well it turns out not that much it actually uses less power than my gaming PC but I think that
says more about how inefficient these machines have gotten rather than how little the scooter
uses but anyway this is my Apollo City Pro and I wondered how much electricity I used riding it
on a daily basis which should take some simple maths to figure out starting with how much it
takes to charge I could have easily looked at the battery capacity on the manufacturer website but
the capacity doesn't necessarily tell us how much electricity will be used when charging it that's
because no process is 100 efficient so while charging some of that energy will be expressed in
the form of heat and anyone who has plugged one of these into the wall knows that they can get quite
warm so to find out how much it actually takes to run this thing I use my trusty power meter taking
just shy of six hours to charge we see the light go green on the power brick the meter reports
0.935 kilowatt hours of energy used which is equivalent to about an hour and a half of gaming
on my computer 45 minutes of running the space heater driving an electric car for a few kilometer
or running your dryer for just 20 minutes so that's for a full charge I only have to ride about
nine and a half kilometers a day for my commute so I get an average about 36 kilometers per charge
on this scooter so after some math I consume about 0.247 kilowatt hours a day so all those
comparisons I said earlier just like cut them into quarters but that might not resonate with everyone
what I think does is the cost how much does it actually cost to ride this thing it's it's not
actually here I don't really have the space for it it's a bunch of crap over there but anyway we
already know how much it takes to charge we just need to multiply it by the cost of electricity so
here in BC the base rate per kilowatt hour is 9.5 cents and I could just use that but I want to be
as Fair as possible so I went ahead and looked at my hydro bills for 2022 and calculated the
average paid per kilowatt hour which includes an up charge after a certain threshold daily minimum
charges and taxes all said the average cost per kilowatt hour for me was 11 point eight cents
so that's 11.8 Cents by our 0.935 kilowatt hours actually I think we're gonna just for the sake of
argument let's just round it off to 0.95 kilowatt hours so 11.8 Cents by 0.95 kilowatt hours gets a
whopping total of 11.2 cents per charge that's right an average range of 36 kilometers per
charge for just 11 cents but let's take it a bit further my commute is on the shorter side and as
it turns out the median commute in Vancouver is actually a round trip of 14.8 kilometers so
divide our full charge cost of 11.2 Cents by the average range 36 kilometers and we get a cost of
0.3 cents per kilometer multiplied by 14.8 and the average commuter will be looking at a daily
electricity cost of 4.6 cents which is about 92 cents a month or for a year of commuting 11 and
8 cents so that's just commuting to work five days a week for 48 weeks because most people have a few
weeks off every year but let's say you're happy to use your scoot outside commuting like I am maybe
an average of 25 kilometers a week for 52 weeks adds an additional four dollars and five cents
giving us a total of 15.13 Canadian bucks let that sink in 15.13 will take you to working back every
single day along with getting you around outside of work for groceries visiting friends or whatever
that's one Uber ride like one way you're walking back that's ridiculous like I was actually shocked
by how cheap it is and to top it off this isn't even an efficient scooter single motor scooters
will actually knock off about 30 percent from that so in comparison the Apollo City Pro taking that
.935 kilowatt hours my ninebot Max used just shy of 0.6 kilowatt hours and it gets a similar range
but all that being said the energy here in BC is notoriously cheap we get the vast majority
of our electricity from dams which is not only a relatively cheap way to generate electricity
it's also pretty clean so let's translate that cost to other places around the world
so me in Vancouver that's 15 13 Canadian which is about 11 28 USD a year just 500
kilometers South in Oregon you'll pay around 15.25 and on the other side of the continent
in New York 29.82 over in Asia the Japanese will pay about 4 316 Yen while Koreans may
expect a bill not too far for myself of 14 858 won in the UK that'll be 51 pounds and
29 Pence and across the English Channel you may pay around 41 to 39 Euros in the Netherlands well
up in Denmark it will be bumped up to around 64.21 and that's actually around the price I
thought it would be around 60 or something like that so even there in Europe in Denmark one of
the most expensive places to get electricity it's still pretty decent and on the extremes
you'll find many small island nations such as the Solomon Islands where the lowest estimate
will be about 944 Solomon Island dollars or 115 28 USD so all of those numbers are based on on
the commute here in Vancouver that average of 14.8 there are so many variables that are
going to change that price that's the cost of electricity efficiency of the scooter weight
of the Rider riding style topography and many other factors but at the end of the day granted
you don't live on a small island that needs to import coal and gas to produce that electricity
these Nifty Little Machines are incredibly cheap to run which of course doesn't include
the cost and upkeep of the scooter which will be the subject of a different video so if you
want to see more get subscribed and with that my name is Nick thanks for watching foreign