So I have with me here another electric scooter from China that's called the
next drive I picked this one up from light in the box dot com it took five weeks
to arrive with UPS shipping now the scooter has acclaimed up to thirty
kilometer range under perfect test conditions of course just like my Xiaomi
me scooter it also has twenty five kilometer per hour maximum speed on it
but it weighs 7.5 kilos so it is a lot lighter than that one so in this review
here I'm going to go through the unboxing we'll get it set up apparently
you have to install the handlebars on it we'll check out the design and build
quality and then of course micro tests I'll test it out to sout the
acceleration how does it climb hills and slopes what kind of range I can get out
of it personally and then my final conclusion at the end of this video on
whether or not this is a decent scooter as you can see that these scooter is
well packaged up here with this polystyrene surround so in the Box you
get a user manual two handlebars the charger which is rated to twenty nine
point four volts and the plug on it can be easily replaced with one from your
own country and then an allen key for tightening up any of the bolts if they
loosen up over time at the top of the handlebars we have this nice big bright
LED I'll give you sample that in just a second and then here is where the
batteries are so the battery capacity is ten point four in this particular model
amp-hours and the handlebars you just got to screw them into place so
very easy to setup now the toys on this particular scooter are solid rubber ones
which are good in a way because we're not going to get any flats are we from
punches and things like that which is a problem on some of the other scooters
that have inner tubes the diameter of the wheels is rather small it's only 15
centimeters and located either side of the rear wheels there are in fact some
LEDs in here for brake lights the rear brake is of course a manual brake just
like a traditional scooter and you can see it does have a middle plate in the
inside of the mud guard here and the wheel hub is using ball bearings they're
your typical kind of size it looks like they're using just er ones you find in
skateboard wheels on the footrest you'll find
griptape just like a skateboard so down the bottom is a middle kickstand which
is spring-loaded and it shouldn't rattle around it does feel solid and here you
can see the front motor so that's 480 watts the maximum peak output on there
now the fault this is made out of metal it has to be of course and it's just a
plastic covering here for where the cable will go in to power that motor
there so you want to notice that there is no suspension on the front wheel here
now I thought it was going to come with that but it's just a hard for gear so no
shocks on this whatsoever I also wanted to show you to the way you collapse the
whole scooter is just simply pulling up here so the whole frame here this
mechanism that to unlock and latch it it's all made out of this metal bracket
here which is super strong and the way it latches in seems quite secure as well
so you just need to unlatch lunch that there and then the whole thing will just
collapse right down now and then lock in place so the controls are easy we've got
power on now if you double Tampa's that will change the gear there's two gears a
low gear in a high gear a single tap will then turn on the light and we have
the brake and then the accelerator here so find the front LED light to be a
little bit disappointing in fact quite disappointing it doesn't really light up
your way that much at all it's more so people see you and not illuminating the
path ahead of you they're taking a quick look at the dimensions of it so the
length of it hundred and seven centimeters approximately the handlebar
width is 41 centimeters and then our ground clearance that's around about 6
centimeters only you're on the top we have a speed readout and then our
battery this is right here the % there and if you double tap that will show you
that now I'm in gear to double tap again gear 1 so the brake lights can't be
turned on and off manually they're actually activated by vibrations in the
road they've got a little tiny battery either side and you can see from those
vibrations then the LEDs flash so it's a little bit of a gimmick there because
eventually those better gonna go flat of course and you'll
probably have to pull this off and then change them out the power ports located
just behind this dustproof cap now charging time is approximately four
hours so it's definitely a plug in and let it charge overnight job so the build
quality is okay but I did notice some imperfections in the fit and finish it's
certainly not up to the same quality as my Xiaomi or Segway electric scooter so
another stunning day here in dinya even though it is winter it's a nice 21
degrees so one thing I like about this scooter is it's very easy to sit up and
get started so what you need to do is place your foot here there's a little
latch there and then just drop the base down and it clicks in place so it's hard
to make out in camera but I'm in the first gear here I'm just gonna check out
the acceleration we can expect so you have to kick off first like the other
scooters you can't just accelerate straight away and you can hear that that
motor is a little bit more noisier than the other skills that I have tested out
like the show me or the Segway and that acceleration is quite slow so I'm going
