this is a niu kqi2 an electric scooter that goes up to 25 kilometers per hour it has a 365 watt
hour battery located right in here it's got an excellent build quality when you factor in the
price of the scooter that it's 499 euros yet the build is impeccable now this particular model here
has 10 inch airflow tyres that are 2.3 inches wide it's all powered by a 300 watt motor that can peak
at 600 watts with a maximum speed of 25 kilometers per hour it also has an application that i'll run
through in this in-depth review i'll let you know what it's like to ride and all my pros
and cons out of the kqi2 so what do we get inside the box with the scooter well we do
have a spare grip tape here there's a tool for screwing in the handlebar and instruction manual
and our charger now the first thing i noticed about the scooter as soon as i pulled it out
of the box is the finish and the build quality is impeccable it's really good now they do use
a lot of plastics so with our mud guards on the outside but behind that it does have a metal frame
now it has an ip54 splash and dust resistance a nice wide deck with plenty of room to fit my feet
on it and a kickstand that is sturdy and it hasn't fallen over yet this good in my time now using it
so we're located within the deck here you will find a 365 watt hour battery that is
good for up to 40 kilometers range but that's of course using the low powered mode the kqi2
does have reflectors all over which is really good for safety and the rear tail light here
is nice and bright when you do brake it does get a little bit brighter and overall it can be seen
and is nice and visible so adding to our safety when you ride about on the scooter handlebars
do have side reflectors on them and there's a reflector at the front and we have this halo
design with the front headlight now it has one of the best headlights i have ever seen in a
scooter and even an e-bike it is really good it's nice and bright and it sets out quite a
rectangular more squarish kind of light beam too from its projector lens that it does have and it's
always on that halo light 2 which i think actually looks really good and it's great for safety again
this model is rear-wheel drive which i do prefer i think it's the safest option
front-wheel drive scooters like the xiaomi's i do find to be a little bit more dangerous
this model here has a 300 watt motor that peaks at 600 watts and it is running on a 48 volt system
good tires on this model too they are from cst now these are 10 inches the diameter of them and 2.3
inches wide so a nice wide tire and they do have a street tread pattern on them which is directional
to help push away the water so right here we do have a front drum brake and the rear brake that
one is an electric brake which actually does work quite well i'll give you a demo of that later on
in my braking test the latch mechanism here does feel safe and secure there's no playing movement
with the handlebars and the headset right here so just to release it and fold down this handlebar
you simply need to pull up a little security on it then pull that down and the whole handlebar will
just drop down like so the handlebar then latches into the mud guard right here and it's quite
strong it's not like the xiaomi scooters where the mud guards are often the weakest point of them
where they do break i see a lot of people riding around with no rear mudguard so that is where you
can then lift it right up and it just weighs about 17 almost 18 kilos so the weight isn't too bad
the charge port is located just down from the handlebars there is a really good
nice rubber gasket that goes over it and it's a very strong
charger plug too the charge time is about seven hours to fully charge it
now my only real complaint with the scooter is this the lack of lock grips so these grips they
tend to move around a little bit which to me is a little frustrating i mountain bike a lot i'm
used to lock grips and i just don't want grips that move around now we've got a bell right here
that's the lever of course for the front brake but also activates that rear electric brake
and here is to accelerate now the screen it's nice and bright and you can actually read this display
in direct sunlight so here it's flickering a little bit that's just on camera it's something to
do with my shutter rate my settings there and our power button so you connect it up with bluetooth
to the application where you can see your mileage on it all sorts of information and i'll run over
that now just quickly what you can expect out of the app this app is basic it's straightforward and
it's very easy to use so you can see my remaining battery percent it does tell me that i should be
able to get 12 kilometers more and underwriting record here let's take a look so my ride from
today ended up being 19 kilometers not bad with 30 battery lift so that's why i say that i should
be able to get at least another eight kilometers maybe nine more and get around 28 or 25 kilometers
depends on your weight and writing conditions there of course so writing stats you can see
a little bit more information on that too max speed average speed and under this tab here that
is where we can get firmware updates i've had two already the energy recovery so this is the
regenerative braking can set that to different levels i've just accidentally lost that
bluetooth connection to the scooter which is sitting outside so you do need to be paired up
in order to see that change the unit of speed and custom mode is where you can set your own uh speed
limit with it so maybe you've got a child that's going to be riding on this that's say a 12 year
old or something you don't want them going over 12 kilometers per hour you can set that there you can
see the number of battery cycles and if you're going to go there you do have a gps tracking
so you can track your trips there and i'll give you a little bit more information too with that
