The URB-E Pro GT packs a ton of power into a very small scooter
It’s a brisk, sunny morning in late summer, the perfect time to be outside in New York City. I’m cruising up the Brooklyn Bridge, sipping an ice coffee and charging my phone. My ride is the URB-E Pro-GT, a $1,999 electric scooter that bills itself as the ultimate in lightweight urban vehicles. It gets me to and from work, a roughly four mile commute, in the same amount of time as my bicycle. But it doesn’t leave me sweaty, and tucks neatly under my desk. “No motors!” screams an angry cyclist heading in the opposite direction on the bridge. Well, you can’t please everybody.
I first rode a prototype URB-E way back at CES 2014. At the time it was a tricycle without much acceleration. Riding it made you feel… silly. Two years later I got…