Every scooter here shows two ranges

The gap is the product

A range figure printed on a scooter box is measured in the slowest ride mode, on flat tarmac, by a light rider who never stops at a junction. It is not a lie and it is not useful. Watt-hours divided by consumption gets closer, and it has the advantage of being checkable: both the pack size and the divisor are printed on the page, so you can redo the arithmetic and disagree with us.

That is why the range strip appears on every card rather than in a spec row nobody scrolls to. Hi-vis segments are the estimate, the hollow red outline past them is how far the claim reaches, and two scooters on two different pages are drawn to the same scale so the comparison works by eye. Of the 31 scooters with a published independent range test, the tested figure came in at 67% of the claim on average — which is roughly where the estimate lands too.

How scooters are sorted and where the numbers come from

Every machine lands in one of 5 riding categories — last-mile, commuter, long-range commuter, performance, off-road / hyper — assigned from the hardware rather than from how the brand markets it. A second classification answers the question that decides whether the scooter comes with you up the stairs or lives by the front door: carry up stairs, curb lift, rolls only. On top of those sit 9 filter tags, each matched against a structured field or the brake and lighting text, never against a marketing phrase.

Battery, motor, speed, weight, tires, suspension, brakes, IP rating and charge time are taken from the manufacturer’s own published specification for that model. Tested range comes only from named third-party testers who state their protocol. Prices are approximate snapshots from the last refresh, kept for comparing scooters against each other; they are not offers and there is nothing here to click through to.

Owner experience, and the label on it

The pros and cons on a scooter page come from one of two places, and the page says which. 46 of the 55 entries here draw on people who bought the scooter and wrote up what happened next in public — the thousand-mile reports, the stem that developed play, the controller that cooked on a long hill. 42 carry a full owner-insight block with its sources listed. The other 9 say plainly on the page that their pros and cons are read off the specification sheet, because there was not enough genuine owner discussion to summarise.

Nobody here rides for a living and there is no test track. What is written up is what other people reported, attributed as such.

What we leave blank

82 spec cells across this catalog are empty. Deck widths a brand never measured, hill grades it never rated, water resistance it never certified — those rows are absent from the page rather than filled with a plausible number. The same rule costs us a whole column: 24 of the 55 scooters have no independent range test, so they show no tested figure at all.

Not one scooter on this site displays a star rating. A rating needs a citable source that permits republication, retailer averages do not qualify, and an uncited average feeding structured data is a claim about real customers that we cannot stand behind. Nothing in this catalog currently clears that bar, so no guide here is ordered by rating either — each one names the measurable spec it sorts on instead.

Two people, and nobody has sent us a scooter

Two people, one garage, no showroom. There is no advertising on this site, no affiliate programme, no retailer links and no sponsored placement. No manufacturer or distributor has paid us anything, sent us a scooter, or seen a page before it went live, and none of them can buy their way into a category, a comparison or a guide. A brand shows up here because it makes scooters people buy — 18 of them do.

Running costs are ours. That is the whole business model, and it is the reason a scooter with a bad brake setup gets described as having a bad brake setup.

Scooter brands appear and vanish between refreshes

These 55 machines were last re-read on September 24, 2026. A pass re-reads every manufacturer page, picks up new models and new independent tests, re-snapshots prices, and drops anything discontinued. The 46 head-to-head pages are generated from the catalog rather than hand-picked, so they rebuild themselves with it.

Specs move between production runs, prices move weekly, and a brand can revise the hardware without changing the model name. If you spot a figure that no longer matches the maker’s page, tell us — corrections are the most useful mail we get.

Read further

• How we compare — the method in full, including the consumption figures behind the range estimate.
• All 55 scooters — the catalog itself, filterable by battery, weight class, motors, tires and water rating.
• Privacy — what the site collects, and confirmation that it takes no advertising money.
• Contact — corrections, missing models, and moved prices.