From Guest Blogger Mark Sze-To: Electric Scooters from Germany Are Now Available in the U.S.

Electric Avenue Scooters + Motorbikes is a company that has been operating in Austin, Texas for almost 4 years now, and has been helping people avoid the need for using cars by selling them high quality electric scooters. It is the firm belief of founder, Mark Sze-To, that the best way to mitigate global warming and other environmental crises is to provide alternative consumer products that out-mode those that exacerbate pollution and global warming most significantly. He feels that one of these most egregiously harmful product classes is the internal combustion automobile. So, Electric Avenue has been servicing gas powered scooters (and electric powered scooters) with the intent of enticing the vehicle buying public to adopt high-quality electric scooters to replace or displace automobile usage. Achieving increasing success in this regard, the company is now introducing GOVECS scooters from Germany. Electric Avenue is the first to import them into the US and thinks they will do well.

GOVECS electric scooters are notable because, says Mark Sze-To, relative to other scooters Electric Avenue has sold and serviced, the GOVECS have really high quality (most of the EV bugs have been worked out to the fullest extent). For the widest-spread EV adoption to occur, products need to be reasonably priced, and very durable, with a company that is easily accessible for good after-sales servicability. And, while many brands of electric scooter that have been previously introduced to the market, various grey market products manufactured in China, have perhaps fulfilled the low-price requirement, but their quality and manufacturer support has been lacking, leading, unfortunately, to erosion of the EV scooter market in many different ways. Winning E-scooter of the Year Award three years in a row in Europe (2011 to 2013), the GOVECS scooters and their well-run company does not seem to fall into this category – making them worthy of note and enticing to buy.