We put accounts to know what type of scooter is cheaper per kilometer ... and it is not the electric
Regardless that you like gasoline or the advantages of the “sharing” scooter, which you use when you are interested and disregard it when parking it, and even the advantages (now in question with the rise in the cost of electricity) of the electric scooter,The scooters, in all these facets, are a pure mobility tool.And as such must demonstrate its profitability.
It is not an easy exercise.Each Scooter user has her needs.It is used in one way or another, you like some things or others, the objectives it covers are different and with all these variables it is very difficult to make a general calculation of, in your case, which is the most interesting.Perhaps our accounts serve you to make your own, but we have used the average data we have to draw some conclusions.
The 125 cc scooter of gasoline (the best -selling type today), considering only the economic issue, with an average use of 7,000 kilometers per year, remains the economically more profitable option.Interestingly, that luxury of disregarding the scooter as soon as you park it, it is expensive: it is the one that has a higher cost per kilometer of the three options analyzed.The electric scooter has advantages, of course, but its acquisition cost, although every day closest to gasoline, it still has a differential, if we consider the equivalent of a 125 cc in benefits, which makes it more expensive enough for three years for three years toUse is not the winner of this comparison.Let's see how we have obtained these conclusions.
The purchase: "Moto Sharing" is the best option
Some scooter apps and even a motorcycle can charge you a minimum (one more or less euro) for registering, although normal now is that they charge anything, at least those of Scooter.Against that acquisition price there is nothing to do, but the reality is that the concept of purchase in "Moto Sharing" is zero.
Acquire a 125 scooter ranges from a little less than € 2,000 the cheapest to about € 6,000 the most expensive.For this study we calculate the average cost of a new 125 surely unrealistic, but mathematics: we have taken the 30 most popular scooters and we have found its average price: € 3,327.To round, we consider € 3,325.
An electric scooter, doing the same operation with the most popular 17 (and removing some that unjustifiably rises the average prices) is on an average of about € 5,335, practically € 2,000 more.That will be the data that makes it financially not yet the winner of this analysis.
Taxes, insurance, etc. always to take into account
We are going to behave well with the electric ones.In some (many) municipalities are exempt from the circulation tax, so in our numbers we have considered that this is always.But the truth is that in 125 gasoline scooters we are not talking about an exorbitant cost: the average in Spain of the circulation tax of a vehicle like that is € 5.However, in big cities it is much more;If we want to continue doing a favor to the electric scooter and, considering that these vehicles are really sold in large cities than in other environments, we will double that average: € 10.
Regarding insurance, being legally equal to each other the costs are similar and the average in Spain of this concept is about € 85.The ITV has not considered it (just as we have not included second -hand scooters prices) because we have limited the study to 3 years of use, that is, they would never pass it.Anyway, the cost would be the same in both cases.
Consumption and Maintenance: The Baza de los Electric
The cost of electricity has followed a bullish path, but gasoline also rises and the difference in this cost is very favorable to electric.We have given the data of some electric scooters manufacturers that speak of a consumption of about five times, in money, than a gasoline.
It is also a very flattering panorama for the latter: the consumption of a good 125 such as a Piaggio Medley or a Honda PCX is almost ridiculous, with consumption that touch the 2 liters per 100 kilometers.Even so, the average consumption measured by us in the scooters of 125 of recent years is 3.52 liters to 100 and we will consider that about 7,000 km a year is used, which is the average data in Spain in recentyears before pandemic.Calculating the liter to € 1.41 gives us an expense of € 347.If an electric spends, in money five times less, they are € 69.40 a year.
For the calculation of maintenance we also use market media data obtained according to each type of vehicle, and are reflected in the following table.
The difference between both scooters will be in the change of oil and filters, since wheels brakes and transmission will be similar, although in some cases the electric saves the transmission when carrying the engine in the wheel itself.Let us be: the truth is that due to the continuous delivery of torque surely spend more pneumatic and the lack of retention in other cases will be at the expense of brakes, so "the chickens that come out for those who enter."Even in that case, the annual advantage in consumption and maintenance costs is clear for electric.
In conclusion: Gasoline still
If you analyze all this data, some time still is missing for new technologies to impose themselves totally on efficiency to the veteran gasoline scooter.But it is obvious that it will be a matter of time.If we made these same accounts with the 50 cc scooters, the results would change a lot now: among the cyclomotor you find models whose acquisition price is similar to their fasteners of gasoline and, in that case, the conclusion is turned around.It is an unstoppable drift.It is not so clear in the case of large motorcycles, but the e-scatters approved to 125, at the same price as those of gasoline, is something that we will see soon in a few years.
However, at present this price differential makes not.Observe in the final conclusion table: only the average purchase price makes this comparison tilt on the gas side.Almost € 2,000 of difference in acquisition is an important amount to compensate for maintenance or gasoline.And that makes the cost per kilometer of your nineteenth gasoline scooter of about 26 cents against the 30 cents of the electric.
The "Sharing Moto", third in discord, moves away in the conclusion.It is true that you do not care about maintenance, consumption, insurance, breakdowns or robberies or other problems.But that luxury has a cost: about 38 cents per kilometer if you are going to do those 7,000 on average, without leaving the city at an average of 35 km/h, with a price per minute, something low, of 22 cents.
A very important fact.As you can see in the table, to be able to compare all costs, we amortize the scooter in 3 years, a little true assumption, since then it can be sold second -hand, at a certain price.Perhaps we could include that resale price in gasoline, but it will be difficult in the electric, of which there is hardly any occasion market.Thus the data is comparable between electric and gasoline, and it will be more painful for the scooter “Sharing”, since if we consider that when you sell your scooter you recover 50% of what it cost you when buying it, logically the cost per kilometer will fall a lot.
