A number of years in the past the group at Canada’s premier electrical scooter firm Apollo determined that they weren’t simply going to promote off-the-shelf scooters. As a substitute, they had been going to innovate with new designs and customized growth to create distinctive and excessive efficiency scooters. After a number of launches of progressively extra personalized scooters, it seems like the brand new Apollo Professional has reached the head of that design ethos.

The Apollo Professional is quick and highly effective, there’s little doubt about that. However there’s a lot extra to this scooter than sheer watts. It’s straightforward to pump extra energy right into a scooter as of late, however designing for ease of use and cozy dealing with takes a way more refined design course of.

That’s precisely what the group at Apollo has performed with the brand new Apollo Professional, which launches for orders at the moment.

To see what I imply, take a look at my video assessment beneath. Then hold studying for my full ideas on this spectacular electrical scooter.

Apollo Professional Video Overview

The place do I even begin?

There’s a lot happening right here with the Apollo Professional that I don’t even know the place to start out.

The scooter itself is a floor up design, that means you received’t discover many off-the-shelf elements. The efficiency is sweet, don’t get me mistaken, however the actual story right here is the design and the options.

However since everybody loves to check specs, let’s begin there.

With twin motors, the Apollo Professional is rated for speeds of as much as 70 km/h (43 mph), although I clocked it at round 75 km/h (46 mph) on flat floor in highest velocity mode (LUDO mode). Underpromise and overdeliver, that’s what I wish to see.

The 52V 30Ah battery presents 1,560 Wh of capability or sufficient juice for round 100 km (62 miles) of vary. In different phrases, there’s extra vary right here than most common riders ought to ever want, however that additionally implies that quick riders received’t discover the scooter working empty too shortly, both.

The twin 12″ wheels are pretty giant for a standing scooter and use a self-healing tire design to assist forestall flats. They’re additionally supported by pretty plush suspension giving the bike a planted but snug really feel.

Every wheel wears drum brakes which leads to upkeep free braking that works rain or shine (the sealed drum brakes principally work ceaselessly), however you in all probability received’t want them. That’s as a result of the regenerative braking is robust and efficient, particularly in case you plan prematurely to start braking a second or two earlier than you’d usually interact mechanical brakes. You may nearly fully depend on the regenerative braking utilizing the second thumb throttle (left aspect of the bars) that’s really not a throttle in any respect however reasonably a variable regen change.

It took me a little bit of getting used to since I’m so accustomed to reaching for typical brake levers, so don’t be shocked in case you hold forgetting to make use of the regen brake change at first. However when you get used to it, you’ll by no means wish to return to regular mechanical brakes.

The built-in show on the scooter is reasonably primitive as a dot matrix show, however not less than is tremendous vibrant and readable in direct daylight. However the scooter’s app is designed to be the principle show, working along with a quad-lock system to mount on the scooter’s bars and in addition cost your cellphone wirelessly. I don’t have a quad-lock case so I simply used the Apollo cellphone mount, which is definitely fairly good, too, with its all-metal development. Utilizing the app will provide you with far more detailed data than the dot matrix show, plus it permits you to benefit from superior options like GPS monitoring, journey recording, customizable scooter settings and extra.

The Apollo Professional additionally contains 360 diploma wraparound LED lighting that’s fairly effectively carried out. We’ve seen scooters that go excessive with LEDs that flip them right into a Floyd Laser Present, however this isn’t that.

The Apollo group used a reasonable contact to offer vibrant, seen wraparound lighting with out risking giving anybody rainbow seizures.

The scooter’s vibrant white LED bars may have you scooting on a cloud of sunshine at night time, which then turns right into a vibrant pink cloud once you interact the brakes. Nobody will ever miss that you’re there or that you’re braking.

However to me, the actual secret to the Apollo Professional’s profitable design is simply how good it feels to journey. I’m usually an e-bike man, as that’s the place I really feel most snug. I like driving scooters and electrical unicycles and different assorted micromobility units, however e-bikes have lengthy been my go to machine.

Even so, the Apollo Professional feels nearly as secure and intuitive to me as an e-bike. I don’t know if its the rake angle or the bigger wheels or the dialed in suspension or some other of various small particulars that went into the design, however the scooter merely rides rattling effectively. It leans and carves with ease, stands again up instantly and makes me really feel so secure that I nearly wish to journey handsfree. I attempted it and I can’t fairly pull it off, however of all of the scooters I’ve tried, I feel this one is the closest to creating me really feel snug driving no-handed. That’s not a function, however reasonably may level to how rock stable the scooter feels.

Bang for lots of buck

The one actual damper on my scooter parade right here is the worth. At $3,499, this isn’t an affordable electrical scooter by any stretch of the creativeness. And it’s competing towards many scooters which have even larger energy rankings and sooner speeds on this value class.

However the Apollo Professional was by no means meant to compete on energy or velocity. It’s quick and highly effective, don’t get me mistaken. However different scooters will finest it by a number of seconds in acceleration or a pair thousand watts in peak energy. What the Apollo Professional does otherwise is in its design. It’s meant to be a extra refined scooter. That’s obvious all over the place from the dealing with to the interface to the app.

And so in case you’re a “extra energy, please” sort of rider, above all else, then this isn’t the scooter for you. You are able to do 60 mph on different scooters at this value. However in case you ask me, cruising round at 45 mph is greater than sufficient for me, and to be trustworthy I spent extra time within the 30’s than within the 40’s of mph, as a result of I merely don’t really feel the necessity to journey that quick more often than not. It’s nice to have the velocity and energy to do it after I wish to, however I’m extra apprehensive a couple of scooter that’s handy and cozy. In that sense, the Apollo Professional undoubtedly matches the invoice.

It received’t compete on bang on your buck, but it surely’s additionally not meant to. It’s costly as a result of it’s designed higher and incorporates extra proprietary elements, from the bulletproof controller to the bar-mounted flip alerts for elevated visibility and security.

I wouldn’t advocate it to everybody, however for severe scooter riders that commute each day on their scoots, it’s an incredible improve. That’s the sort of rider that Apollo clearly had in thoughts after they constructed this factor. The corporate has different scooters at a fraction of the associated fee. For its flagship mannequin, Apollo unmistakably went all out to mix the correct tech with the most effective elements. And that consequence could be felt the primary time you hop on the scooter.