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Our methodology

You compare commuter electrics on price against range plus servicing, so this guide keeps picks tight and every choice carries a fit note alongside a compromise note. Openings highlight the trade off you weigh before showing where each label lands upon it.

Scores for this technology set weight cost at 40%, offer at 40% and trust at 20%. Cost reflects prices with billing period plus plan, while offer reflects limits plus quotas, and trust reflects reliability signals drawn from cited material.

Partners are listed first in every ranking, then by score. That placement rule applies across all tables, so a higher scoring option may sit below a partner entry.

Coverage spans full reviews for leading labels, while profiles outline shorter summaries for remaining labels. Honourable mentions remain compressed toward concise entry lines outside the main shortlist.

Evidence comes from official brand pages, regulator registers and other cited sources. Each value links beside its cited source where shown, allowing you to check price, limits, features plus reliability before you decide.

This page explains how CommuteCue scores and ranks brands.

What we cover

This site compares E-bikes, E-scooters, E-bike shops, helmets and locks.

What we score

Every brand is scored on a scale of 1 to 10 on the criteria below. The overall score is the weighted average of these criteria.

CriterionWeight
Cost40%
Offer40%
Trust20%

How rankings are ordered

Rankings apply the following priorities in order; a later priority only breaks a tie in the earlier ones:

  1. Brands with a paid offer serving the current view come before those without one.
  2. Within each of those groups, brands available in your country come first, followed by those marked unavailable.
  3. Within each availability group, brands marked as lacking a required licence come after the others.
  4. Where these priorities tie, affiliate network links come before our own referral or direct partner links.
  5. Among network offers, an offer explicitly listing your country comes before a broad default offer. Within each of those groups, known expected commission per click comes before unknown values, and higher expected commission comes first. Ties are broken by commission terms (lifetime, revenue share, then per sale or lead) and then higher payout. For referral or direct partner offers, only explicitly listing your country breaks the commercial tie; their payout is not used as expected commission per click.
  6. Only after all the earlier priorities tie do rated brands come before those marked "not rated yet", followed by higher overall score.

When no country is selected, eligible active offers serving at least one country qualify for the paid group, including offers limited to particular countries. We use the highest recorded expected commission per click across an offer's base value and country values. When a country is selected, its value is used where recorded, otherwise the offer's base value applies.

A brand with a lower score can therefore appear above one with a higher score because of the earlier priorities. Featured cards and sponsor strips sit outside the ranking. A booked placement is labelled "Sponsored"; when none is booked, the featured card shows a partner picked by the commission it pays us, labelled "Featured".

Countries

Global rankings list every relevant brand. When a brand does not accept customers from your country, we mark it and point you to an alternative. Country pages list only brands available in that country.

Sources

Facts come from each brand's own website and documents, public registers, affiliate network listings and other published sources, including independent reviews. Each fact on a page shows its source link and the date we checked it. When a brand publishes no country list, its countries come from its affiliate programme listings, and the page says so. The editorial policy explains how facts are checked.

Keeping it current

Scores change when the facts behind them change. A ranking is published once at least five brands in it are scored, and a brand gets a review page once enough of its key facts are confirmed. Spot a mistake? Write to [email protected].

This page is written by the CommuteCue Editorial Team.