Apollo City Pro: Everything You Need to Know

The Apollo City Pro is the dual-motor commuter scooter Apollo sold before the 2026 redesign, not a Class 1–3 e-bike and not the scooter in the cart today. The 2023–2024 sheet is two 500-watt motors, 1,000 watts nominal and about 2,000 watts peak, 32 mph claimed, a 48-volt 20-amp-hour pack (960 watt-hours), dual drum brakes plus regen, and a listed weight of 65 pounds. Electric Scooter Guide tested 31.2 mph and 21.9 miles with a 215-pound rider. On 2 July 2026 Apollo opened preorders for the City 2.0 and the City Stellar, with shipping in the fourth quarter. Those are the replacements. The City Pro’s brakes were drums. They were not hydraulic discs.

What the City Pro actually was

Apollo’s still-up City 2024 page calls the dual-motor scooter Apollo City, and it is sold out at a listed $1,399. The spec block on that page is the City Pro people are searching: 500 watts times two nominal, 1,000 watts times two peak, 32 mph, Eco 9 / Normal 20 / Sport 32, 48 volts 20 amp-hours, a claimed travel distance of 23 to 43 miles, dual drum and regen, triple-spring suspension, 10-inch self-healing tubeless tires, 65 pounds, a 265-pound rider limit, IP66, and UL 2271 plus UL 2272. Electric Scooter Guide’s 2023 City Pro sheet matches the bones and disagrees on two lines: it prints a 20-degree max incline and a 960-watt-hour pack, and it lists the scooter at $1,799. Apollo’s 2024 page prints 25 degrees. Forty-eight times twenty is 960. That watt-hour figure is ESG’s, not a second battery.

Earlier City Pros were the 18-amp-hour pack. A 2023 owner video still quotes 48 volts and 18 amp-hours, which is 864 watt-hours, and a claimed range nearer 38 miles. If a used listing says City Pro and does not say 20 amp-hours, ask. The name covered more than one tank.

Forty-three miles is the brochure

Electric Scooter Guide’s Mitchell, 215 pounds, got 21.9 miles on a charge of the 960-watt-hour City Pro. That is about 44 watt-hours per mile. The 43-mile claim is about 22 watt-hours per mile, which is an Eco loop with a lighter rider, not a 32 mph commute. The same desk’s GPS top speed was 31.2 against a 32 mph claim. Close on speed. Half on range. That is the useful sentence. A 2024 review on YouTube walks the drums, the regen, and a range loop of that year’s City Pro. It is not this desk’s loop, and it is not a promise that your hill matches theirs.

Drums, not hydraulics

This desk’s scooter list used to say the City Pro had hydraulic brakes. That was wrong. Apollo’s page says dual drum and regen. Electric Scooter Guide’s sheet says drum plus drum plus dual regenerative. Electric Scooter Insider timed a stop from 15 mph in 2.1 meters and liked the drums because dust and water do not fade an enclosed shoe the way they fade an open rotor. Regen strength is an app setting, not a second disc. The hydraulic-brake Apollo in that era was a Ghost option, a different scooter. Do not buy a City Pro because someone promised you discs.

The City Pro’s party trick was two motors and a finished commute. It was not a hydraulic brake.

What Apollo is selling instead

The 2 July 2026 release, from Montreal, opened preorders for two scooters and said shipping was the fourth quarter. City 2.0: one motor, 1,900 watts peak, the same 48-volt 18-amp-hour pack printed as 864 watt-hours, 32 mph, 40 miles claimed, AirFlow suspension, dual drums plus regen, 10-inch self-healing tires, IP66, 72 pounds, 265-pound limit, a DOT 2.0 display, the app, NFC, and Apple Find My. City Stellar: the dual-motor version, 34 mph, 37 miles claimed, 83 pounds, same pack and same brakes. The release’s paragraph says 1,200 watts times two peak. The table in the same release says 1,350 times two. Apollo’s product page, read later, also calls the 2.0 motor a 1,200-watt unit that peaks at 1,900. Nominal and peak are not the same number. Neither is a Class 2 watt rating, because this is not a bicycle.

Prices moved inside one season. The press release printed MSRPs of $1,749 and $1,999, and preorder prices of $1,449 and $1,599. The product page this desk read showed the 2.0 at $1,399 and the Stellar at $1,599, and a FAQ on that page said $1,299 and $1,499. The 2.0 page also said expected delivery in December 2026. Buy the number in the cart. Warranty language on the new page is 12 months on the scooter and lifetime on the frame. UL 2271 and UL 2272 are on the 2.0 page. IP66 means rain, not a pressure washer and not a puddle you can sink the deck in.

It is not an e-bike

No pedals, no class sticker, no 750-watt bicycle definition. A Class 1, 2, or 3 bike is a bicycle. A City Pro is a stand-up scooter. Cities that cap scooters at 15 or 20 do not care that Sport says 32. New York’s shared-scooter rules and a Florida path sign are different documents from Apollo’s app. The Segway Max G3 is the commuter this desk put at the top of the scooter list: one motor, about 20 mph as shipped, a tested range that also misses the Eco headline. The City Pro was the step up in motors and the step up in weight. The Stellar is that step again, at 83 pounds. If you have to carry it up stairs, 65 was already a negotiation and 83 is a no.

Buy a used City Pro if the pack is the 20-amp-hour one, the drums still stop you, and the price reflects a scooter Apollo has replaced. Buy the 2.0 if the job is range and one motor is enough. Buy the Stellar if you wanted the dual-motor City and you can lift 83 pounds. Do not buy any of them to ride a bike trail that says bicycles. And do not read 32 mph as the speed your city allows.