Electric Scooter Shop has the most extensive Electric Scooter range in NZ. With the lightest touch of the throttle, this thing was off like a scalded cat! Swift, and purposeful, driven by a silent energy, gliding over the tarmac. It was my first e-scooter experience, and I was impressed! Surely these would catch on?

At the time I had recently set up Think Electric Bikes, after a conversation with my friend Ludo had alerted me to the vast cycling infrastructure being established in Auckland. I had been languishing in the motor trade, unfulfilled and seeking better. And e-bikes were new, fun, clean, and whispered of a car-free future. But what of these scooter contraptions? Were they the preserve of kids and hipsters alone?

We invested in some basic e-scooter models. Things started slowly. E-bikes people understood. It’s a bike. Scooters…..were slower. But we had faith. We introduced some new lines, tried this and that, things improved, then rental scooters arrived and the landscape changed fast.