{"id":314,"date":"2022-11-03T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfridaydeals.co.uk\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2023-09-19T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:25:02","slug":"electric-scooters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfridaydeals.co.uk\/technology\/electric-scooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Scooter & Electric Bike Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ManFew things feel as exciting as riding an electric scooter<\/a> or e-bike<\/a>, making you feel as though you\u2019re starring in your own version of Back To The Future<\/em>. Rather than Marty McFly\u2019s hoverboard, however, these are scooters and bikes that have electric batteries, thereby allowing you to move from place to place whilst making very little effort.<\/p>\n

Deciding on the right one to buy can be a big challenge, especially when you consider just how many of them there are on the market. That is where this buying guide comes in, helping you to figure out the right way forward on your electric scooter or e-bike buying journey. Just as with the scooters and bikes themselves, we\u2019re aiming to make things as smooth as we possibly can.<\/p>\n\n

Shops With Electric Scooter Offers<\/h2>\n
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Electric Scooter Buying Guide<\/h2>\n

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Generally speaking, we\u2019re absolutely spoilt rotten in terms of the technology that is available to us. It is one thing to be able to turn on the lights without even standing up, courtesy of smart speakers, but something else entirely to be able to move from one place to the other without even having to engage our leg muscles. That is what electric scooters allow you to do, however, thanks to the manner in which they do the hard work for us and yet we still get where we want to go.<\/p>\n

Electric bikes have shot up in popularity in the last few years of course, but even they require you to move your legs to propel them forwards. Electric scooters, meanwhile, can be used to travel short distances with little-to-no effort, with only the hand being used to tell it you want to move and the scooter doing the rest. Just because they\u2019re such relatively simple things doesn\u2019t mean that there isn\u2019t plenty we can ask about them to figure out which one is the best for us, as you\u2019ll discover here.<\/p>\n

How They Work<\/h3>\n

One of the most important questions that you\u2019ll doubtless want an answer to is how, exactly, electric scooters work. In reality, it is actually quite easy to get your head around how the machines operate, thanks to the fact that the battery is linked up to the motor by some wires. When you press the throttle on the scooter, the battery sends power to the motor, which moves the wheels and sends the device moving forwards. After it has begun its forwards journey, you then use the break to slow them down or stop them.<\/p>\n

The sheer manoeuvrability of electric scooters is such that they don\u2019t have a reverse function. Instead, you can use the handlebar to turn them around with an incredibly tight turning circle, allowing you to head off in the direction that you\u2019ve just come from. If you wanted to you could even get off it, pick it up and turn it around, with the vast majority of the devices being light enough to allow such a quick change of direction. Whilst there are some small details that allow for variety, that is how most electric scooters operate.<\/p>\n

Charging<\/h3>\n

\"ElectricElectric scooters can be charged from your home power sockets, so all you need to do to charge them is remove the protective cover on the charging port, plug in one end of the cable and plug the other end into your power outlet at home. Once you\u2019ve plugged in the scooter, the actual charging process will take a different amount of time depending on the model that you\u2019ve bought. As an example, a 2.6 Ah battery with a 1 Amp plug will take about 2.6 hours to charge to 100%, whereas a 5 Amp plug would take 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The exact charger that you\u2019ll have will depend on the unique scooter, but they might use a USB-style charger, a DC coaxial plug or XLR charger, as an example. Each has its own quirks and some are more common than others, but they\u2019ll work in much the same way as each other. The most important thing is that you get power to the lithium ion battery that allows your electric scooter to run. The charger will warm up during the charging process, but this is entirely normal and nothing to worry about, provided it doesn\u2019t get too<\/em> hot.<\/p>\n

Range<\/h3>\n

Perhaps one of the most crucial questions when it comes to buying an electric scooter is how far it can go. This question leads to another question, of course, which is how far you\u2019ll need it to go. Once you\u2019ve figured out how far you\u2019ll require your electric scooter to travel, you can then begin to look into the size of the battery available on the electric scooters on the market and make an informed decision about which one you think will be best for you. The bigger the battery, the further it will be able to go on one charge.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re only needing the electric scooter for short journeys around your local area, smaller and more cost-effective batteries will be absolute fine for what you need. If, on the other, you\u2019re planning to ride it quite a distance, for commuting to work, say, then you\u2019ll need to look at scooters with larger batteries. This is also true if your journey is short but will ask a lot of the scooter, such as travelling up hill or over rough ground. The less you use the throttle and the slower you travel, the longer the battery will last.<\/p>\n

Electric motors have a \u2018rated\u2019 power as well as a peak power outage. The higher the wattage of the battery, the more it will be able to produce power and therefore climb hills or provide decent acceleration. The heavier you are as a person, the more powerful you will need your battery to be in order to allow it to carry you at decent speeds or uphills. Most e-scooters will have a typical range of 15 to 20 miles, with 20 to 30 miles being the one up from that. Premium models can even travel as far as 50 miles before needing to be re-charged.<\/p>\n

How Fast Can They Travel?<\/h3>\n

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The majority of electric scooters have a maximum speed of 15 miles per hour. That might not sound like a massive speeds, but when you consider that you\u2019re protected only by a helmet, it is a pretty decent speed. Some models can go a little bit faster, reaching as much as 18 mph, with others still able to hit the dizzying heights of 40 mph before topping out. Whilst it might seem cool to be able to go at decent speeds, the reality is that you\u2019re travelling on a device with small wheels, making fast speeds quite dangerous.<\/p>\n

The other thing to think about is the fact that electric scooters that go at fast speeds need bigger batteries as well as more powerful motors. This not only means that they\u2019re more expensive but also that they’re much heavier, which can problematic for some people. There are several factors that dictate how quickly you\u2019ll be able to travel, with the following being key ones:<\/p>\n