So in this huge box here that I've got is the Xiaomi M365 electric
scooter so it's a scooter that has a range of around twenty to thirty
kilometers so they claim. I find thirty a little bit hard to believe. So this
massive box has come all the way from China it looks like it hasn't been
damaged at all which is a good sign it came from gearbest now I'm a little
annoyed because I paid 449 us for this and literally a week later there's a new
coupon that came out that I found that you can get this for 399 so didn't have
to take any import tax on this which is really good it just was quite slow to
get here it took approximately 15 I think 15-16 days from the time I ordered
it to the guy dropping it off. So some spec's of this while I'm just getting it
out of here we've got a peak 500 watt front hub motor that the normal rating
is 250 Watts you can see that I have to do some part assembling of this here's
the front handlebars here they've got the brake lever and everything got
particular wrapping on there so there are the four screws and the tool we need
to put the handlebars in so there we go all unpacked like anyhow to fit it on my
desk here first impressions the build quality is really good the materials the
finish paint job the welds on it and that's all I had to assemble which was
this the top handlebar that I showed you before one of the screws is really hard
to screw into place this one right here and I can't get it right in because the
tool doesn't really give me enough room with the headlight there so I'm going to
have to find some tools I've got a home and put that in properly later the
charge we got here in the box it's ready to 42 volts 1.7 amps and they also
included this adapter here so you can extend from the valves when you need to
pump up the wheels they seem to be reasonably inflated at the moment I just
checked them but it probably would be a good idea to put some more air in there
so you don't give yourself any pinch flat there is an instruction manual
leaflet here which really isn't that helpful because it's all in Chinese
as to be expected so the rear axle here has a disc brake you can see now it's
not a hydraulic brake this is a cable one so the pull cable style and it does have
this little tiny kickstand which feels like it's made out of metal the build
quality overall really is quite good to this top here is rubber feels quite
grippy so you shouldn't slip off that if you have a look at the welds to where
the main housing joins up with the front very good welds there and there are
these reflectors too on the side both the front and rear wheels have these
plastic mud guards again the build quality of them is quite good this one
of course has the motor inside there which says on the side they're high
power brushless motor now getting these tires could be quite difficult now this
could be one of the weaknesses I feel of the scooter that if you get a flat it's
probably quite hard to change to remove that but there are some guides on
YouTube how to do that and you can source these tires apparently from
aliexpress there are some sellers that do have them but they cost around 25 usd
each so they're not exactly cheap so the front left side of it that's where the
charging port is it's got a rubber cap that covers that so that means that dust
water and other things shouldn't get in there and block it up and cause problems
later on now it takes five and a half hours to charge there's quite a long
time and Shoni does recommend that you charge it everytime after using it and
that way you've got maximum battery there so you're not going to get stuck
short with only say thirty percent battery now it's quite ingenious how it
clips into the rear mudguard where the ballast or the bowel mechanism you just
have to push that and flip that up and then the handlebars there are free but
you see that it clips into the back there that is made out of rubber locks
in place and then you're able to lift it up and walk up some stairs or put it
under your desk or you can't boot it it is quite heavy though 12.5 kilos means
it's not a light scooter the latching mechanism here to where you put the
handlebars out is really well-made you simply just pull up this lever to secure
the handlebars in place that locks that there's no way that's going to come down
on you so the controls are straight Ford on the left we have the brake lever
and to accelerate as this right here suppressing that's down once you kick
off you can accelerate using bat and to turn it on with the button here so
cycling through the various different modes that when you first power it on
you can tell me that I've got at the moment around 100 percent or 75 percent
battery the way that's flashing there that's the normal mode your standard
mode and I think it's pressing it twice quickly that then puts it into Eco mode
to get your maximum range but that limits the top speed to 100 sorry to 18!
