u/formandovega

Hi everyone just looking for some advice!

I recently bought a pure electric scooter for pretty dang cheap.

I'm enjoying it so far but the battery life is terrible. It must only get about 6 or 7 kilometers and that's pushing it when it comes to hills.

I've noticed some of the younger folk riding similar scooters but they seem to have an extra battery unit below the steering pole.

Can you add battery packs to them? Someone told me that that's how you make them illegal in the UK. You're not supposed to modify them.

Wondered if anyone had any advice? Right now the thing is only really good for going to some local shops and back.

Edit should add it's a pure air 350. As far as I know it's already quite a cheap model.

When I was a kid, every big family had an estate car. My earliest memory was of that moving brick which was the Volvo 960 Estate. Then it was a Peugeot 406 Estate blah blah.

Pic from CarMagazine.co.uk

Was hiring a car recently and it was a relatively new VW Golf Estate. Its literally the newest estate car I have ever seen and I now cannot unsee the fact that those horrid Suburban warrior SUV things have completely replaced estates cars in big families? This confuses me because those SUVs look big, but are not actually that roomier than a saloon and are FAR less roomy and storage friendly than an estate or minivan.

I have even been looking for a used car for myself, and I like estate cars because of the boot space (camping and music related reasons) and I have struggled to find one more modern than about 2006? Do people just not buy them since the late 2000s?

Am I going mad or is this a thing? I admit it could just be area bias/personal perspective so was curious?

EDIT cheers for all the comments! I learned a lot! Sorry for sounding argumentative, but I do value people who own them offering their reasons. A few of them did make me see them in a different way. I admit I never considered they are comfortable for older people who prefer the height. I mostly was thinking of the family value.

On a side note, some people mentioned some manufacturing reasons companies like selling SUVs, I looked into it and its really interesting! It led to the book "High & Mighty by Keith Bradsher" that talks about the rise of SUVs in America as well as this fascinating Youtube vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg from a funny climate guy.

Spoiler alert, it was tax and money reasons, surprise surprise.

Felt like I would share for anyone interested!