TurboAnt X7 Max Electric Scooter - Real-World Review & Range Test
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2023
- My thorough, real-world review of the TurboAnt X7 Max electric scooter. In this review I go over the major specifications and features of the scooter as well as putting it through its paces on the hills and an extensive range test.
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00:00:00 - Opening Sequence
00:36:00 - Intro
01:11:20 - Unboxing + Setup
02:04:00 - Specifications
04:56:15 - Accessing the Menu System
05:25:07 - The Experience
06:07:00 - Extensive Range Test
07:44:21 - Big Disappointment
09:10:00 - General Performance
10:16:05 - Off Road Test
11:15:19 - Portability
11:49:21 - Deck/Kickstand
12:29:16 - Final Thoughts
14:03:05 - That’s A Wrap! (Outro)
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Very cool review Steve… love how professional your videos are!!!
Thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and especially for the kind words. Reviews are the most difficult type of video I do and this one in particular was an took a lot of work. Cheers!
Great review! Your attention to detail was very helpful.👌
Very happy to hear someone appreciates it. Thanks for the kind words, cheers!
Excellent review, thank you.
Thanks!
Very Good Review 🙂!!!
Thanks and thanks for watching!
Those are fair miles considering you were full throttle for the range test. For me I’m definitely purchasing a second battery for I do not like having range anxiety. Range anxiety is so real for me and I like to be prepared at all cost and that means helmet and safety pads as well. For the tires and like for all of my electric vehicles and bicycles I always use Tuffy Liners and Armadillo Flat sealant if they require tubes. I just received my first flat on my bicycle with that setup and it’s been over 11 years now. Great review!
Thanks! I thought it was decent mileage too considering I was pushing it quite hard. An extra battery makes good sense and thanks for the tire tips! Happy, safe riding!
Just bought one (Aug 17/2023) for the beginning and end of my commute and so far its been ok. Your point about hills is spot on. I have some slight hills to contend with and they do eat battery! My commute is about 9 km round trip. Morn 4.5km total: 1km down hill to the subway, and 3.5 km from subway to office with a slight 0-2 degree for about 1km and a short (100m) 5 degree overpass. The repeat home is 4.7km: the overpass, a slight down hill back to the subway and I get off one stop early to have a bit of a downhill/flat back home for 1.2km. I get just barely 2 commutes in before the battery is done. Only 18km (not 52!) I am 6 foot, 210 lbs, and yes I run it in sport mode and pin the throttle mostly, except to slow for pedestrians or sharp corners. I like it for form and function, the cruise control is great, I'm just not happy with the range.
Thanks for the comment. Your mileage is pretty much the same as what I got during my "real world" test. For how hard I worked it, I thought 20 km of range was pretty decent. If I skipped the hills and the grass, I'm sure I could have nabbed another 10 km or so but still far short of the 52 km range. The hills do indeed suck a lot of juice.
The 52 km range is ridiculously optimistic but TurboAnt does state on their website that number is based on riding in "comfort mode", which limits the speed to 9 mph. In the User Manual, they also state the mileage test was done with a 165 pound rider on flat, dry roads in perfect weather, so it's an absolute best case scenario.
I think TurboAnt should be more forthcoming about "real world" mileage or at least list an expected range based on a rider weight. Same goes for hills too. Their 15% grade number is unrealistic unless you weight 100 pounds or something.
As I concluded in my review, it's a decent scooter for the price but it's going to be best in flat environments and even better for lighter riders. Cheers!
BTW, looked like you are in Trail any relation to Alex Coutts?@@SteveCoutts
@@kenwalton365 I am indeed in Trail. No relation to Alex though. Cheers!
Could you do the same route in comfort mode and let us know what range you get? I wonder how much of a compromise of range over speed it is?
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Hi, I need to change aft brakes, but I don't know what buy.
I haven't had to do that yet so I cannot offer assistance. I would try contacting TurboAnt support to see if the can advise you. Good luck!
@@SteveCoutts thanks 👍🏻
We have had the earlier version for about a year and a half. We've had quite a few flats. Not exactly sure why. Other than that, it works well for my 125lb partner. For 200lb me, it's not perfect , as it REALLY struggles up most hills. The Unagi scooter I had prior to this, was much more powerful, but only had about a 6-10 mile range. You just can't get around physics...
