My new Electric Scooter

I am the proud owner of a brand new electric scooter. It has a 1500 Watt motor and can surpass the 50 km/h speed limit on the flat. It carries with it 60 kg of lead acid battery. It connects to standard domestic single phase power sockets, getting enough charge from 3 or 4 hours charging.

The range is reputed to be 50 km before full recharges are required, but my riding is pretty aggressive so I don't think I'll achieve that. I still need to find a good place at the work to plug it in and charge it up. Doing so, the cost to run it will be very small indeed. What I know not to do is to park next to the 3.7 litre SUV down in my work's underground carpark, whose driver is Mrs Grumpy and from which she can't see any precious little things.

I paid $3,000 for it, plus insurance, rego and helmut. I just need to learn how to be careful with it, zipping past all the cars going nowhere at traffic lights. It is a lot of fun.

The weight is just 127 kg, much more appropriate than the grotesque 1300 kg I could otherwise use to commute to work.

For more info on getting one in NZ, see EVT (I got a 4000e) or E Scooter. An Electric Motorbike is awfully tempting.