Scooter advise for hills.

mrsr71

I live on a hill with a 12% grade. I’m looking for a scooter that can handle this with no issues.

Can someone with experience with hilly terrain recommend a scooter for me? Price is not an issue if it can climb. I weigh 155lbs.

MichaelKelley

I have the Kaabo Wolf King and it goes up hills very well. A 12 percent wouldn’t effect the speed much at all. Especially with your weight. I weigh the same and can go up 35 to 45 degree hills at 35mph. I paid 3300 with tax.

shooflyshoo

My driveway is a 17% grade and my old scooter with a 2000w single motor can barely get up it after most rides. I definitely think that you are going to need a dual motor scooter.

chuck

Agree with @shooflyshoo, dual motors would help a lot for a 12% grade scooter. Our test hill is exactly 10% grade and our test riders are 165 lbs. Nearly all scooters can make it up, but some smaller, single motor scooter are crawling at that incline. The more powerful single motor scooters (₁₀₀₀ watts) make it up, and just slow down a bit. If you have certain scooters in mind, happy to give you full specs beyond what you can find on our website.

Liv0life

chuck What about 800W ones? Have you looked at the Mantis 10 Solo Plus?

PaulN

Liv0life
A 60 volt Mantis 10 pro would have zero issues going up most any average hill even in single motor mode on in gear 3 with a 175 pound rider on it. It would actually accelerate, I own one, so i can say this with experience. I’m pretty sure Kaabo has also electronically limited the top speed on them to 60 to 65 kms/hr (40 mph) or they would easily surpass that speed in 2 wheel mode. Maybe to help sell the Wolf models at the higher price? Your at full speed in just a few seconds and then it just tops out, not for lack of power though.

drshorter

Hi there. I’m new on the site but I’m loving ESG videos, discussions, etc. Thank you for this resource. After spending many hours researching my options, I feel like it might be quickest to simply list my situation and see what the pro’s think.
• My campus where I teach is ALL hills. UCLA is literally built in a valley. Uber and Lime scooters slow down a bit but at least keep moving. I’m seeing a lot of reviews say some scooters will slow to a crawl or even need pushing. I definitely want to avoid that. On any trip on campus I will be going both uphill and downhill a lot. (Sorry can’t find a hill grade for UCLA to help you know the numbers).
• I’m usually between 200 and 210 lbs, 6′1″, size 14 shoe so deck size seems a bit important
• Definitely would like to fold up to put in my car and then only use it for campus a couple days a week, so not daily use at all, rarely in the rain in LA, but locking up or bringing into the building would be possible.
• I have both the Levy and the GoTrax G4 in online shopping carts thinking they might be good affordable options under 700, but I’d be willing to go up to 800 or so if there was a clear winner for great on hills for a guy around 200 with speed capability over 18 mph and foldable/portable. Again, really appreciate any thoughts at all, even if someone just writes a scooter name or model and I’ll do the research from there. Hope you are all well! David (UCLA professor tired of looking for rental scooters around to get quickly across a huge campus of hills).

DrScootLittle

drshorter
I’m going to go outside the box and the budget a little bit on this one.

The number one scooter for hill climb speed vs portability is the Unagi model one (dual motor version).

I’ve been using it to last-mile quite a bit lately. I feel comfortable chucking it in the car because it doesn’t have any sharp edges, and it’s really light. It’s also very clean looking, so it’s my #1 choice for sneaking it into places like dentist/doctor visits.

It’s also the only scooter I’ve ever done a weighted-hill-climb test with. Check out the performance at different weights (all were with a newly minted, freshly-charged dual-motor Unagi model One. I had a backpack full of weights for the heavier runs)

chuck

Thanks for the nice message and glad our content is helpful. No scooter at that price is going to crush on hills, but getting a slightly more powerful motor will help a bit. Check out the Emove Touring. Suspension, deck size, power, and price are about as good as you can get for $900. Also Voromotors, the company that sells this model is based in LA.

drshorter

Thank you for adding in your perspective and data! I love data. That said, I unfortunately already bought an Emove Touring by Voromotors. I wish I hadn’t. Just the worse customer service; really felt like it was some shady operation ran by one guy and a team of people who didn’t care about customers or even scooters for that matter. I saw the Unagi Model One too. I should have waited and seen your post. Oh well. The Touring is heavy and won’t fit in my sports car easily. I hate buyer’s remorse. If anyone else is comparing brands I can definitely say bad things about Voromotors. Though, as for performance, the scooter hauls ass and seems like it will do the trick.

RICARDOH

drshorter look into the vsett brand the 9 and 10 should handel what need and then some