Interesting about the flats. Are they a pain to fix? Knock on wood I haven't had one yet. Definitely not good on the hills for heavier riders but it's decent overall for the price. Cheers!
@@SteveCoutts The flats are a bit of a pain to fix, front and rear. Once you've done it once or twice, it get's easier. There are just a lot of moving parts to keep lined up when putting, especially the rear back together. For my size, I wouldn't get anything with less than 500 watts, or a 300 watt front and rear motor. That said, for someone under, say, 150lbs, I think it's an excellent value. Ours is going strong nearly two years later, and is essentially, the same model. Who knows, the new one may be easier to work on. It looks like they redesigned parts of the rear end.
@@racingtogreen2023 Cool. Thanks for the info! 😀
Well, there must be something wrong considering the specs show 350W which is usually an awfull lot compared to e bikes that come along with a 250 W motor.
A usual downside is the battery, better the likelihood to get a spare in 2 or 3 years when needed, not to mention in 5 or even 6 years cause then the scooter can be dead depending on the bms used and all the electronics.
I still have a product that reminds me about that key issue - which is even a canadian called BIONX which filed for bankrupsy in 2018.
Since then spare parts for many ebikes dried out and those owner lost thousands of dollars over night cause used bike buyers are not willing to pay the price of the year before they went down and spare parts prices have sky rocket.
BIONX was a successfull e-bike supplier and competitor to Bosch back then but all gone and it gets harder and harder to get the spare parts needed to keep it running like sensors. BMS needed a calibration, which the usual dealer and workshop was not capable of, many things had be done differently by Bionx and that causes the trouble of todays bikes. I have gotten a used bike for 2000€ back then in 2017 which had been a year old with 700 km on the odometer, but since then it was a total mess even though it was a candian brand with good reputation in the market and which had been an innovator till the bitter end. Since then I try to stay away from such adventures or products need to be so cheap that I can get a new one instead of getting spare parts or battery replacements.
No, Bionx was not an ebike maker or seller, just a drivetrain supplier for the more expensive european brands that marketed the exotic canadian brand more exclusively and for even higher prices than the Bosch competitor ones, but they had a big benefit: you could not recognice that it was an ebike cause the batterie had become a part of the frame and it had a wheel motor which is more or less hidden. Unique, also great features like recuperation - but at the end an expensive adventure, but
the first step to get into renewables or Solar Power in 2018 and to order an EV in 2019 just to benefit from the low tco cause the power used from the roof instead of feeding it into the grid cost us about 0,08€ and therefore surplus charging means 365 days costs of 1,20€ for 100 km or less than 2$ per 100 miles.
Expensive bike but cheap considering what thoughts and mind change it had caused like how recuperating works and that recuperation is only the 2nd best option in real life cause you get only 70% of the energy back you had invested before in accerlation, which means: driving by looking ahead and gliding or sailing to use the breaks at the latest point is the most efficient one which I had learned from that e-bike where recuperation was a very advanced feature back then only Bionx had to offer.
So it always can depend on a lot factors but at the end it is a lesson learned to avoid expensive vehicles with a brand that is not domestic and not established well or too shiny in the marketing claims.
Thanks for the comment and I appreciate the insight.
E-bikes or e-scooters are a very efficient way to get around while reducing your carbon footprint at the same time. They can be quite expensive though as you point out. There is value in lesser known brands as not everyone can afford top-tier models but you're right, there can be risk in the unknown. I like that TurboAnt has readily available replacement parts but you do wonder if saving hundreds at purchase time will result in more spent on parts and/or the scooter expiring only a few years down the road.
There is too much choice for the consumer nowadays and I want to help folks weed through the marketing claims, showing them what a product truly can or cannot do. People are going to buy stuff regardless. My hope is that the information I provide helps folks make a better decision.
We installed a 10.3 kW Solar system in August 2021. Our first full year of production was 7.8MWh, which is about 70% of our consumption. Our consumption is off to a lower start this year as we have been renovating for energy efficiency, mostly improving air tightness and adding insulation. There is great satisfaction watching power export to the grid while we cool our house in the summer with an electric heat pump. I am striving to get our home to net zero and love seeing the technology advance. Cheers!
