Electric Scooters and Petrol Scooters Comparison: Your Guide to What to Choose
Introduction:
Electric bikes are no more a trend but a necessity to save the environment for a bit of today’s and more of the future generations to come. Way before identifying this need, electric bikes gained the popularity in the 90’s and early 20’s. While a lot of people still prefers petrol bikes, equal are interested in purchasing electric scooters for their daily commute. A lot of our users already aware of what to look into petrol scooters, we decided to compare the two for better understanding of the buyers.
While the two have major differences, here we are classifying the information on the basis of pricing, operational range, maintenance, and convenience.
Price & Battery Charging Time
To comment on the pricing, the electric vehicles are still new to the market and are on the path to stabilize within a year or so. The best rated electric scooters run on the lithium ion battery which is the main differentiator between petrol scooters and electric scooters. The other types of electric scooters run on lead acid batteries which are less preferred for their charging and discharging time associated to it.
Lithium-ion batteries take less time to charge and their discharge rate is very low compared to the lead acid batteries. On an average, electric scooters installed with lithium ion batteries take 3–5 hours whereas lead acid batteries can take 6–10 hours to charge. Further, this time may also varies according to the type of charging wire used to charge.
Since the cost of lithium ion batteries is high, such eScooters are a little bit expensive compared to others. But the technological advancement in this space along with increasing demand is bridging the gap and we see electric scooter models prices at par with IC engine vehicles.
Operational Range
Operational range is a related to maximum running capacity of an electric scooter once it is fully charged. In case of petrol scooters, it is the capacity of running the vehicle in one litre. Again, it varies brand to brand and model to model.
The best petrol scooters have range upto 50–60 km/litre and electric scooters have range upto 80–230 kms. As per the preference of users, eScooters are the best for short distance travel or intracity travel and they are provided luggage carriers too.
Convenience
The cost associated with electric scooters is very low and is the differentiator in the pricing area. If picked up one particular model of electric scooter, and calculate per km charges, it falls up to Rs. 0.22/km. In case of petrol bikes, the amount raises up to Rs. 2/km.
To avoid the need of finding nearby charging stations, many leading eScooter brands are given a home charger. It is contributing to make the charging process easy.
Maintenance
Electric scooters needs less maintenance compared to petrol scooters. The only constant maintenance required is to charge the batteries. However, with TRiDE, it has become very easy to charge the batteries. It gives easy access to battery charging and swapping facilities and save the charging time.
Average life of a lithium ion battery is 5–6 years and there comes the time of battery replacement. Though the price of a new battery is high now, it will reduce in the coming future due to technological advancements happening in this space.
Conclusion:
Here is a summary to understand the different factors involved in Electric Scooters and Petrol Scooters it in a better way.
TRiDE Mobility provides all the latest information about electric two-wheelers through their application. Along with the option of research, comparison, and evaluation, they also have a recommendation engine that suggests the right EV products to the consumers based on their needs. Customers can book a test drive and purchase the vehicle online. They offer an array of pre and post-sales services such as easy finance, insurance, road side assistance, maintenance, charging infra and battery swapping facilities.
Visit the website to know more or download the app from the app stores. Simply go to the store and search for tride mobility. Or get the links from here.
Android users can download the app from here: TrideMobility
Apple users can download our app from here: TrideMobility
Switch to electric today to save the environment.
