerfulness and range. This gunmetal scooter looks a spot similar a Transformer and tin deed a max velocity of 35 mph via the dual 800-watt motors, but I usually rode it astatine 20 mph. It took maine to midtown and backmost to Brooklyn (a full of 18.4 miles) with immoderate foodstuff near over. I hatred carrying it up and down the stairs, due to the fact that the stem is ace thick, making it hard to grasp. When you're waiting astatine a light, the GX2 besides switches to Parking mode aft a fewer seconds, truthful you perpetually person to retrieve to property the mode fastener to power it to the driving gear. It's ace annoying, and Gotrax says there's nary mode to disable it. I americium a small acrophobic astir physique quality—the centrifugal makes a sound arsenic if thing is brushing against it, and this dependable disappears if I lightly property the near brake lever portion riding. The latch to support the stem upright comes down excessively easily, contempt a sliding fastener mechanics to support it successful place; Gotrax says it mightiness conscionable beryllium that it's installed excessively tightly. If you spot immoderate of these issues, I urge reaching retired to Gotrax and going to a section scooter store to person them instrumentality a look.

Navee S65 for $1,099: Navee is simply a comparatively caller marque increasing its beingness successful the US, and I had a large time utilizing the S65 (7/10, WIRED Recommends). I was capable to regularly implicit 16-mile circular trips astatine 20 mph, but that beauteous overmuch depleted the battery. It has large acceleration, acknowledgment to its geared hub motor, and it climbs slopes with ease, but this besides makes it very loud. The motor's dependable disappears if you're successful a noisy metropolis similar New York, but it tin marque you self-conscious connected quiescent streets. It's 53 pounds, truthful it's heavier than our apical prime contempt a akin range, and its lawsuit work is up successful the aerial since it's truthful new. Still, I had amusive riding it.

Evolv Terra for $1,231: I enjoyed my clip with the Evolv Terra (7/10, WIRED Recommends). It's 53 pounds and acknowledgment to the bladed stem, not excessively annoying to carry. It's powerful, with the imaginable to spell arsenic accelerated arsenic 31 miles per hr erstwhile you prosecute some 600-watt motors (check your section velocity laws first!). Otherwise, you tin cruise on astatine 20 mph arsenic I did connected the 2nd cogwheel velocity mounting (there are 3 successful total) with the azygous motor. Range is beauteous average, with astir 2 bars near connected the metre aft 15 miles, truthful it tin perchance past much than 20 miles, particularly if you're blimpish with its speeds. The suspension is OK but the coagulated tires connected rougher roads tin consciousness rather bumpy. The fenders besides seemed beauteous useless to maine as, aft a bedewed thrust post-rain, my backmost was covered successful specks of ungraded kicked up from the rear tire. The stem's space was besides a small excessively adjacent to my body, and the deficiency of a thumb throttle meant my wrist wounded aft agelong rides. You tin tweak the space of the throttle and brakes to amended this though.

Radio Flyer S533 for $599: Honestly, I'm amazed astatine however good this scooter did successful my tests. The folding mechanics is conscionable a latch and a sleeve you propulsion down to support the latch from coming undone portion you ride. It's ace casual to fold and unfold, and lightweight astatine 30 pounds. It's not a commuter scooter by immoderate means—my scope hovered nether 8 miles connected a azygous charge—and contempt exceeding its 220-pound load capacity, I averaged astir 14 mph of its 16 mph apical speed. It's a bully small scooter for going to the station office, market store, oregon Cinnabon erstwhile my woman asks for a cinnamon roll. However, its terms doesn't lucifer its powerfulness and performance; it should beryllium cheaper. It's besides worthy noting that the archetypal exemplary the institution sent maine didn't crook connected and the 2nd exemplary had a deflated beforehand tire. Inflating it was a speedy matter and I haven't had problems since.

Apollo Air Pro (2022) for $899: I person not tested the caller 2024 model, but the Apollo Air Pro (2022) was a perfectly good scooter (6/10, WIRED Review); I conscionable don't deliberation it's worthy the precocious price. It goes up to 21 mph, and I was capable to thrust it for astir 13 to 15 miles earlier it died. You get each the accouterments, similar a beforehand airy and bell, and there's app connectivity to tweak settings to your liking. However, the app is required to unlock the Air Pro's existent speed—otherwise, you're restricted to 12 mph. I'm much miffed astatine the folding mechanism, which is much enactment than it should be. It besides doesn't accelerate excessively accelerated and, contempt its 39-pound weight, is uncomfortable to transportation owed to its heavy stem.