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Varla Eagle One V2: Everything You Need to Know

The Varla Eagle One V2 is a dual-motor scooter, not a Class 1–3 e-bike. Varla’s cart: sold out, $1,569 from $1,999, 52V 20.8Ah labeled 1,082Wh, 40 mph claimed, 82 lb. The GPS run was 36.1 mph and 24.4 miles.

By SickEBike desk

The short answer

The Varla Eagle One V2 cart was out of stock at $1,569 against $1,999. The pack is 52 volts and twenty point eight amp-hours, labeled 1,082 watt-hours. Fifty-two times that amp-hour figure is 1,081.6, so the label rounded. Advertised pace is 40 mph. Cart mass is 82 pounds. GPS recorded 36.1 mph and 24.4 miles. Do not average the ad and the GPS.

The Varla Eagle One V2 is a dual-motor kick scooter, not a Class 1, 2, or 3 e-bike, and it is not the original Eagle One. Varla’s product page showed it sold out at $1,569 against a $1,999 regular price. The chips say dual 1,000-watt hubs, a 52-volt 20.8 amp-hour pack, 42 miles, 40-plus mph, a 30-degree climb, and a 330-pound max with 265 recommended. The spec block prints up to 40 mph, 10-by-3.5-inch tubeless tires, dual hydraulic brakes, 82 pounds, a 9-to-10-hour charge on one 2-amp charger, and 5 to 6 hours on two. One feature line says 1,600 watts peak. The battery line says 1,082 watt-hours. Fifty-two times 20.8 is 1,081.6, which they round to 1,082. Electric Scooter Insider’s February 2024 test, a 197-pound rider with a GPS box, measured 36.1 mph against a 40 mph claim, 24.4 miles against 42, and 18 degrees against a 30-degree claim. That review’s price was $1,599, later shown at $1,548 from $1,999. MakeUseOf prints a 3,200-watt peak and a 30-to-35-mile ride. The previous Eagle One, in that piece, was 946 watt-hours and 77 pounds. The row on this desk’s list links here.

Editorial illustration of a kick scooter in a driveway, not a catalog photo
Editorial illustration for this guide. Not a product photo.

40 claimed, 36.1 on the GPS box

The Varla cart, the February 2024 GPS test, and MakeUseOf’s write-up.

Varla’s pageThe test
PriceSold out. $1,569 from $1,999.ESI reviewed it at $1,599 and later showed $1,548 from $1,999, then marked it not available. The list’s ~$1,500 is the neighborhood. It is not the button.
Speed40-plus on a chip. “Up to 40 mph” in the spec block.ESI’s GPS: 36.1 mph. 0–15 in 2.3 seconds, 0–25 in 5.8, 0–30 in 9.3. MakeUseOf repeats forty miles an hour and does not replace the GPS figure.
RangeUp to 42 miles.ESI: 24.4 miles, tester at 197 lb. MakeUseOf: 30 to 35 on their ride. Three results. Do not average 42, 24.4, and 32.5.
Motor1,000W times two. One line: 1,600W peak. Another line: 36 Nm.MakeUseOf prints a 3,200W peak, which is the sum people get by doubling a 1,600-watt motor, or a different peak entirely. Varla printed 1,600. MakeUseOf printed 3,200. Do not collapse them.
Battery52V 20.8Ah, labeled 1,082Wh.Fifty-two times 20.8 is 1,081.6. The label rounds. ESI’s review text calls it 1,082Wh and compares it with the old 946Wh pack. That 946 is the previous Eagle One. Not this one.
Weight82 lb. Max load 330. Recommended 265.MakeUseOf also prints 82, against 77 for the older model. ESI’s sheet prints 82 and 330. The recommended 265 is Varla’s, in the same block as the 330 max.
Hill and charge30° on a chip, “30+” in the spec block. 9–10 hours on one charger, 5–6 on two.ESI’s incline test: 18 degrees, against a 30-degree claim. Their spec sheet prints a 10-hour charge. IP54 is on that review. The Varla block this crawl headed a waterproof line and did not finish the rating in the extract.

The GPS box is the number that will not go away. Varla says 40. ESI measured 36.1 on a 197-pound rider. The range gap is wider: 42 claimed, 24.4 measured in that test, 30 to 35 in a different review. A 1,600-watt peak and a 3,200-watt peak cannot both be the brochure without a sentence that explains the doubling. Sold out is the stock mark on Varla’s own page.

A 40 mph chip that a GPS box read as 36.1 is still not a bicycle. The old 946 watt-hour model is a different scooter.

Who it is for

Buy it, when it is actually in stock, if you wanted the 1,082 watt-hour label and you have already read 24.4 miles. Skip it if the 40 mph chip is the reason and you needed the GPS figure to match. The SPLACH Titan is the other fast scooter ESI priced under the big hypers, with a 32 mph Titan 9 line and a 37 mph Titan 10 line. The Klima is the NAMI that held 42 on ESI’s test. The Mantis King GT is the Kaabo with the 24-versus-25 amp-hour fight.

It fails the class chart. No pedals. One thousand eighty-two watt-hours divided by 42 miles is about 26 watt-hours a mile, on the claim. Divided by ESI’s 24.4, it is about 44. The watt-hour page is the arithmetic.

Questions people ask

Why is the sticker 1,082 when the cells multiply to 1,081.6?+

The cells are 52 volts and twenty point eight amp-hours. Their product is 1,081.6 Wh. The badge says 1,082. A fraction was rounded onto the label. Quote the badge when you are reading the sticker. Quote the product when you are multiplying. That gap is not a second pack and it is not a reason to invent 1,080 either.

What did the instrument capture on the ridden pass?+

A pace of 36.1 miles an hour and a distance of 24.4 miles. Both sit under the advertisement. The advertisement’s pace is forty. A range sentence, if it lives apart from this distance, is not automatically 24.4. One loop is one loop. An empty warehouse can leave the advertisement standing.

Is $1,569 still a button you can press?+

It was the sale against $1,999 while the cart showed unavailable. An unavailable sale is a historical button, not a promise a picker can ship tomorrow. If a new button appears, cite the new button and the date. The 82-pound line is the cart’s mass claim. It is not a reviewer’s bathroom scale unless that review printed a scale.

Does an advertised pace of forty, or a slower GPS trace, create a bicycle class?+

Neither one does. Forty is over 28, and there are no pedals. A GPS trace that comes in slower does not reclassify the vehicle. It only means the advertisement outran the instrument. The Wh page is where 52 times twenty point eight is explained. The class chart is where the pedal rule lives, unchanged by a decimal.

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