One of the comments inspired me to hill test my vx5 pro more thoroughly since that part was left out of the video. I took it up the two steepest hills in my neighborhood, length and angle of incline courtesy of the new york cycle club. The first was ~500 ft long with an average grade of 8.4% The scooter climbed it with no apparent struggle. The speed (according to the vmax app) didn’t dip below 10.5mph (except when I ran into a pothole at the end) and peaked around 12mph. The second hill was both steeper and significantly longer, coming in at .34 miles long at average grade of 9.4%. The parts at the beginning and end were steeper, i would guess at least 10% though I didn’t have the tools to measure it exactly. This one was harder, but the scooter made it up, ranging from 9.7-11mph the entire way. Though it was slow, it never felt like it was in danger of giving out or losing forward momentum. The battery was at 100% when I hit the first hill, and 85% when I hit the second hill. Would definitely not recommend attempting a hill as steep and long as the second one with less than half battery. Speaking of which, the exercise drained my battery much faster than a regular ride; the battery was at 59% after 5.5 miles when I got home afterwards, projecting a range of about 13.4 miles. Earlier today, I rode 14 miles over more level ground and still had 30% battery when I got home, projecting a range of 20 miles (I have the ST model, which is only supposed to give you 17 miles of range- I expect the inflated number is due to the fact I’m going off the app’s odometer numbers which are no doubt optimistic). I did both rides at as close to top speed as I could accounting for traffic lights/pedestrians and such. In other words, definitely no powerful hill climber but able to get the job done when called upon and definitely impressive for the $500 price tag. Overall, I’m very happy with the scooter, especially considering the low price tag. Hope this helps!
Mitchell, those squinty eyes in the sunlight give me Napoleon Dynamite vibes haha great review. I just hit over 1000 miles on my MaxG2 yesterday! Cheers!
Great review! Thumbs up to VMAX for its app perfection. In contrast, I found the KQi3 Max so aggravating that I got rid of the scooter after a year then passed on the 300X when it it was released. Loved the quality, style, ride and mechanical features... despised the app. The VMAX VX2 Pro GT replaced my KQI3 Max, where it's used as a "car trip" vacation scooter. Such a great, compact, range-y scooter for when you don't want to deal with the weight or bulk of a dual motor sport scooter.
Can't wait for you guys to review the VX2 Extreme and see how it compares to the Pro! I love a simple, lightweight scooter that has great range, acceleration and hill climbing.
Will you be performing a hill test review on this VX5 Pro? That's actually the part I'm most interested in. Thank you for all the great work your channel does!
Thanks so much. Sadly, hill climb was missed on this review. In the future the plan is that I will test pretty much all of the scooters, so we have consistency, and Mitchell will do other types of content. I don’t know that we’ll have time to go back and pick up some of the numbers, but I’ll try. -Paul
I have had my vx5 pro for only a week, but so far the hill climbing is way better than I expected. I live in a very hilly part of NYC and my commute to and from work requires tackling some lite to moderate hills and I’ve had absolutely no problems. On the steeper slopes, it still usually goes 13/14mph all the way up- there’s one in particular that’s a third of mile long that I thought would be an issue but the scooter topped it no problem. This is all for a scooter that has about 60 miles on it so far though, and I don’t think I’ve tried it on any hills steeper than 5 degrees incline, so pinch of salt and all that
Your comment inspired me to hill test my vx5 pro more thoroughly. I took it up the two steepest hills in my neighborhood, length and angle of incline courtesy of the new york cycle club. The first was ~500 ft long with an average incline of 8.4 degrees. The scooter climbed it with no apparent struggle. The speed (according to the vmax app) didn’t dip below 10.5mph (except when I ran into a pothole at the end) and peaked around 12mph. The second hill was both steeper and significantly longer, coming in at .34 miles long at an average incline of 9.5 degrees. The parts at the beginning and end were steeper, i would guess at least 10 degrees, though I didn’t have the tools to measure it exactly. This one was harder, but the scooter made it up, ranging from 9.7-11mph the entire way. Though it was slow, it never felt like it was in danger of giving out or losing forward momentum. The battery was at 100% when I hit the first hill, and 85% when I hit the second hill. Would definitely not recommend attempting a hill as steep and long as the second one with less than half battery. Speaking of which, the exercise drained my battery much faster than a regular ride; the battery was at 59% after 5.5 miles when I got home afterwards, projecting a range of about 13.4 miles. Earlier today, I rode 14 miles over more level ground and still had 30% battery when I got home, projecting a range of 20 miles (I have the ST model, which is only supposed to give you 17 miles of range- I expect the inflated number is due to the fact I’m going off the app’s odometer numbers which are no doubt optimistic). I did both rides at as close to top speed as I could accounting for traffic lights/pedestrians and such. In other words, definitely no powerful hill climber but able to get the job done when called upon and definitely impressive for the $500 price tag. Hope this helps!