kilometers per hour and in the normal mode it's 25 max now pressing it just
once there cycles the headlight on and off and this is the kind of power you
can expect out of that headlight it seems reasonable enough there that it
should light your way I mean it's not a super powerful light I give it count
because it would probably drain the battery too much and on taillight it's
on continuously when you have the headlights on and it's not that bright
you can see it is tiny too so not really that visible but it is better than
nothing and as you can see it flashes when you apply the brakes and then
pairing it offers just hold down the power button and you will hear a
confirmation beep telling what's off so when you plug it in to charge you get a
confirmation beep and the taillight will also pulse in and out to show you that
it's currently charging so connecting it up to the app is really easy just go
into play store you download ninebot it's all in English the Segway app and
it will tell you the battery levels the speed you are doing - if you happen to
run it when you're on it and your remaining mileage which is telling me at
the moment because it's still charging not at a hundred percent yet but it's
telling me I've got 26 kilometers there there are some other settings in here
most importantly would be your firmware update now my one this model that I got
from gearbest as mentioned is running the latest firmware so no problems there
don't need to update it but if you did have a dated one then it would prompt
you to download and update it now there is this thing here called cruise control
system which is quite handy it's disabled by default so enabling this
what that does you can see it's just telling me there is that when you hold
the button down for more than five seconds it will beep
and it will hold your speed which is great so you can continue on and as soon
as you tap the brake or the speed it will come off just like a cars cruise
control other things in there as well as the accelerator mode you can set that to
weak medium or strong so the stronger it is the more it will slow down as soon as
you take your finger off the throttle there it should hopefully recover some
of the battery percent so regenerative braking that it's got one thing I've
noticed they haven't tested it yet but it seems that deep brake it doesn't
exactly come on very strong but maybe it is like this by design but you can
adjust it you can see there is an adjustment thread there so if you wind
that out it should mean it should come on a little faster okay so here we go
first attempt now entering this one-handed because I'm holding your
gimbal which probably isn't the wisest so don't do this at home kids
so I'm ready turned on the button it did the beep and you need to kick off and
then apply gas so this is the maximum wheel lock here it doesn't give you a
lot but I think that's the safest kind of limit there so it's good that they've
done this any more than that and I would say your risk tipping over coming off so
the ground clearance isn't really that high the problem is if you go down the
curb there's a real high chance that you'll probably bottom out on one of the
curb stones the underside of it that'll scratch it but it could also mean you
come to a complete halt and that will throw you off the scooter so it is
really easy to ride it's just kick off and the balance of it's easy to get a
hang off I think anyone can ride on this he just press the accelerator where you
go if you're not happy with how fast you're going course he applied a break
or you just take your finger off the accelerator and then it will slow down
by itself from the resistance and the motor so it's not super fast but it does
feel adequate it feels fast enough on a notice that going up hills that it will
work or slow down a little but it does have plenty of talk behind a plenty of
grunt to make it up most gradients now when it does get quite steep then you
probably will have to step off and help push along to get started again if it is
very steep so far to summarize this this is awesome
loads of fun. I've had so much fun driving around town on this it's got
plenty of power I think sufficient for most people it's
not a speed demon it doesn't get up to scary fast levels where you feel like
always should ease off apply the brakes, no not like that
stability is really good because it weighs 12.5 kilos it's quite hefty that
added weight just makes it feel a lot more stable the way the tires on them
the fact that they've got inner tubes in them they absorb some of those bumps and
things makes it feel and give you confidence when riding and it is very
easy to ride as you've seen you just kick off on the accelerator or where you
go anyone can ride this so there's a couple of cons here my unit has
something going on with the brake pads perhaps or their brake mechanism it just
doesn't apply enough pressure now I have adjust at the cable I think I need to
tweak it again but most of the braking is coming from the front hub with the
resistance coming from the motor there so that will slow you down and it was
has got electronic ABS braking in there so we'll never lock up the front wheel
has been controlled which is a good security thing because if you lock up
the front wheel if you're someone that rides scooters then you know what can
happen boom boom you hit your face on the ground or maybe not your face but it
won't be pretty so that is good it gives you a lot of confidence running around
now ground clearance on the bottom is another problem I found that I tried to
jump down a curb and I didn't lift the front up enough or I wasn't going fast
enough it'll ground out I would lucky that it
only ground out a little on the bottom but if I'd hit it really hard and
full-on able to come to a full stop and I would have been thrown off the scooter
so this clearly is not for jumps or anything like that don't do any of that
kind of silly jumps and stunts. no it's going to end in tears if you're a kid
you want to try things like that I know I would have so don't bother with that.
Charge time yet once I trashed it from when I first got it was around fifty
percent to get to 96 percent was actually quite quick that took only
about an hour and a half but full charges around five hours the power
supply does get really really hot and you
that's really about the only cons I've found apart from the big one which is
the range their claim or 30 kilometers no no way no way with my weight 81 kilos
No way I'm I going to be able to get thirty one kms out of this I will be
happy if I can get around 18 but ideally just looking at the couple of kilometers
that I've done or was at 3 or 4 and the battery that I lost if I was
accelerating quite aggressively most of the time on this the whole time I think
it's only around 15 kilometers max I don't know where they got 30k from not
going to happen so if you want to do high mileage on this high case to your
working back or to school and back University make sure your trips are only
about 15k return otherwise you're going to get stuck somewhere you have to carry
that battery charger with you alright so I will be back with a follow-up video of
this because I think that I need to use this for a week or two and report back
on the kind of range I can get out of it but most importantly how it's holding up
is it going to start falling to pieces am I going to get pinched flats or flat
tires and things I'll update you on that thanks for watching I hope you liked
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