to the second gear now here we go coming up to the top speed now 25 26 km/h let's
test the brake oh that is very poor that brake compared to the xiaomi in the
Segway
oh this is very bumpy going because of the lack of suspension here now I've got
about a 20 degree climb here let's see if it can handle this without me having
to kick now I have it in the first gear for this test whoa struggling no it's
not gonna be able to make it up this I'm gonna have to kick here front wheel
spins you can hear the motor struggling
so now when I test out a wet surface this is actually all wet damp this road
here at the moment go down and see how it handles
I've been crap off it
feels okay but I don't feel exactly as confident as I do on whoa whoa whoa on
the other ones yeah that's slipping a little so this scooter here is it more
at home on the flat currently topping out at 25 kilometers per hour at the
moment now I have a speed bump here let's see how I can do this without
crashing okay yeah you're just like a typical manual scooter lift up the front
wheel jump over it you can do that and the bottom wheel takes it quite well
there so I've made it to the end of lost rotors here in dinner which is a very
beautiful spot here you can see from the scenery and I've got about two three
bars left which means that is about approximately 60% battery because each
of those bars is five of them shows 20%
so I have two bars of battery left now which is between 20 and 40% and my range
so far well 15.7 km/h to get at least 20 K out of the scooter which is one of the
positives of this model here so I made it back into the office here in one
piece so the way the scooter handles isn't as good as the show me or the
Segway I've noticed it just doesn't give you that same level of confidence and
there's a big reason and the obvious reason why that is is because it's got
these tiny little tires on them so it has the hard rubber tires which is good
that means we're not susceptible and prone to flat tires like we are on the
show me but because there's so much smaller they just don't it doesn't
handle as well then I've noticed also that in the wet that it tends to slide a
little the front wheel and my wet test there with the tires those tiles were
quite slippery and it was kind of moving around a bit so it doesn't have the same
kind of level of confidence that you get on the other scooters there also I've
noticed that the acceleration not very good on this one
it is quite slow and the first gear it gets up to about 1314 to km/h so if
you've got younger children or teenagers or someone like that that you don't want
going too fast you can try to make me to skip them to use the first gear or when
they first test it out for example you've got a 12 year old that wants to
have a go then you can put it onto the first gear mode but I just kept it on
the second the whole time around and that seemed to go right maximum speed of
about 25 kilometers per hour the front light on here it doesn't protect your
head very well so it doesn't really light up what's ahead of you so not a
very good headlight that's on this the build of it the quality of the build is
not as good as the Segway or the Xiaomi but that's kind of obvious it's a
cheaper electric scooter here that we have now the mechanism here the metal
that they have used around the henge and everything feels very solid it's well
put together and I do like the way it collapses and you can easily just lock
it into place dad is good but the brake light on the rear is kind of cheap and
pointless because it's just got batteries in there and from the
vibrations it flashes the little LED lights on there and I believe that
probably after about six months that those batteries are going to go flat and
it's completely pointless really they will probably be better off just to put
some reflectors in there now the little tires yes okay bit of a con here but the
braking on this model is not good at all it takes a lot longer to stop than the
Segway or the show-me that I have reviewed and then there's a full-on
brakes pressing down as hard as I can on the rear here it still takes about twice
the distance of the shell me or my Segway to stop which isn't really good
it's almost borderline dangerous at times because you really have to factor
in when a car pulls out in front of it you out of a driveway or something then
you really need to think about I should start slowing down now whereas in the
other scooters you could wait a little bit and it might even be quicker just to
jump off the scooter the braking is really that bad on it which is probably
yeah it's definitely the biggest con with this one so the better life the
range turned out to be actually quite good because we've got 16 kilometers
with two bars left I believe you can get 20 to 21 kilometers range out of this
which is a lot better than my shell me or my Segway and the price 299 us means
it's a lot cheaper there but overall the way we recommend the scooter well for
the range yes for the price but I believe you'll be better off putting
your money towards this she'll me or the Segway because they are a lot
better scooters overall they just have the larger wheel so they handle better
they give you more confidence when you're riding and overall in general
just better scooters there thanks a lot for watching this review I do hope to
see you back with another 1 or 2 electric scooter reviews that I have
planned bye for now