ES2

The ES2 is a product of the 2015 merger that reshaped the personal-mobility industry: Beijing startup Ninebot, backed by $80M from Xiaomi and Sequoia, acquired the original American self-balancing pioneer Segway Inc. to form Segway-Ninebot. The combined company pivoted from expensive self-balancing transporters toward affordable folding kick-scooters for the urban mass market. The KickScooter ES line (ES1, ES2, ES4) arrived in 2017-2018 as that push, sharing a chassis with — and directly rivalling — the Xiaomi M365. Launched in 2018, the ES2 slotted in as the middle child: more powerful and better-equipped than the entry ES1, and upgradeable to the twin-battery ES4 via a bolt-on external pack. It became one of the defining early commuter e-scooters of the 2018-2020 micromobility boom and a common sight in shared fleets and private garages across Europe.