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I don’t see how they’re going to convince people to buy their scooters when they’re over triple the price of a Honda Metropolitan…

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    55 MPH top speed. 60 mile city range…

    $10,000.

    No thanks. Even a Surron L1E has the same performance and is a third of the price, and you’ll look considerably less stupid riding it. And you can do wheelies. For $10k you could buy one of those and enough upgrade parts to rice it out to the point that it’ll give some medium displacement combustion bikes a run for their money.

    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 month ago

      And for the same money you could buy either a new middleweight sportbike that’ll do 130+, or you could buy a few years old literbike that will easily triple the speed of this scooter.

      Or, you could pay 1/5 of this price to get an e-scooter (of the stand-up variety) and get the same performance with a lower weight and smaller size.