For some electric scooter riders, modest speeds of 15-20 mph (24-40 km/h) are plenty. For others who want to travel on larger roads or cover farther distances on their scooter commutes, faster speeds are necessary. It’s those types of riders that Nanrobot had in mind when they rolled out their latest model, the Nanrobot N6.
With a top speed of 40 mph (65 km/h), this electric scooter definitely has those faster scooter riders covered.
And unlike some imported scooters, it didn’t leave me with that rickety feeling that can leave me shying away from fully utilizing the top speed.
To see my testing in full living color, check out my video review below. Then keep on scrolling for my complete thoughts!
Nanrobot N6 video review
Nanrobot N6 tech specs
Motors: Dual 1,000W hub motors
Battery: 52V 26Ah (1,352 Wh)
Top speed: 40 mph (65 km/h)
Range: 40 miles (65 km)
Weight: 88 lb (40 kg)
Load capacity: 330 lb (150 kg)
Brakes: Front and rear hydraulic disc brakes
Tires: 10-inch pneumatic off-road tires
Lights: Front and rear LED
More power, more speed
Fast electric scooters can be a lot of fun, but they can also be pricey. Last month, I tested out the 2023 Apollo Pro and hit speeds of over 40 mph (65 km/h), but that didn’t come cheap. At closer to $3,000, the Apollo Pro is a fantasy for many budget-minded riders.
Scooters like the Nanrobot N6 try to deliver similar performance at a better price, even if they come with a shorter feature list. And with a price tag of $1,899, the N6 here offers up that performance in a much more affordable package.
While I wasn’t traveling at 40 mph all of the time, I certainly enjoyed taking it to the limit often. If you’re going to give me that power, I won’t make you suffer the insult of not using it.
I also made sure to wear a full-face helmet as well as Nanrobot’s armored jacket when riding at fast speeds, as you never know when you’ll need the extra protection.
That being said, there’s, of course, a time and a place for such high speeds. And that time and place was on a road with 45 mph speed limits and a decently wide bike lane painted on the side of it.
Of course, I would never ride that fast in a city bike lane, but most cyclists don’t even use these Florida bike lanes since they’re painted on the side of 45-50 mph roads. Instead, most cyclists use the multiuse paths set 20 feet back off of the road, leaving us to enjoy the wide-open bike lanes on the side of the death roads.
The ability to go that fast is thanks to a pair of 1,000W hub motors putting out some serious power. They draw that juice from the large 52V and 26Ah battery offering 1,352 Wh of capacity. Nanrobot says the battery is made from UL-listed Samsung cells, though I doubt the finished pack is UL-listed itself.
With that much battery beneath your sneakers, you’re pretty much never going to come up short on range unless you forget to charge it. I think you’d find it hard to get less than 30 miles (48 km) of range per charge, and many people who ride at more modest city speeds will find that they’re getting closer to 45 or 50 miles (72-80 km) of range.
The scooter even includes a second charge port just in case you want to pick up a second charger to fill up that battery even more quickly.
Comfortable at all speeds
As much fun as it is riding fast, most of my time was spent at speeds in the 20-30 mph range, or closer to 32-40 km/h. It’s just more common to cruise at those speeds around the city and in neighborhoods.
No matter what speed I was going, the scooter was quite comfortable to ride. The suspension is actually quite decent, and the scooter felt plenty nimble underneath me.
The 360-degree lighting also makes me feel better about riding at night since the deck lighting gives me side visibility in addition to my headlights and taillights, which let cars know when I am coming or going.
The brakes are also nice and grippy, giving me confident stops with hydraulic braking.
The folding mechanism is fairly comfortable to use. It has a big screw wheel that you spin around like the crank on a fire hydrant so you know it’s good and closed. Then the stem folds down and locks into the deck with a big metal catch so you know it’s locked and ready to be carried. At 88 pounds (40 kg), I wouldn’t recommend trying to carry it very far. But it is possible to lift it confidently into a car since you know the catch keeps it folded.
One major complaint
My one big gripe about the Nanrobot N6 is shared with many other scooters of this style: the throttle. It uses an index-finger pull throttle, which is similar in style to a small brake lever. It’s also placed right above the brake lever so that it’s very easy to move from one to the other. That also means it’s very easy for newcomers to e-scooters to get confused between the two.
I’ve never been a fan of index finger throttles due to their proximity to the brake levers, and I haven’t changed that opinion this time, either.
I’m not even a fan of thumb throttles (why would you want to use any type of lever as a throttle on a vehicle that you’re constantly bouncing around on?), but I’d at least call that an upgrade over the throttle they give us.
Sum it all up
At $1,899, you better give me some good performance when I’m paying this much cash. And the Nanrobot N6 seems to deliver.
It’s fast, powerful, and comfortable, all at the same time. The folding feels sturdy, the scooter is nice and nimble, and the entire package feels well thought out.
I’ll never like that throttle design, but it’s the one major sin on the entire scooter. Other than that, I’m pretty darn happy with the N6.
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U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.
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Renewable energy giants appear relatively sanguine about U.S. President Donald Trump‘s anti-wind policies, describing the process of replacing fossil fuels with electrically powered products as “absolutely unstoppable.”
In a standalone executive order, which had been widely expected, the president temporarily suspended new or renewed leases for offshore and onshore wind projects and halted the leasing of wind power projects on the outer continental shelf.
“We are not going to do the wind thing. Big ugly windmills, they ruin your neighborhood,” Trump told his supporters at the Capital One Area in Washington on Monday. He previously described wind turbines as an economic and environmental “disaster.”
The measures formed part of a much broader energy offensive designed to “unleash” already booming oil and gas production. This included declaring a national energy emergency, promoting fossil fuel drilling in Alaska and signing an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the landmark Paris Agreement.
