2025 Ausom L1 Review

The Ausom L1 is a budget electric scooter that punches well above its price tag in ways that are hard to ignore. The Freshly Charged team took it out for a full real world range test across the trails of southern Utah, and what came back surprised us. If you are looking for genuine speed and range without breaking the bank and you live somewhere reasonably flat, this one is worth your attention.

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There is a pretty firm ceiling on what you can expect from a sub-$600 electric scooter. Soft top speeds, minimal features, and suspension that exists mostly on paper. The Ausom L1 is trying to blow that ceiling off, and after putting it through a full range test across the trails of southern Utah, we can confirm that they mostly succeed (with a few caveats).

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What You Get for the Money

Priced this low, it turns heads that the feature list reads like something from a scooter priced a few hundred dollars higher. Color display, NFC card reader lock with passcode backup, adjustable handlebar height from 36 to 44 inches, front and rear swing arm suspension, mechanical disc brakes on both ends with ABS electric braking, a four LED adjustable headlight, and built in turn signals with a horn. At this price, any one of those features would be a pleasant surprise. Getting all of them is genuinely unusual.

The cockpit is well organized. Throttle, power button, and speed level controls sit on the right alongside the mechanical brake lever. The left mirrors it with its own brake lever and the turn signal and horn buttons. Both levers engage electric braking in addition to the mechanical discs. One small oddity: the walk mode button with the walk symbol does nothing when pressed. Not a dealbreaker, but worth noting.

Build and Hardware

The fold mechanism uses a knob styled like a water faucet that loosens the stem, combined with a secondary safety latch that acts as a redundancy if the primary mechanism gives out. If you extend the handlebars to fit, the whole thing will lock into the rear kick plate when folded. At just over 60 pounds it is not featherweight, but definitely manageable for carrying up a flight of stairs. The handlebar grips earn a quiet compliment here too, locked in place so they do not rotate under load, with a palm cutout that reduces fatigue on longer rides.

Inside the deck sits a 48V battery just under 750Wh. Up front and in the rear, 10x2.75 inch tubeless pneumatic tires with 140mm brake discs handle contact with the ground. The four LED headlight angle is adjustable on the stem, and the rear tail light doubles as a brake light.

Speed and Range

Ausom claims 28 mph. The team ran the L1 with a Dragy GPS unit and confirmed 30 mph, with 31 showing on the display. Worth being transparent about the nature of that run though: it took over a minute of full throttle riding to reach that peak, and 0 to 20 mph came in around 10 seconds. This is not a scooter with snappy acceleration. Sport mode helps, but there is not a lot of torque on tap. Think of the top speed as a cruise ceiling rather than something you are reaching at every stoplight.

Range testing was done on Strava across a combined 18.72 miles with 443 feet of elevation gain, averaging 16.9 mph. That is a real world result, not a manufacturer figure, and it holds up well for the class. Even at 40 percent battery the scooter was still pulling 25 mph, which is better behavior than competitors that throttle output significantly once you drop below half charge.

On the Road

The front and rear spring swing arm suspension does its job smoothing out road chatter and minor surface imperfections. Travel is limited, so do not expect it to absorb anything dramatic. The tubeless pneumatic tires handled packed dirt and loose gravel without complaint during testing, and light off-roading is genuinely on the table. However, the tires are slightly narrow for the speeds this scooter is capable of, and that showed during a close call in a fast turn during testing.

Steep hills are an example of something off the table. The L1 stalled on an aggressive grade near the end of the range test with battery low, and even in better conditions the single 800W rear motor is going to struggle with sustained climbs. Riders in hilly areas should look at Ausom's dual motor options instead, such as the Ausom L2 Max Dual Motor Electric Scooter. At speed, the geometry of the L1 rewards leaning into turns and punishes attempts to steer with the handlebars alone. That is manageable once you know it, but new riders should expect an adjustment period, especially if they are used to different scooters.

Where It Falls Short

Turn Signals: Something that was quite puzzling was the placement of the turn signals: they are mounted low on the rear of the deck, in addition to being small and not particularly bright. Meaning...most other riders and drivers are not going to see them, which defeats the purpose. On another note, the headlight, while boasting four LEDs and being adjustable, is mounted low on the stem and the spread suffers for it.

Charge Time: The 10 hour charge time from empty to full is a meaningful inconvenience for a scooter in daily commuter rotation.

Lack of Dealers: Unfortunately, there are also no local dealers and parts ship from the source. If you are comfortable with basic maintenance and occasional tinkering, none of that is a problem. If you need a plug and play ownership experience with local service support, factor that into your decision.

The Freshly Charged Verdict

The Ausom L1 is for riders who want real speed and genuine range without crossing the $600 line, and who live somewhere reasonably flat. It outperforms its price tag in ways that matter and underperforms in ways that are predictable and largely forgivable, which is a much harder balance to strike than it sounds.

• Current price of the Ausom L1: https://bit.ly/47Xx7Oa
• Use coupon code FreshlyCharged to save $50 on any Ausom electric scooter!