The high cost of gasoline has encouraged people to leave their cars in the garage and use two or three wheeled vehicles that use electricity. The electric scooter is one such vehicle. It is a type of motorcycle with a step-through frame and usually with smaller wheels designed for urban transportation. Some scooters are powered by batteries but more and more manufacturers are developing fuel cell technology and applying it to transportation vehicles. Also, petroleum hybrid-electric motorcycles are under development.

Electric scooters are nearly silent and do not emit exhausted gases. It is environmentally friendly in that way. Charging of batteries can be done at home; you don’t have to make a trip to a gas station every time you ran out of energy supply. It requires little maintenance activities and therefore minimal maintenance cost. Electric bikes and scooters have a practical contribution in our present transportation dilemma.