[kinos]

I owned an electric scooter a few months ago. It lasted only about two months before I put too much weight on the handlebars and permanently damaged the hub motor.

This was probably inevitably going to happen as the hub motor is constantly in direct contact with the ground, which means that a bad impact can dislodge a magnet.

I wanted to fix it myself, and the cost of the part would have had been almost the same price as just scrapping the scooter and buying a new one. Additionally, I had trouble going beyond about 5 miles, with the lights off and with conservative battery use, before running out of power.