@@nostalgiakid100 I really appreciate you doing that. There are plenty of free inclinometer apps, which is how I found that my hills are 6 to 9 percent each depending on where. Unfortunately the hill is the only way back from where I'm coming from and it's probably at least 3/4 of a mile long.
@@wildwing94ckan I think 6 degrees over 3/4 of a mile would be manageable, but 9 would be a lot. I bet the scooter would still make it, but taking data from today’s test, it would eat at minimum a quarter of your battery (assuming you get the highest range gt model) not to mention take forever. I’d suggest going with the vx2 pro. It’s only a couple hundred bucks more and from what I’ve seen, a much better hill climber
We haven't reviewed that one yet. I don't think we have one coming our way any time soon either. We should be reviewing another Hover-1 scooter in the next couple months though, and have covered the Journey 2.0, Journey Max and Alpha -Paul
@@ESG-ElectricScooterGuide by how much more do ya think? I'm thinking of purchasing one of the two mainly for the range, but they seem pretty close in terms of real life range.
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One of the comments inspired me to hill test my vx5 pro more thoroughly since that part was left out of the video. I took it up the two steepest hills in my neighborhood, length and angle of incline courtesy of the new york cycle club. The first was ~500 ft long with an average grade of 8.4% The scooter climbed it with no apparent struggle. The speed (according to the vmax app) didn’t dip below 10.5mph (except when I ran into a pothole at the end) and peaked around 12mph. The second hill was both steeper and significantly longer, coming in at .34 miles long at average grade of 9.4%. The parts at the beginning and end were steeper, i would guess at least 10% though I didn’t have the tools to measure it exactly. This one was harder, but the scooter made it up, ranging from 9.7-11mph the entire way. Though it was slow, it never felt like it was in danger of giving out or losing forward momentum. The battery was at 100% when I hit the first hill, and 85% when I hit the second hill. Would definitely not recommend attempting a hill as steep and long as the second one with less than half battery. Speaking of which, the exercise drained my battery much faster than a regular ride; the battery was at 59% after 5.5 miles when I got home afterwards, projecting a range of about 13.4 miles. Earlier today, I rode 14 miles over more level ground and still had 30% battery when I got home, projecting a range of 20 miles (I have the ST model, which is only supposed to give you 17 miles of range- I expect the inflated number is due to the fact I’m going off the app’s odometer numbers which are no doubt optimistic). I did both rides at as close to top speed as I could accounting for traffic lights/pedestrians and such. In other words, definitely no powerful hill climber but able to get the job done when called upon and definitely impressive for the $500 price tag. Overall, I’m very happy with the scooter, especially considering the low price tag. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the feedback!
A small converting error guys, 36.8 lbs = 16.6 kg not 59.2kg.
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It’s ok thanks for letting us know
Mitchell, those squinty eyes in the sunlight give me Napoleon Dynamite vibes haha great review. I just hit over 1000 miles on my MaxG2 yesterday! Cheers!
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Awesome audio on this video! Thanks for the review.
Glad you liked it!
When are you gonna make a review for the new EMove Cruiser V2?
Been waiting on that bad boy for a while.
Soon! I finished the range test 20 minutes ago!
-Paul
Great review! Thumbs up to VMAX for its app perfection. In contrast, I found the KQi3 Max so aggravating that I got rid of the scooter after a year then passed on the 300X when it it was released. Loved the quality, style, ride and mechanical features... despised the app. The VMAX VX2 Pro GT replaced my KQI3 Max, where it's used as a "car trip" vacation scooter. Such a great, compact, range-y scooter for when you don't want to deal with the weight or bulk of a dual motor sport scooter.
Can't wait for you guys to review the VX2 Extreme and see how it compares to the Pro! I love a simple, lightweight scooter that has great range, acceleration and hill climbing.
Coming soon!
Will you be performing a hill test review on this VX5 Pro? That's actually the part I'm most interested in. Thank you for all the great work your channel does!
