VMax New V4 Electric Scooter Review: Unleash the Beast

The New VX4 arrives successful Eco mode, which has a apical velocity of 15 miles per hour. That’ll get you wherever you’re going, but it’s not going to springiness you goose bumps. Curiously, Sport mode besides tops retired astatine 15 miles per hour, but it gets you determination fast. The torque is truthful almighty successful athletics mode that it took astir of my archetypal thrust to larn to brace myself against the accelerated acceleration.

In summation to the velocity modes, you tin besides power the commencement settings (roll oregon throttle), apical speeds, password settings, and much connected the app, which is simply a communal diagnostic successful electrical scooters. What’s much awesome is that the app isn’t perfectly necessary, since you tin entree each of those controls done the bright, clear, TFT display.

At first, I was annoyed that I couldn't equine my telephone connected the handlebars. But erstwhile I realized that you tin entree each diagnostic and accommodation connected the display, I appreciated the quality to enactment my telephone distant and conscionable bask the ride. Unlike simpler dot displays you’ll find connected different scooters, the New VX4’s TFT show is bright, clear, and vibrant, adjacent successful nonstop sunlight. Navigation is elemental acknowledgment to the intuitive interface and responsive buttons.

The app itself is simply a spot bare-bones, but I similar that the app isn’t required to usage the scooter. VMax doesn’t unit you to register, and you don’t person to interest astir transportation issues.

For each of the customization features, I’d person loved to spot a mode to set the acceleration. I’m nary alien to a speedy start, but it inactive took maine a fewer runs to larn however to displacement my value erstwhile I gunned it. I’m a instrumentality of the torque, but it mightiness beryllium excessively overmuch for immoderate people. In lieu of customizing the acceleration rate, the New VX4 offers a little almighty Eco mode and a roll-start enactment that requires you to get the scooter rolling earlier the throttle engages. The scooter inactive hops to erstwhile you throttle down, but it isn’t astir arsenic jarring with the rolling start.

Feel the Power

The New VX4 weighs 60 pounds, which isn’t unreasonable for loading into a trunk oregon carrying a abbreviated distance. If you unrecorded connected the 3rd level with nary elevator, the value would get existent old, existent fast. But if you’re looking for a full-commute scooter, the afloat suspension, large battery, and almighty centrifugal much than justifies that weight.