EVT - R20 Electric Scooter - Retro Re-lived
Now these are great. We are thinking of picking up a few as a daily commuters. It takes the LA freeways out of the picture, but there are other ways downtown. It goes 45mph and depending on how heavy you are on the throttle it has a range up to 45 miles. As always the drawback is the weight, and the horrible disposal of the batteries. There is no real good options that we know of to deal with batteries yet, so we will still send ours to the toxic waste dumps like everyone else. Hopefully we will have a way to deal soon. Battery life can be about 10 years so maybe we are not as doomed as we think.
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I've been riding one of these since February. Top speed is actually around 42 mph per the speedometer, or 38 mph per traffic radar displays. Max range is a lot less than advertised: I did a 26 mile round-trip a few weeks ago and only barely made it home with the charge indicator flashing red and the max speed significantly reduced (I weigh 160 lbs, for what it's worth).
Still, for shorter trips it's actually quite decent. I use it for my 10 mile round-trip commute several days a week (charging overnight), as well as for local small errands, and it handles those trips just fine without any appreciable loss of top speed. This is my second electric scooter (my first was an EVT-168), and they've helped me use my car a lot less (thus extending its life and saving me a bit on gas) while only costing me about a dollar per month in electricity!
Oh, forgot to mention, don't expect to get 10 years out of the batteries. One of my EVT-168's four batteries went bad after barely a year, though I think it may have been defective to begin with. I recall reading that the batteries are good for around 300 charge cycles (i.e. full discharges/charges), so assuming you also get 26 miles per charge cycle, that's 7800 miles. Your mileage may vary (terrain, rider load, etc.).