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    Quote Originally Posted by markauckland
    or come to the shop i work for and youll get a petrol scooter 50cc in a retro styling for 1695 with full 12 month warrenty or a 2 stroke just normal style scooter for 1695 again with full warrenty or 1795 for the 4 stroke model..with top box...but hey go spend four grand on an electric one lol

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    I haven't bothered with detailed calculations, but you'd have to weigh up the higher purchase price against the lack of ongoing costs such as oil, fuel, maintennance, belts, clutches and filters and plugs and such.

    Outright purchase price is not the be all and end all of any vehicle purchase...

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    true......
    Doesn't play well with others

    Pull Me, Nick Me, Try Me, Ban Me !!

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    NEW INFORMATION! Aff-man reports that "they will not stoppie"


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    1.9 litres per 100km......hmmmm

    vs only being able to go sweet FA distance then having to recharge the damn thing....

    then the cost of batterys is rip off....

    and the gayness factor of a scooter is high...but an electric one thats just verging on civil union

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    Mark just said something that made sense.

    Maybe that speshul ed work at lifan's chinky junk shop is working?

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    I think markauckland summed that up nicely.

    Scooters are ghey enough as it is. Why take away the actual reason someone would buy one....? Because they are ALMOST a real bike. FFS who wants to look at mobility scooters for upgrade parts anyway?

    "Damn just got smoked by granny... I need to upgrade my flux capacitor.."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster
    ............"Damn just got smoked by granny... I need to upgrade my flux capacitor.."
    We can do them....and Mr Fusion units!

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    Being electric, I wanna know if they're dangerous in the wet.

    And Mark, when did you grow up?

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    Kinda - i've had the rear out on them a few times in the rain.....the motors have instant torque and the factory tyres are shit!

    They are meant to be an all weather vehicle though.

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    Sounds like there are a few in for service / repair?

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    We have 2 for comparison/troubleshooting/demo purposes and 2 brand new untouched ones for sales - none of them are "real" customers ones in for servicing yet.

    There's only a half container load of them (20 i think) in the country at the moment, the importer is hoping they will take off and wants a service agent all set up b4 he sells them.

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    give you $2 for one

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    Quote Originally Posted by allun
    Range is 50-60km .....obviously depends a lot on usage, i.e. flat vs hilly, featherweight chick vs 2 guys 2 up, etc.

    Recharge time is around 4 hours and the cost for a recharge is 30c or so....that's where they get the 0.5cent per km running cost that's quoted on the website
    48V DC Hub motor, 1.5 kw cont, 2.3 kw max
    Batteries: 4 x 50 Ah SLA

    that would cost a bit more than 30c to charge. Maybe 40c. But it's still cheap.
    I note that the brushes in the motor last 10,000km the batteries 17,000km+

    1 hour discharge would be about 1.5kw. Sounds quite usable.

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    what are the rego, warant requirements?

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    Quote Originally Posted by paturoa
    what are the rego, warant requirements?
    It's limited to 50k for scooter reasons so probably cheap rego and no warrant?
    Dunno what the LTSA would have to say about max power of 2.3kw, should be 2.0kw max if they want to be 110% legal.

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