Joe Kaeser, chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens Energy, one of the world’s biggest renewables players, seemed unfazed by Trump’s sweeping energy agenda. In fact, Kaeser considered the policies a “slight plus” for the German energy technology group.
Shares of Siemens Energy jumped more than 8% on Wednesday morning, hitting a new 52-week high.
“We need to see what’s behind all the executive orders and the policies. So far, I believe there are many areas where actually Siemens Energy benefits a lot,” Kaeser told CNBC’s Dan Murphy at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday.
There will be uncertainty for low-carbon energy sectors, such as onshore and offshore wind, Kaeser said, before adding that Trump’s measures were unlikely to directly impact Siemens Energy. That’s partly because roughly 80% of the firm’s wind market is in Europe, Kaeser said.
“So, I believe that doesn’t move the needle. I’m much more worried about the European economies and how they deal with a very powerful nation, with a very powerful concept. We may or may not like it, because it’s got some nationalistic type of things, but if we look at it from the view of the American people, we better get something going,” Kaeser said.
Beyond onshore and offshore wind, Kaeser said Siemens Energy was well positioned to capitalize from a “booming” electrification market.
“Think about the data centers, artificial intelligence, we have waiting times now on large gas turbines. Actually, customers are coming and saying, hey can I make a reservation and I’ll pay you for a reservation? Just think about that. It hasn’t happened for a long time,” Kaeser said.
“I believe the electrification age has just begun. Whether that’s gas turbines or wind or solar or something else, we’ve got everything, and the customers decide in the end. And one thing I believe one should not underestimate, the White House is not buying much [but] the customer does,” he added.
‘Very, very optimistic’
Spanish renewable energy giant Iberdrola was similarly bullish about the road to full electrification, describing the transition away from fossil fuels as “absolutely unstoppable.”
“We are seeing that probably we are in the best moment for electrification,” Ignacio Galán, executive chairman of Iberdrola, told CNBC at WEF on Tuesday.
Galán cited soaring global demand for electrically powered data centers, low-emission vehicles as well as cooling and heating applications.
A logo on the nacelle of a wind turbine at the Martin de la Jara wind farm, operated by Iberdrola SA, in the Martin de la Jara district of Sevilla, Spain, on Friday, April 21, 2023.
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“All of those things require more electricity 24 hours a day. Our business in the United States is mostly in this area, which is networks … and the regulation depends on the state authority, so I think that is not really affected at all,” Galán said.
“Depending on the legislation, we will make more or less investment in another part of our business,” he added, referring to Trump’s energy policy.
“We are very, very optimistic about the United States and the future,” Galán said.
Wind power woes
Shares of some European wind power giants fell shortly after Trump took aim at wind power plans.
Denmark’s Orsted, which recently announced a roughly $1.7 billion impairment charge on U.S. projects, dipped 4.4% on Wednesday morning, extending steep losses from the previous session.
The rapidly growing offshore wind sector has endured a torrid time in recent years, hampered by rising costs, supply chain disruption and higher interest rates.
Windmills pictured during a press moment of Orsted, on Tuesday 06 August 2024, on the transportation of goods with Heavy Lift Cargo Drones to the offshore wind turbines in the Borssele 1 and 2 wind farm in Zeeland, Netherlands.
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Artem Abramov, head of new energies research at Rystad Energy, said Trump’s energy agenda essentially means the likelihood of any new offshore developments in the U.S. has fallen to zero — at least for now.
“The US currently has around 2.4 gigawatts (GW) of advanced-stage offshore wind developments that have reached final investment decision and are under construction, which are unlikely to be impacted by the order,” Abramov said in a research note published Tuesday.
“Moderate risk amid the unfavorable investment climate is present for 10.5 GW of projects which secured necessary permits but have not reached investment decisions,” Abramov said.
“The remaining 25 GW of early-stage projects are unlikely to see any progress under the current administration,” he added.
— CNBC’s Spencer Kimball contributed to this report.
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The Stripe logo on a smartphone with U.S. dollar banknotes in the background.
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Stripe cut 300 jobs, representing about 3.5% of its workforce, mostly in product, engineering and operations, CNBC has confirmed.
The payments company, valued at about $70 billion in the private markets, still expects to increase headcount by 10,000 by the end of the year, which would be a 17% increase, and is “not slowing down hiring,” according to a memo to staff from Chief People Office Rob McIntosh. Business Insider reported earlier on the cuts and the memo.
A Stripe spokesperson also confirmed to CNBC that a cartoon image of a duck with text that read, “US-Non-California Duck,” was accidentally attached as a PDF to emails sent to some of the employees who were laid off. Some of the emails mistakenly provided affected employees with an incorrect termination date, the spokesperson said.
McIntosh sent a follow-up email to staffers apologizing for the “notification error” and “any confusion it caused.”
“Corrected and full notifications have since been sent to all impacted Stripes,” he wrote.
In 2022, Stripe cut roughly 1,100 jobs, or 14% of its workers, downsizing alongside most of the tech industry, as soaring inflation and rising interest rates forced companies to focus on profits over growth. The Information reported that Stripe had a few dozen layoffs in its recruiting department in 2023.
Stripe’s valuation sank from a peak of $95 billion in 2021 to $50 billion in 2023, before reportedly rebounding to $70 billion last year as part of a secondary share sale. The company ranked third on last year’s CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
In October, Stripe agreed to pay $1.1 billion for crypto startup Bridge Network, whose technology is focused on making it easy for businesses to transact using digital currencies.
Brothers Patrick and John Collison, who founded Stripe in 2010, have intentionally steered clear of the public markets and have given no indication that an offering is on the near-term horizon. Total payment volume at the company surpassed $1 trillion in 2023.