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hey everybody this is Sean from the verge I'm here at CES 2018 and I'm maybe obviously on an electric scooter this is the relink electric scooter and it's not the same kind of flashy electric scooter we're used to here at CES it has a range of 30 kilometers which is nice but it has a pretty low top speed and that's on purpose it's because this is really aimed at the mobility sector and by that I mean people who need help getting around whether that's old people people who have maybe been injured or have a handicap and more importantly than all of that it's small it's relatively light only about 20 to 30 pounds and you can fold it up and store it in really tight spaces take a look all you have to do is lower the seat then reach down into the floor of the scooter grab a handle pull it up and snap its all together and at that point it works basically as like a luggage roller and you can even take the handlebar section and fold that down so that it fits better in the trunk of a car now the relink scooter is being built in China that they want to sell it especially in Europe but also in the US it's gonna cost around thirty six hundred dollars and it weighs somewhere in between the twenty to thirty pound range and it basically has all the things you'd expect from an electric scooter a modern electric scooter there's a gauge on the dash that tells you how fast you're going how much range you have which battery is left and it's powered by two batteries you can actually swap them out and just charge them at home you can charge this scooter right in a wall outlet too even when it's folded up into that sort of compact position but what's interesting about this scooter to me especially is that this is more proof that this market is changing because of how cheap electric motors and batteries have become we hear the word Mobility thrown around a lot at shows like CES or even Auto shows and it often sounds like a really empty word that these companies use because it's never really tied to products that are coming out now it's talking about self-driving cars that are coming in the future or shuttles that you know might only be in big cities whereas something like this actually attaches some meaning to that word and I think what I really like about this idea is that real Inc is a company that could actually sell this to someone that you know who might need help getting around in the short term somebody who needs something in the next year or two and while this might not be the perfect kind of scooter there might be faster ones out there might be ones that are better built this is something that is at the very least could be sold to that person who needs help getting around or will inspire other people at this low end of the market to make something that's pretty similar and when you consider the fact that mobility scooters that are already out there in the market costs way more than this it makes that price tag sound a little bit more reasonable so for more weird electric scooters helpful electric scooters self-driving cars cameras phones everything else we're doing here this week at CES 2018 go to youtube.com slash The Verge click Subscribe go to the verge comm slash CES for everything else and thanks for watching