Allow me to remind you that this e-scooter made in China is not a customized model particularly for TurboAnt. In fact, such model is based upon prevalent common structure for e-scooter. In other words, many e-scooter manufacturers in China share this structure design for OEM manufacturing for buyers around the world with different name brands pasted to buyers' request. Even the motor hubs are shared by many models, so it is quite impossible to run out of key components after several years.
I am riding one of this exact model of same spec. in Taiwan under the name brand "FlyOne".
@@darcychu9652 That is good to know, thanks for sharing.
Nover believe the range claimed by manufacturers because it is the range of "no load", in other words, it is the range without rider while spinning the motor with e-scooter being seated on a bar stool till the end of juice from battery. So, in real world a rider of 85 kilograms could expect only 50% to 60% of range as claimed.
And that's why we test... 😀👍 PS Love the bar stool bit - haha!
Actually with this one they had a tag saying ‘tested with an 185 lb individual on flat surface in specific temperature going I think 80% of max speed’ so there’s that
@@Andrew_Georghiou The tag on my X7 Max said mileage was tested at 165 pound rider weight, 77ºF (25ºC), 9.3 mph (15 km/h), flat dry road and 34.8 psi in the tires. I was testing at full throttle, some off-roading, ~200 pounds total load with intermittent hills (some steep). My conclusion was "respectable range" for the testing scenario, which is think is fair. Cheers!
Some times it goes in cruise control without beeping
Hitting cracks will bend it and it will keep popping the pneumatic tires
Interesting. I had not noticed that during my testing. The beep when entering cruise control is pretty faint mind you so it is easy to miss with wind/traffic noise.
*knock on wood* I haven't popped a tire nor bent the frame but you can tell it's definitely not designed to handle the rough stuff. It's that old saying, you get what you pay for. It's a decent scooter for the price.
@@luckspell
I fell off the scooter by flying over curb carelessly without damaging it, so the scooter is robust in structure.
My only gripe about the scooter is the firmware of "Battery Management System" in the swappable batteries. I bought 2 extra batteries in order to take scooter along on my trip by bus to visit friends out of town, but I ended up losing 2 newly bought batteries for charging overnight. Supposedly, the BMS of lithium battery would slow down the charging flow when reaching 80% and stop the charging at full even plugged in. But my two new batteries were destroyed for leaving them plugged in overnight. Now I have to use timer to define the charging time precisely on my only battery left.
@@darcychu9652 Wow you should make a youtube movie telling people I know it's not your job but how would anyone looking into it find out? Thank you for telling me.
This is a paid advertisement. don't trust This scooter has many quality, warranty and customer service problems. The fact that it is not sold on Amazon is more than indicative of all the problems. I bought one more than a year ago and more than 90% of the time it has had all kinds of problems, it hasn't turned on for 5 months and I'm still waiting for a serious response from this company.
I believe my review was thorough, fair and quite critical at times. As I stated in the video, I did not have any issues with it during my testing. I also mentioned that it seemed well built with good materials and that its durability will only reveal itself over time.
How a particular scooter holds up for an individual rider depends on a so many factors. Rider size, weight, riding style, terrain, weather, build quality and frequency of use. I've had the scooter for 6 months now and it's been problem free for me however I don't use it daily. Someone using it as a daily commuter may have already experienced parts wearing out or failing. My review clearly didn't cover that.
It's pretty safe to assume that a $600 scooter won't be as durable or as capable as a $1200 one. The well known saying "you get what you pay for" definitely applies here. Cheers!
@germanpinzon did you have an X7 Max or an X7 Pro?
I say under worst case scenario, you get 9.23 miles range per charge on that electric scooter.
I worked it quite hard and got 20 km (~12 miles). Pretty decent mileage. Cheers!
I would say that you can achieve 20 miles(=32 kilometers) range should you ride with discretion, in other words, riding in mixed "modes" based upon surface conditions. My own experience is that about 3 kilometers per every AmpHour, so this scooter can get about 30 kilometers per 10 AmpHr battery.
The best part about this scooter is its lightweight to carry around while battery swappable to ease the range anxiety.
i am never ride scooter. im using Xiaomi Scooter 3.
Looks like a good scooter!