A scooter or bike whose top speed is only 25 or 35kmph doesn’t really need disc brakes and that too at both ends. Especially, when one can literally stop the scooter or bike with drum brakes as well.

If you worked or lived in a major U.S. city in 2018, you may remember the electric scooter boom. The sudden influx of e-scooters was met with some resistance locally and abroad, but nowadays, I see ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Teo Van Runkle is a journalist who covers the auto industry. On a chilly morning in West LA, I recently test-rode the ...