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Want to downsize a car but not ready for a bicycle? Here’s why you need a seated electric scooter

by Micah Toll

Gas prices are ridiculously high and they just keep climbing. Your car isn’t getting any cheaper, but buying a new electric car also isn’t in your budget (and let’s face it, putting one more car on the roads isn’t helping anyone either).

An electric bike would be a GREAT alternative, but maybe you just aren’t ready to go 20 mph on the side of the road with cars whizzing past your handlebars.

But there’s another great solution that you might have overlooked: the humble electric scooter.

I’m talking seated electric scooters, like the Vespa kind – not the Razor kind. And here’s why you ought to give them another look.

This might sound like a crazy idea, giving up a car in favor of an electric scooter.

But I assure, it’s not crazy at all. In fact, it’s how my wife and I live. And how billions of others live across the world.

It’s only in America where a scooter is seen as an oddity. Pretty much everywhere else, they’re simply a given.

I’ve written before about how my daily driver is a fun little 125cc-equivalent electric scooter. And the fact that I live in a city helps, but its 50 mph (80 km/h) top speed would work just as well in the suburbs.

Continue reading to learn more about how an electric scooter can help you replace your car and follow along as we answer common questions about switching at Electrek.co.