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RIDE REVIEW I 2025 KAWASAKI ELEKTRODE 20
cerned about the speed the little
single-gear 20 can go; 24 mph is
not that fast, but when you have
a skinny 7-year-old on board, the
Elektrode will get there quickly.
As a result, Harvey is re
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stricted to the middle range of
throttle,
which seems about
right for both slow-speed trail
riding and higher-speed ripping
around places like soccer fields.
The range depends entirely
on how your kid rides the 20. If
Harvey holds the thing flat out,
he'll get around 45 minutes of
run time in the medium mode.
Slow-speed riding, like the trials
he practices each day on the
The battery is a frame-mount
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ed lithium-ion unit with a capac-
ity of 50.4V and 10.2 amp-hours.
Kawasaki
states you'll get about
an hour's ride in the high and
mid ranges and three hours on
the low range.
If you run the bike fully flat,
it will take approximately four
hours to charge on a 110V AC
outlet, using the charging con
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nector located on the underside
of
the frame. If you've only got
about an hour to go for a ride,
you can charge it for about 20
minutes from flat and still get a
decent ride in.
I'll admit to being a tad con
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Fast forward a couple of
years,
and after the success of
the first Elektrode, the big boy
20-incher has landed. It's avail-
able in two forms, one with front
suspension
and one without,
although curiously they have the
same retail price at $2199.
The same in-wheel electric
motor resides in the new model,
its capacity boosted threefold
to 750W (one horsepower). It
is significantly faster than the
16-incher. It'll go 13 mph in slow
mode and 24 mph in both me
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dium- and high-power modes,
with
the high mode having a
more direct throttle response.
Those front forks, although tiny, make quite a difference compared to a rigid front end.
