Zoomi Life

I’ve been pretty curious lately about the XM-5000Li electric moped. X-treme Scooter’s newest e-moped for 2009, the XM-5000Li looks damn good and has some nice technical specs: a 60mph top speed, 80+ mile range, and a six hour recharge rate. But it’s hard to get any information out of X-treme past the marketing found on their website, and their products have been hit-or-miss in the past in terms of quality. Their packaging hasn’t been great either. So I’ve been really interested to find someone’s personal experience with buying and receiving the XM-5000Li.

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Sometimes failure and adversity can pleasantly turn into opportunity. Take this morning, for example. I utterly failed to wake up on time to make it to today’s Santa Monica Electric Vehicle parade, an event I’d been looking forward to for some time. However, my failure to arrive on time also presented me with an opportunity to spend some one-on-one time with Adam Maoz of Zero Emission Motors, and to test drive his Volt electric moped.

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It’s not often that I say something like “Wow” when I look at a scooter or moped. I don’t generally like them. This one is different. The XM-5000Li electric moped has a lot of great features for such a low-priced machine, including a boatload of power. Most mopeds are underpowered little things without much excuse for their existence. Not this one.

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