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Infinite Machine raises $9M to convince Americans to buy scooters (techcrunch.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't see how they're going to convince people to buy their scooters when they're over triple the price of a Honda Metropolitan...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

55 MPH top speed. 60 mile ~city~ range...

$10,000.

No thanks. Even a Surron L1E has the same performance and is a third of the price, and you'll look considerably less stupid riding it. And you can do wheelies. For $10k you could buy one of those and enough upgrade parts to rice it out to the point that it'll give some medium displacement combustion bikes a run for their money.

[–] SuperSpruce 2 points 1 day ago

And for the same money you could buy either a new middleweight sportbike that'll do 130+, or you could buy a few years old literbike that will easily triple the speed of this scooter.

Or, you could pay 1/5 of this price to get an e-scooter (of the stand-up variety) and get the same performance with a lower weight and smaller size.