Our Mission
Our mission is to lead the proliferation of electric scooters worldwide.
We’re pushing scooters to their limits, analyzing our performance data, and synthesizing that with feedback from real riders for comprehensive electric scooter reviews (written and video formats).
We also foster growth, collaboration, and community among electric scooter riders from around the world.
Our Stats
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| 60+ | 20k | 16k | 27k |
| Scooters Reviewed | Miles Ridden | YouTube Subscribers |
Our Team
ESG is a small team that has spent hundreds of hours riding thousands of miles, performing rigorous real-world testing of over 60 electric scooters since 2019.
Chuck
| RIDING STYLE Smooth Criminal |
| PREFERRED SPEED 25 mph |
| SIZE Medium Rider |
| SCOOTER TURN ONS Big Deck, Thumb Throttle |
| “Two Red Bulls and two hours – we can do anything!” |
Paul
| RIDING STYLE Fast + Furious |
| PREFERRED SPEED “…Can we make it go faster?” |
| SIZE Medium Rider |
| RANDOM FACT Has owned over 1,000 motorcycles |
| SCOOTER TURN ONS Rubber suspension |
Ramier
| RIDING STYLE Fast + Cool |
| PREFERRED SPEED 30 mph or above |
| SIZE Alpha Big Dawg |
| RANDOM FACT Once stayed up 24 hours playing GoldenEye |
| “If you ain’t first, you’re last!” |
Richard
| RIDING STYLE Low + Slow |
| PREFERRED SPEED Under 20 mph |
| SIZE Medium Rider |
| RANDOM FACT Never removes helmet |
| “I wambo, you wambo, he/she/me wambo.” |
Trina
| RIDING STYLE Leisurely Cruiser |
| PREFERRED SPEED Under 20 mph |
| SIZE Short/Medium Rider |
| RANDOM FACT Unlocked all songs in Guitar Hero: Rock the 80s in 4 hours |
| “If you’re going to throw your life away, he better have a motorcycle!” |
Vosk
| RIDING STYLE Fast + Furious |
| PREFERRED SPEED 35 mph |
| SIZE Big Dawg |
| RANDOM FACT Officially knighted as Sir Vosk by the community |
| SCOOTER TURN ONS Anything shiny and new (and fast, and worthy of big dawgs) |
Justin
| RIDING STYLE Slow, but on the fastest scooters |
| PREFERRED SPEED 25 mph |
| SIZE Tall/Skinny |
| RANDOM FACT Lives in the cloud |
Our Location
The Electric Scooter Guide team is located in Berkeley, CA (USA). Here’s a March 2021 team ride from Berkeley to Emeryville Public Market.
Our Sponsors
Our long term growth goal is to be 100% community supported. That is, supported entirely through our audience and not through 3rd parties or retail sponsors. However, the PEV community is currently too small to support the rigorous level of review and testing we currently do.
ESG has the most rigorous, quantitative process for evaluating electric scooters. We are one of just a few sites that actually does hands-on reviews and the only that uses precision Racelogic equipment for scientifically rigorous and statistically repeatably performance tests which includes acceleration, top speed, and an often gruelling range test. We collectively spend 100s of hours per scooter riding, testing, and evaluating. This is before you add in the time to distill this data into engaging YouTube or social media content.
In order to support this level of depth, we rely on a diversity of income sources, including YouTube ads, sponsored links, and affiliate programs. Without these income sources, we would not be able to support the level of rigor that we have now.
Does this make us biased?
We rely heavily on numbers and hard data to tell our story and “show our work.” This means you get to decide.
Feel free to use our data to make your own decision.
ESG Liveshow | Every Tuesday @ 5 PM PST/8 PM EST
We produce a weekly liveshow from our Berkeley, CA headquarters (simulcast on Youtube and Facebook Live) highlighting all things scooters, including deep dives of electric scooters we’re reviewing, news from the micromobility industry, photos and videos shared by the scooter community, and other fun content!
Join us every Tuesday at 5 PM PST.
SCOOTIES The Only Electric Scooter Awards Show
We ask the electric scooter community for their feedback on scooters and scooter content creators, and hand out e-Awards to those that receive the most votes in our annual Scooties show.
1st Annual Scooties (2019)
2nd Annual Scooties (2020)
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