What do you get while you mix a Canadian electric scooter firm identified for prime quality designs and years of suggestions from the electric scooter neighborhood? The world’s first electric Hyper Scooter, which is what the Apollo Pro claims will probably be when it begins delivery early subsequent 12 months.
This isn’t Apollo Scooters’ first brush with innovation. The Montreal-based firm has spent years growing its personal electric scooter designs that rely closely on the suggestions it receives from its tens of hundreds of electric scooter riders.
If you keep in mind from just a few months in the past our take a look at of Apollo’s final electric scooter debut, the Apollo City, then that gives you only a style of what the corporate has shoehorned into its newest mannequin.
As Apollo defined in a press release offered to Electrek:
“The Apollo Pro is the first electric Hyper Scooter due to its high performance, IoT integrations, and robust personalization capabilities. Released only a couple of months after the launch of the City 2022, the Apollo Pro takes the concepts from the latter and brings them one step forward. Built with people-first design principles in mind, it integrates cutting-edge technology from vehicles, smart phones, and IoT to offer the most comfortable and a safe riding experience. This latest innovation features IoT (internet of things), smart BMS (battery management system), phone as display, amongst numerous other features that make it what is considered to be a one of a kind creation.”
While most electric scooters available on the market are largely a group of off-the-shelf elements (or typically merely re-branded OEM scooters), the Apollo Pro has over 150 customized made elements developed by Apollo, together with the unibody body created from a single piece of aluminum and able to supporting 150 kg (330 lb). The body consists of dual suspension with entrance and rear swingarms for smoothing out these tough city streets.
Critical elements just like the proprietary M1 controller are stated to assist create that distinctive and customised consumer expertise that spans from the scooter’s construct high quality to trip type. The scooter consists of elements like large (for a scooter) 12″ wheels with self-healing tires that eschew inside tubes for an automotive type tubeless rim and tire setup.
Physical braking is achieved through two drum brakes which can be solely sealed to supply zero upkeep issues and the identical braking efficiency in each moist and dry situations.
But riders could discover that they hardly ever use the bodily brakes, as a separate throttle on the left facet of the bars controls highly effective regenerative braking that brings the scooter to a cease and recharges the battery on the identical time.
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But it takes greater than a complicated construct and customized elements to name a car a “hyper” something today (except you’re WalMart). Anything known as a “Hyper Scooter” higher be quick, and the Apollo Pro actually delivers.
It makes use of a pair of 1,200 watt motors to offer it 2.4 kW of all-wheel-drive energy and a high pace of 70 km/h (43.5 mph). The scooter’s efficiency isn’t only a flash within the pan both, with an anticipated vary of as much as 100 km (62 miles) from that huge 30 Ah battery. That means you’ll be able to both use the scooter at modest speeds for days (or maybe even weeks) with out recharging, or you’ll be able to know that you just’ll be capable to trip laborious at quick speeds all day on a single cost.
The battery will doubtless final riders nicely into the evening, which is when the 360 diploma lighting kicks in. Built-in LED lighting consists of entrance and tail lamps, flip indicators, and lighting wrapping across the circumference of the deck. If you wish to be heard along with being seen, the scooter even has audio system that can be utilized like a growth field.
Instead of attempting to cram increasingly more right into a small scooter show, the Apollo Pro makes use of the rider’s smartphone through the Apollo app to offer probably the most detailed show doable. Your cellphone’s display screen is all however assured to be a greater show than something an organization can embody on a scooter, and so the Apollo Pro has a built-in cellphone holder on the bar. It even consists of wi-fi charging so your cellphone’s battery gained’t drain when you use it for in-app navigation, distant locking and different app-related options.
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The app is additionally used for off-scooter notifications through the included Internet of Things (IoT) know-how. For instance, riders can activate the scooter’s alarm after they park. Then if somebody makes an attempt to steal the scooter, a notification shall be despatched to the rider’s cellphone.
The scooter’s alarm may also sound whereas it locks the scooter so it will probably’t be ridden off or resold as a functioning scooter.
Alarms and auto-locking could assist scale back the chance of theft, however it is going to by no means utterly eradicate it. That’s why Apollo is going full Apple and providing Apollo Care as an prolonged guarantee that features theft protection along with repairs.
What does all this price you? Well it actually isn’t low cost, with pricing anticipated to land at US $3,599. Though you’ll be able to a minimum of get your foot within the door for affordable with a fully-refundable US $20 deposit to carry your reservation forward of Q1 2023 shipments. Financing is additionally accessible for US $90 monthly.
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Electrek’s Take
While the value would possibly make your eyes bulge, it’s not extraordinary within the excessive efficiency scooter trade.
It would possibly shock some readers to be taught this, however there are diehard scooter followers on the market that deal with a 40-50 mph electric scooter as basically their automobile. In large cities it isn’t unusual to see a dude in a motorbike jacket and helmet flying down the highway on a excessive efficiency scooter like this, and there’s probability he spent greater than $3.6k too. The excessive energy fashions aren’t low cost, that’s for certain!
In this case, you’re paying for a ton of innovation that went into growing a model new scooter from the bottom up, not only a assortment of elements from a catalog like we regularly see.
The Apollo Pro gained’t be for everybody, however for a selected section of the scooter market, I can see this is precisely what they’re searching for.
I’m wanting ahead to the possibility to check one in all these in individual as soon as they start delivery. While we await that chance although, be happy to take a gander at my Apollo City overview under to see what the corporate can do for a (barely) decrease spec ~30 mph scooter at a (considerably) lower cost.
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