On the other hand, we want to stress that you really shouldn't be riding these things on the sidewalk. From personal experience we can tell you that we've had a number of close calls with unsuspecting bystanders coming around the corner. Electric scooters don't do hills. Attempting to ride a scooter up a hill will overheat the unit and cause it to shut down. The following scooters handle slight inclines, but you'll suffer a noticeable drop in power.
Electric scooters can move small mountains.
More specifically, they can all gracefully schlep a 300-pound load from point A to point B without breaking a sweat. Ten miles an hour is faster than you think. When we took the Buzz out of the box, we didn't notice it had a flat front tire. We took it to the garage rooftop for a spin, and I, moving at full speed and not wearing any protective gear, ended up tumbling over the handlebars. I didn't get too scraped up, but my palms hit the pavement hard and stung for two days afterward.