How this site works

There is no test lab and no staff

Nobody here rides scooters for a living. We have not ridden any of these machines, and nothing on this site is presented as a test we performed. What the site does is one thing carefully: put the manufacturer’s numbers next to the arithmetic those numbers imply, add any independent test that exists, and record what the people who own them say goes wrong.

Where the specifications come from

In order of preference: the manufacturer’s own product page, then published independent testing — principally Rider Guide and ERideHero, both of which state their testing protocol — then trade and review coverage. Every number on every scooter page traces back to at least one of those, and the URL list is kept alongside the catalog in the repository that builds this site.

31 of the 55 scooters here carry a third-party tested range figure. Where one exists it is shown next to the claim and the estimate; where it does not, that row is absent rather than filled with a guess.

How the range estimate is worked out

Battery capacity in watt-hours divided by consumption: 25 Wh per mile for single-motor scooters, and 38 Wh per mile for dual-motor scooters that top 28 mph. The consumption figures come from Rider Guide’s published commuting band of 25 to 35 Wh per mile. It is an estimate, it assumes a rider around 165 pounds on mostly flat ground, and it is labelled as an estimate everywhere it appears. The long version is on the specs page.

Why no scooter here has a star rating

A rating is only published here if it comes with a citable, non-retailer-restricted source. Republishing Amazon’s star ratings outside its Product Advertising API is not permitted, and an uncited average feeding structured data is a false claim about real customers. No scooter in this catalog currently clears that bar, so none of them shows stars — and none of the guides is ordered by rating, because there is nothing to order on. Every guide names the measurable spec it sorts on instead.

Where owner experience comes from

From people who own these scooters and wrote up their experience publicly — long-term reports at a thousand miles or four thousand kilometres, failure accounts, and the arguments that recur in owner discussion. We do not write owner sentiment for a scooter whose owners we have not read: 46 of 55 entries here draw on owner reports, and the other 9 say on the page that their pros and cons are read off the specification sheet. 42 scooters carry a full owner-insight block.

What the rankings are based on

Nothing here is ranked by opinion. The listing sorts on estimated range, price, weight, top speed or watt-hours per dollar, and you choose which. The 9 guides are filters over the same catalog, each one stating the spec it is ordered on. The 46 head-to-head pages are generated from two rules — same-brand price-adjacent siblings, and the nearest-priced same-type rival — rather than hand-picked.

How this site makes money

It does not. There are no affiliate links, no retailer links, no sponsored placements and no advertising anywhere on this site. The prices shown are approximate snapshots taken at the last catalog refresh, for comparison between scooters — they are not offers and they are not links. Nobody has paid to be included, excluded or positioned.

What we get wrong

Specifications change without notice and manufacturers revise hardware mid-model-year, so a figure here can be right for one production run and wrong for the next. Prices move constantly. The range estimate is a simplification of a problem with many variables. Where we are aware of a gap — a missing photo, a model with no owner discussion collected yet — it is recorded in the backlog alongside the catalog rather than papered over.