Hi guys, as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines.
Today we are going to do some stuff that I think nobody had done on youtube before.
You may have noticed that we like two topics here on the channel – an offroading and
electric transport.
Today we’ll try to combine them together!
We’ll do a real offroading on an electric transport!
Yes really tough with dirt and swamps.
And our transport today is this newest 2x2 electric scooter Halten RS03.
And its going to be the hardest test for the scooter, frankly speaking I doubt that it
will survive it.
Though we’ll see.
Well Halten electric scooter.
Nowadays 2x2 scooters are becoming more and more popular cause they are considered as
the transport than can be used on offroading.
The main task today is to find out is it really so.
It is interesting how far from the good road we’ll be able to go.
We’ll start from asphalt, then move to an earth road, then rough terrain and then a
real offroading.
But first…Lets have a closer look at it!
The scooter is equipped with two motors 1200 watts each, in this way we have here all wheel
drive and total power 2400 watts.
There is a lithium battery 60 vols and 24 ah.
The frame and all the main pars are made of aluminum, it looks solid and durable.
Both wheels are equipped with hydraulic disk brakes.
The handle bar is standard – there are brakes handles, light buttons, volts gauge.
At the right the button to control the drive and the display that shows speed, battery
status and other important info.
Also the both wheels have spring suspension, they are designed to efficiently work on a
rough terrain with a rider up to 150 kilos weight.
By the way my weight is about 85 kilos, so its quite significant for our test.
As well as many analogs Halten has a foldable frame.
Of course you can’t take this scooter in a public transport for example, but when it
folded it is easy to put in into a trunk of a regular car and it doesn’t take much space
for storage.
Besides our scooter was thoroughly prepared for our tests, there are many improvements
but the most significant its completely waterproof now, so its ready to race!
Now one of the most important characteristic –its weight.
To weigh the scooter firstly I measure myself…then take the scooter on my hands and weigh it
again.
And now we have the result, the weight of the scooter is 38 kilos.
Well it is enough of theory lets move to the practice!
First of all this scooter is definitely not a toy, so the protection is a must.
And by the way do not repeat what we are going to do, it may damage your scooters, cause
our video is just an experiment and not a normal way to use the devices.
Lets start riding on an earth road in the forest.
And the first thing I noticed it’s a very brisk start.
Frankly speaking I am not greatly surprised, cause I know what such scooters can do, but
if you’ve never tried them….you can take it from me…you’ll be impressed.
Aggressive tires provide quite decent traction, so it is so comfortable to ride the scooter
here.
I think such earth roads – the best conditions for our Halten.
There may be a lot of roots on such roads, so the suspension system is necessary thing
and I should say it works quite well, lets see how it goes on roots.
On a little hummocks suspension absorbs it completely and you almost don’t feel it
when riding.
But lets see what we have on some bigger roughness.
Now of course you feel it, the suspension has the certain limits, but you still are
able to control the scooter and proceed the moving.
When you are going on a rough terrain you always should remember that any electric scooter
has not very big wheels, here they are 11 inches.
And they are quite small if we compare them to the bicycle for example.
So its always better to pass any large roughnesses and hummocks.
Well guys, now we need to test this thing on an asphalt.
The maximum speed according to the official specs is 65 kmh.
Lets try to measure it, taking into account that now have about 80% of the battery.
You may not see very well, but I managed to accelerate up to 54 kmh.
So I think the official specs are mostly correct.
By the way it is reasonable to use only rear wheel drive on asphalt, cause you don’t
need all wheel drive here besides you will save the battery.
Also I should mention the range… its about 60 km with this battery.
We are leaving the good road for the rough terrain, its just a wild field with hummocks,
lets try it here.
As you can see its able to move here, but frankly speaking it is not so enjoyable as
riding on flat earth roads.
Nevertheless the suspension and all wheel drive do a lot of good and our scooter passed
this test.
Its quite tiring to ride here for the long time, so lets move on, my friends.
Here we found the section of the forest road with some serious dirt and puddles.
And again I should admit the perfect traction, it is rather simple to handle the scooter
even in such conditions.
It is due to the aggressive tires I think, but mostly due to the all wheel drive.
By the way I tried to move with rear wheel drive here, but almost fell down, and damaged
one of the handles.
Unfortunately we didn’t filmed it, but undoubtedly all wheel drive is a great feature, if you
are going to ride in such conditions.
But I should remind you that such riding in puddles is possible because of the additional
water proofing so please do not do the same on standard versions.
Well Halten still is showing decent results, but we promised you a real offroading didn’t
we?
Lets try to find it.
Look what a beautiful brook!
I think you know what I mean.
Why do we need to ride the scooter in brook?
You may ask.
Well we promised to do a real offroading, so we are trying to our best!
Frankly speaking I have to help the scooter here, the brook is rather swampy, and the
wheels are too small for such conditions, but anyway I think it performs rather efficiently
here for an electric scooter.
Now we reached the real forest swamp and I can’t see any reasons that keep us from
trying our scooter here.
As you can see Halten can go even here.
Goes as far as possible of course.
There were some holes under water, and the scooter got stuck there, so I think here it
is the limit of the scooter.
After all I think its amazing results for an electric scooter.
But If it had bigger wheels it would have shown even more astonishing results!
It would be a real 2x2 electric motorcycle and I would test it with a great enthusiasm.
I hope soon we will see something like that.
Meantime we come back to the ground.
I should say it really proved to be rather capable on offroading, but frankly speaking
such scooters are cut out for good earth roads and asphalt.
Anyway we tried to show you all that these devices can do on a rough terrain, I hope
you find it useful.
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