How We Test and Research

ElectricScooterGuide covers electric scooters. Some we ride ourselves. Some we research from the outside while we wait for a unit. This page tells you which is which, so you know what a rating stands on before you spend money on it.

What “tested” means here

Scored reviews are hands-on. When you see a numeric score on a review, one of us physically rode that exact scooter. We measured real range on real roads, timed the charge, weighed it, checked the brakes, and lived with it long enough to have an opinion worth trusting. A score means tested. Full stop.

What “researched” means

Researched picks are not scored, and we never call them tested. Some scooters we have not ridden yet. For those we publish a researched pick or a first look built from published specs, owner feedback, warranty terms, and price history. These pages carry no score and never say we tested the scooter. When a unit shows up and we ride it, the researched pick becomes a scored review, and the badge changes to match. If a page has a score, we rode it. If it does not, we researched it. There is no third category.

How we track prices

Prices update at least once a day. Every price shows the date we last checked it. We pull Amazon prices fresh every day, and we read them the way a shopper would, never through an account that could bias the number. So the price next to a buy button is what you would pay today, not a figure from whenever the page went up.

How we verify promo codes

We publish a discount code only after we run it through a real checkout ourselves. Every code shows the date we last tested it. If it stops working at the register, we pull it. We do not scrape coupon feeds or repost codes we have not tried. One working code with a recent test date beats a wall of expired ones.

When we get it wrong

We fix it. If a spec changes, a price moves, or we just got something wrong, tell us and we will update the page and say what changed. We would rather fix a number today than let it mislead someone tomorrow.