{"id":218909,"date":"2025-07-28T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/insane-100-mph-e-turbo-scooter-accelerates-as-fast-as-a-tesla"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:08:19","slug":"insane-100-mph-e-turbo-scooter-accelerates-as-fast-as-a-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/insane-100-mph-e-turbo-scooter-accelerates-as-fast-as-a-tesla","title":{"rendered":"Insane 100-mph e-Turbo scooter accelerates as fast as a Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/insane-100-mph-e-turbo-scooter-accelerates-as-fast-as-a-tesla2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK-based mobility company Bo has racing in its blood, and its latest creation is designed to bring that heritage to the forefront in the form of a high-performance electric scooter subtly named the Turbo.<\/p>\n<p>It might look a lot like <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/urban-transport\/bo-m-electric-scooter-production\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">the consumer-grade M model that Bo revealed in 2023<\/a>, but after 18 months in the garage, it\u2019s mutated into an absolute fire-breather that\u2019s built to exceed 100 mph (160 km\/h) and \u2013 according to Bo\u2019s initial testing \u2013 accelerate quicker than a Tesla Model 3.<\/p>\n<p>How do you push a 15 mph (25 km\/h) scooter all the way up past the 100-mph mark? The same powertrain simply wouldn\u2019t cut it, so the Turbo got twin electric motors, each rated for over 300A peak current, along with a new 88-V 1,800-Wh battery to deliver plenty more power on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based mobility company Bo has racing in its blood, and its latest creation is designed to bring that heritage to the forefront in the form of a high-performance electric scooter subtly named the Turbo. It might look a lot like the consumer-grade M model that Bo revealed in 2023, but after 18 months in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}