so it's a straightforward app and i do like all the features it does have and you can see battery
cycles which is great if you're gonna be buying a used one and what is it like to ride now so
there's plenty room for my feet on the deck here no problem with that now where we have the rear
mudguard it looks like it might get in the way but it doesn't the kickstand it feels high quality
this whole scooter as i mentioned before is just screaming quality and for the price tag it's very
good too what they do offer with the finish of it so you just need to kick off now when you first
start riding it it will be in the smart eco mode which is a low speed mode so 15 kilometers max
only so you just kick off and then apply of course the accelerator here and then i can safely get up
to now 25 kilometers per hour which is the maximum speed now the acceleration is smooth it's nothing
groundbreaking it's good for this type of legal scooter here in europe so the ride very smooth
thanks to the 10-inch airfield tires they're tubeless they should be puncture resistant
small patch a rough road just ahead we'll see how it handles it and a
small climb that's about 15 10 to 15 degrees so it's going up this
just fine slowing a little with the climb down to 18 17 kilometers instead of 25
that's all right now it does have that peak output of 600 watts but most of the time it
will be running at 300 so just wanted to mention too that with the display you can tell the battery
more or less because it's got five little bars there so each one of those five little
dots or squares represents 20 battery life now the scooter is perfect just for cruising along here on
smooth surfaces so this pathway isn't bad at all i don't need full suspension for it but if you get
onto anything a little bit rocky you are certainly going to feel it because it doesn't have any
suspension now with the accelerator there is no cruise control on it so if you hold it down it's
not going to maintain the 25 kilometers per hour which is the eu legal limit here as soon as i take
my finger off it it then starts to slow down with the regen breaking which you can adjust so they're
regenerative braking you've got three different level settings so the light medium and strong
then the climbing performance so what i'm climbing up now is about 10 degrees the gradient here this
incline so it's not too steep for it and i'm able to get up this actually at about 25 kilometers per
hour which is very good i'm going to move over to a very steep climb which is my climb to spot 25 30
we'll see how the k q i2 is going to handle it and it's going to write 20 kilometers per hour so far
and 19. so it's slowing a little down to 17 16. i do have a bit of a headwind too as well
here that motor is struggling so 25 30 degree climb here yes just can do it now at nine
but not so good now this is what i expected because it's not a super powerful scooter so
for this you are going to have to kick a little and it will really burn through that battery too
with such steep climbs braking test now so from this post here full brakes
not bad at all for a drum brake at the front and then a electric brake for the rear so
it's just using that motor and of course i do have the regen on so when i'm not
pressing the accelerator and going downhill it's going to regenerate a little bit
of energy and help to charge the battery a tiny little bit
and a range of the kqi2 so i'm down to 50 battery now and i've covered 14 kilometers so i'm looking
at a possible 28 kilometer maybe 30 if i use the lower power mode on this so i've just been burning
around full accelerator and using the highest power seating so up to 25 kilometers per hour
too so if you're way lighter than me i'm 82 kilos you should be able to get more range and if it's
mostly on the flat then you better get even more so i think realistically you're looking around
30 kilometers with this model which is quite good now one of the things i really like about the kqi2
here well the build quality is excellent it's absolutely top notch with this model you cannot
fault it everything has a really high quality materials on it even though yes it's got
plastic on the outside here but it has a metal and a frame there is no play with the front handlebars
the mechanism to fold it is really good so you just pull up on here pull that down and then it
clips into place and you can lift it up and put it into the boot of a car lift it up stairs whatever
so it is around 18 kilos it's not a bad weight for a e-scooter like this and
the lights on it really good probably the best i've seen on an e-scooter yet they are excellent
plenty of reflectors so they're thinking about safety there too the brakes do work really well
and we can go up climbs that are around about 15 degrees maximum without losing too much
speed anything that's over that about 15 to 20 degree gradient climbs is when you start to slow
down a little bit and you do notice that but that's what you'd expect out of a scooter like
this it's only got a 300 watt motor that can peak at 600 so the charge time is about seven
hours and that's pretty standard there as well for 365 watt hour battery what are the things i don't
like then about the kqi2 well very very minimal they don't have lock grips on them so these grips
here they're spinning around and that kind of annoys me a little bit i would swap them out and
put some lock grips on not hard to do very easy fix the other is there is no cruise control so
when you're holding that down and you want to just maintain the same speed like other models offer
don't actually have it with this one i can't find it in the application now the application is also
very good so it's really just two super minor cons there for the 500 euro price this sells for
it is a fantastic e-scooter so thank you so much much for watching my review here of the kqi2