Thanks so much. Sadly, hill climb was missed on this review. In the future the plan is that I will test pretty much all of the scooters, so we have consistency, and Mitchell will do other types of content. I don’t know that we’ll have time to go back and pick up some of the numbers, but I’ll try. -Paul
I have had my vx5 pro for only a week, but so far the hill climbing is way better than I expected. I live in a very hilly part of NYC and my commute to and from work requires tackling some lite to moderate hills and I’ve had absolutely no problems. On the steeper slopes, it still usually goes 13/14mph all the way up- there’s one in particular that’s a third of mile long that I thought would be an issue but the scooter topped it no problem. This is all for a scooter that has about 60 miles on it so far though, and I don’t think I’ve tried it on any hills steeper than 5 degrees incline, so pinch of salt and all that
Your comment inspired me to hill test my vx5 pro more thoroughly. I took it up the two steepest hills in my neighborhood, length and angle of incline courtesy of the new york cycle club. The first was ~500 ft long with an average incline of 8.4 degrees. The scooter climbed it with no apparent struggle. The speed (according to the vmax app) didn’t dip below 10.5mph (except when I ran into a pothole at the end) and peaked around 12mph. The second hill was both steeper and significantly longer, coming in at .34 miles long at an average incline of 9.5 degrees. The parts at the beginning and end were steeper, i would guess at least 10 degrees, though I didn’t have the tools to measure it exactly. This one was harder, but the scooter made it up, ranging from 9.7-11mph the entire way. Though it was slow, it never felt like it was in danger of giving out or losing forward momentum. The battery was at 100% when I hit the first hill, and 85% when I hit the second hill. Would definitely not recommend attempting a hill as steep and long as the second one with less than half battery. Speaking of which, the exercise drained my battery much faster than a regular ride; the battery was at 59% after 5.5 miles when I got home afterwards, projecting a range of about 13.4 miles. Earlier today, I rode 14 miles over more level ground and still had 30% battery when I got home, projecting a range of 20 miles (I have the ST model, which is only supposed to give you 17 miles of range- I expect the inflated number is due to the fact I’m going off the app’s odometer numbers which are no doubt optimistic). I did both rides at as close to top speed as I could accounting for traffic lights/pedestrians and such. In other words, definitely no powerful hill climber but able to get the job done when called upon and definitely impressive for the $500 price tag. Hope this helps!
@@nostalgiakid100 I really appreciate you doing that. There are plenty of free inclinometer apps, which is how I found that my hills are 6 to 9 percent each depending on where. Unfortunately the hill is the only way back from where I'm coming from and it's probably at least 3/4 of a mile long.
@@wildwing94ckan I think 6 degrees over 3/4 of a mile would be manageable, but 9 would be a lot. I bet the scooter would still make it, but taking data from today’s test, it would eat at minimum a quarter of your battery (assuming you get the highest range gt model) not to mention take forever. I’d suggest going with the vx2 pro. It’s only a couple hundred bucks more and from what I’ve seen, a much better hill climber
I love this scooter
Got it during 4th of July sale but TBO I’d buy full retail
It’s a terrific scooter
We totally agree!
Please review the new Segway ZT3 and how it holds up to similar Segways.
Would you recommend this scooter over a NIU Kqi2 pro?
Yes!
@@ESG-ElectricScooterGuide if you could elaborate a little more on why you think it's a better deal I'd greatly appreciate it.
Nice review. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
So I’ve been looking at the Hover-1 Renegades but I can’t find anyone who’s done an in-depth review
We haven't reviewed that one yet. I don't think we have one coming our way any time soon either. We should be reviewing another Hover-1 scooter in the next couple months though, and have covered the Journey 2.0, Journey Max and Alpha -Paul
How bout the VX2 Extreme? Is that coming soon per chance? :D
In 3-4 weeks that review should be out!
@@ESG-ElectricScooterGuide Sweet! Have y'all considered the VMAX R55 Pro by chance?
Quick question y'all. Does the fluid vista have similar real life range to the fluid horizon?
Should have a little more! Bigger battery geni.us/FluidVista check out latest pricing here
@@ESG-ElectricScooterGuide by how much more do ya think? I'm thinking of purchasing one of the two mainly for the range, but they seem pretty close in terms of real life range.
The performance is too low for 2024. Good Price? Not considering battery prices have come way down from just a few years ago.
Good value for the price and it’s not just the battery cost but it’s the 25% tariffs.
I'll never buy 36 volts scooters because 48 volts scooters have more torque power, at the same price.
Thanks for the feedback!
What would you get instead
You guys should review the Engwe y600 600w electric scooter
Noted!
@@ESG-ElectricScooterGuide thanks
I’m a 14 shoe size would I have enough space
Should be fine!
I'd rather have my scooter bind to my account. If someone steals it, ypu gotta show proof of it being yours etc.
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