Leccy scooters - Seat Mo, Silence S01

Noticed on BikeTrader this morning that Seat Mos are now being sold new for £2495 at various Seat dealers across the country. That's a massive drop & says to me that once they're sold, Seat UK will be dropping them from sale. (The Mo is Seat's branded version of the Silence S01, made in Barcelona)

Is it a good deal for a dealer in Spain to bring a large van here & buy up stock for resale back home? Or maybe £2495 (inc.) is just dealers flogging them off at cost & shows that full retail price had a huge margin built in - coz, well, 'leccy innit, & greenies will pay over-the-odds to virtue signal???

My take on why they're not selling is that the scooter wasn't marketed well by Seat; that using Seat's existing car dealer network to sell them through wasn't a good idea as large dealer groups have no interest in selling a niche product; that PTW customers don't want to buy from a volume seller of cars because the workshop at most main dealers is not very good at fixing cars never mind an electric PTW which the quality of workmanship is even more safety critical on.

Even at £2495 I think I'd pass (if I was in the market for such a bike). That money buys a new Suzuki 125 Address which is far less likely to become a useless garage ornament the moment it has a fault.

Admittedly I'm not in the market for one but the fact I've never heard of them or was aware that Seat was selling them suggests they haven't advertised much

Edit - just had a quick Google they were £5800 !!!

The idea of the battery pulling out so you can charge it at home whilst also immobilizing it seems like a good idea, but bearing in mind I generally see girls and young lads on scooters 41kg sounds like a problem and that it should have been split into two batteries

I suspect battery theft will also be a problem

£2.5k is a great price. That’s very tempting.

Good point. I saw quite a few in Barcelona a fortnight ago (they're made there by Silence). Mostly rentals or fleet scooters for pharmacy deliveries or estate agents to run around on.


Under-seat storage yes, but more suited to an open-face helmet. I don't think it would take a full-face one.

I just can't help but feel that some of the large dealers groups selling them would be worse than useless if one they sold developed a problem. They're already shoite at providing aftercare for the thousands of cars they sell so I can't imagine them being particularly helpful if a leccy scooter they've punted out the door at cost price develops a fault. Plus I know the branch of the large Scottish dealer group near me has had a good few of these sitting gathering dust in a storage room for at least a year with no maintenance charging on their batteries. Not sure what effect that has on them but I doubt a deeply discharged battery on a new leccy scooter is going to aid reliability.

Tempting at the price but I it's a gamble. Might be less hassle just to flush £2495 down the toilet.

Li-ion batteries can be stored for years as long as they are stored charged at the correct voltage and there is nothing to deplete them, so it shouldn't be a problem. Something you would need to check if you end up buying one.

When you pull the battery out little wheels on springs come down. There's an telescopic handle so you can pull it along like a trolley.

Bloody hell.

I half considered one of these.

Thank fook I dodged that. Could have been 4 grand down inside a year.

At £2500 they are a bargain, Quite tempted.

There's a few used ones on AT for more than £3k, a couple up for more than £4k.

SEATs website has the vibe of a dying brand.

I guess it'll disappear pretty soon with just CUPRA remaining.

Just imagine how it might have gone if Silence had teamed up with Tesla or one of the premium German car manufacturers. Could have been a different story.

I get the tie-up with Seat, but outside of Spain it did nothing for them.