Segway - ES4

If I were you, I would pay attention to small scooters weighing up to 14 kg, such as Ninebot ES, Xiaomi m365 or analogues. It is better to consider scooters with inflatable tires, they need to be monitored more, but the trips will be more comfortable. With your small weight, if you ride mainly on sidewalks and asphalt, then if there are inflatable wheels, there is no point in suspensions. With your small weight, most suspensions will not add much comfort, but the presence of a suspension in the scooter adds weight to it. Also pay attention to the dimensions, it will be inconvenient to bring a large scooter into the bus / subway. As a person who works physically, carrying heavy loads every day, wearing a scooter weighing even 24 kg is not a pleasure. I don't even recommend a scooter weighing 19 kg to you, it's not just hard, but it can lead to back injuries. If you don't work as a loader, then you won't really like carrying even 14 kg every day. I judge by the example of girls I know who are uncomfortable lifting a Ninebot es4 weighing 14.5 kg, but a xiaomi m365 weighing 12 kg is calmly lifted to the 3rd floor.

If I were you, I would pay attention to small scooters weighing up to 14 kg, such as Ninebot ES, Xiaomi m365 or analogues. It is better to consider scooters with inflatable tires, they need to be monitored more, but the trips will be more comfortable. With your small weight, if you ride mainly on sidewalks and asphalt, then if there are inflatable wheels, there is no point in suspensions. With your small weight, most suspensions will not add much comfort, but the presence of a suspension in the scooter adds weight to it. Also pay attention to the dimensions, it will be inconvenient to bring a large scooter into the bus / subway. As a person who works physically, carrying heavy loads every day, wearing a scooter weighing even 24 kg is not a pleasure. I don't even recommend a scooter weighing 19 kg to you, it's not just hard, but it can lead to back injuries. If you don't work as a loader, then you won't really like carrying even 14 kg every day. I judge by the example of girls I know who are uncomfortable lifting a Ninebot es4 weighing 14.5 kg, but a xiaomi m365 weighing 12 kg is calmly lifted to the 3rd floor.

I exchanged my first Segway ninebot es4-800 bird refurbished deal from Walmart in 2021. It about killed me when going down a hill and touch the brake paddle and the front wheel locked up on me and I somehow didn't fly over the handlebar. Exchanged it for warranty for a Segway ninebot max g30lp and I still own it today. Although not factory anymore, the deck itself has over 10k miles on it. About to put a different motor in that supposedly has stupid amount of torque. Told backflip power around 180amps phase. Gonna probably program to top out at 200amps for the motor on 16s. Some guys are running 30s now with this specific motor to have stupid torque in a single motor and have an 80mph top speed... 32kw is what some are running dual motor.

First and second scooter were made by Voyager. The **Ion** followed by the **Dash Charge Commuter Pro**. I really liked the build in the two of them; with the latter being much more substantial, included a built-in wireless phone charger, and offered cruise control. I’ve since moved into Segway with the ES4 (external secondary battery) and with the number of residential fires involving exploding scooters, I’ll stick with Segway for now.

I own 3, one of them is an ES1. The ES series are rickety pieces of shit. The only thing they have going for them is they are very portable and solid tires which means no flats. The ride is horrible, the acceleration is horrible, they have no hill climbing ability and for that you suffer. 

There was with the Segway ES series, but not really anymore.  There’s no money in it for them. Their profit margins are way better with 100lb scooters with massive batteries, suspensions, that go 50+ mph

All of this. Friends don't let friends buy ES-model scooters. In addition to being awful scooters, they're unrelaible! Lose lose!

Please understand there is zero circumstance a scooter with those battery specs (in either watt hours, or in amp hours depending upon the voltage) is going 28 miles. It's a sad secret of the scooter industry, across brands and price ranges, that in the real world, scooters typically get 50-70% manufacturer range. Also, sidenote, the Ninebot ES-line of scooters have terrible reputations for being bad scooters in addition to be unreliable. Maybe you'll get lucky, but I wouldn't risk it on this thing. Why Walmart, and what's your budget? Maybe we can give better recommendations. Edit to add: yes, scooters for most people are "worth it" to answer your main question. But unless I have exactly zero other options, I would never buy this one from Walmart. You asked two very different questions and kind of mixed them together.

I have an emtb and had a decent Segway scooter (dual suspension on both. both at the same time). The scooter is less effort to ride at 20kph. I only sold it as it wasn’t legal at the time. For commuting about, 100% a scooter is comfier and less sweaty.