Chris here with yet another electric scooter from NIU this is their kqi3 pro model which in
my time now testing it out I happen to believe is better than the xiaomi electric scooter 4 Pro and
it is around about a hundred euros cheaper at the time of me reviewing it here so it has a rear hub
motor 700 watts is the maximum Peak output from it it's got 9.5 inch tires that are 2.5 inches
wide now this scooter can handle climbs of up to 20 degrees the weight of it is 20 kilos and
it can handle Rider weights of up to 120 kilos The Handlebar here can collapse it's very easy
to do so it only just takes a few seconds it clips into the top there and you're able to lift up the
whole scooter which is quite convenient so you could place it in the boot or trunk of a car
charge time of the 484 watt hour battery is about six hours and you can see there's
a nice rubber cap that goes over where the charging port is and that keeps it protected
no water is going to get in there it does have an ip54 rating this particular scooter
it's good it has plastic mud guards front and back and a lot of plastic trim around it but
the build quality is excellent very good finish so our discs here are 120 millimeter mechanical
disc brakes good braking performance they are reflectors either side so there's one right here
on both sides and at the front two near the front wheel and we do have a tail light which has an
LED in there which is reasonably bright as you can see now at night the little kickstand does
support the Scooter's weight just fine so it is a 20 kilo scooter the weight of it and it can handle
Rider weights of up to a 120 kilos it has rubber on the top of the deck and it is nice and wide so
no problems fitting my feet on the deck here of the kqi3 pro so it's a rear-wheel drive scooter
other models like the xiaomi's are front-wheel drive and the idea of having a rear wheel one
means that you don't risk that slipping from the front wheel so maximum Peak output is 700 Watts
so disc brakes with the front you do have to be careful in the way that you don't brake too
heavily on this because there is no ABS anti-skid breaking system with the front wheel the braking
performance as you'll see later on is very good with the scooter like the other new scooters it
does have their iconic Halo light so that ring LED always on daytime running light and then a
powerful front LED headlight at night you can see it lights up The Path ahead of you it is
quite good the safety we get from that light and the rear tail light along with all of the
reflectors the only real complaint I have with this scooter is very minor it's that they didn't
use lock grips so these grips here they feel nice but they spin around a little bit which I do find
a little annoying so we do have a bowel for added safety the brake levers do feel good this is our
accelerator here that does have a bit of rubber on it for grip now it won't just work now you do need
to kick off first before you can accelerate which does make sense it's good for safety and then I'll
screen now the screen is a little hard to make out and direct sunlight but I can say it fine
but my camera cannot capture it really out here at the moment you can see at night though it is very
clear so we've got our battery gauge the speed Bluetooth connection and if you want to know your
exact battery percentage you can check it via the app which I'll show you later on in this review
the accelerator has a good feel to it so it is plastic but we've got a bit of rubber here
for grip so it's a thumb accelerator now if I press it now the scooter will not just take off
which is good for safety you do need to kick off first then accelerate and you'll be on your way
now the folding Mech here has a little security to it so you need to lift up this latch and then you
can drop it down once you do so you can then drop the handlebars right down and they clip into the
top of the deck there so here's our application it is very simple you do need to register sign up for
it there are some firmware updates for the kqi3 pro and you can see your ride stats we have right
information so you can see my previous rides right here so I did two rides there just over
two kilometers that was when I was just starting out testing and recording a little bit and then
a main big ride there for 10 kilometers you can see the time your average speed and I did end up
losing 31 battery for that 10 kilometers now I'm looking at with my ohmus here around approximately
40 kilometers now that's actually better than xiaomi's top end scooter the electric scooter
4 Pro so that's great to see that this one for me is turning out to be around about five maybe
37 kilometers more in range so it's not a huge amount but it is good and there's a little bit
more information about the the scooter so they are pushing out firmware updates so to do have
little fixes and improvements for it which is good to see so as long as you have a smooth surface
the ride is very smooth and it's comfortable The Handlebar height I wish it was a little higher for
my height but again it's comfortable and it's very smooth just cruising along like so now I
do have a couple of speed bumps ahead there is no suspension so it's relying just on those pneumatic
tires tubeless ones 10 inches well actually 9.5 inches to soak up some of the bumps and
that's going to be dependent on of course the PSI the pressure you're running those tires so
just popping up that front wheel going over that little speed bump not a problem it is quite smooth
climb test now so the kqi3 pro does have a peak of 700 watts and it can as they say
from their website handle 20 degree inclines this is approximately 25 even over and look at
this it's doing really well this is better than the xiaomi electric scooter 4 Pro that
I also reviewed and I've covered it in the channel it never got this far I had to start
kicking about 50 meters ago and look at this I might just be doing only 12 kilometers per hour
but it's going up this climb and that's the important thing and this is where I feel
the big key reason that makes this scooter better than the most expensive xiaomi
scooter is it just climbs so much better seems to have a lot more power and torque
the scooter does have regenerative braking so it can put back a little bit of that energy
into the battery so I'm going to get up to about 30 from here full-on braking
very good I'm really impressed and happy with the braking performance here on the KQ I3 Pro
I do again believe it is better than the xiaomi scooters however you need to be very careful in
the wet with that front wheel because we've got the disc brakes it's rather powerful you do not
want it to slip on you so I recommend that if you're in the wet you just apply a little bit
more caution there with that front and possibly just feather the lever too to ensure that's not
going to lock up on you foreign ERS I've made it to the end of the coast here and it has been
really Pleasant so there is no rattling noises coming from the scooter at all it is very smooth
as long as the road is smooth of course there is no suspension and just going down this I'm
doing currently 30 kilometers per hour that's about the real limit unless you go down maybe
a slightly steeper Hill or slope should I say than this but it is really a comfortable ride
and again I'll say it this is better than the xiaomi scooters I think new they've really done
it for these legal EU legal scooters this is probably one of the best you can get
and what about the range you can get out of it so with my 82 kilos and the few little climbs
I've done around here I'm looking around 40 kilometers the range which is better than
the xiaomi electric scooter for pro which for me was a little under that this model here is also
a hundred euros cheaper I think it has slightly better build quality to it it's certainly got a
better front headlight which is great for safety that's got that always on Halo daytime running
LED it's got a nice wide deck to it it's very comfortable smooth ride and overall the general
build quality is excellent great folding mechanism too very sturdy there I like the fact that it
climbs so much better than the xiaomi scooter 2. I didn't have to start kicking which I had
to do with the xiaomi scooter this one handles the climbs so much better it just seems to have
a lot more power even though they're both rated at 700 Watts this motor seems to have a little
more torque the only cons for me they are pretty minor well they're grips here they're not lock
grips so they spin around I don't particularly like that it's very easy to fix that and I hope
that they themselves knew fix that the front wheel is something that if you ride a lot in the
wet you're going to have to be careful that you don't break too heavily with the front disc there
because you've got that risk of it slipping out so that's just one thing you need to bear in mind to
be extra careful in the wet with any of these scooters as well because of that system there
it doesn't have like an ABS front brake that the others do having a front wheel motor it doesn't
slow down as fast as this could in the wet so it's just one little area there apart
from that the build quality it's cheaper than the xiaomi it climbs better it's a really good
ride quality scooter here from New thank you so much for watching my review of the kqi 3 Pro