This page exists because the KuKirin G2 and the machines around it are what most Irish buyers actually end up with, and almost nobody tells them what they have bought. It is an 800 watt scooter that does 45km/h. The legal ceiling in Ireland is 400 watts and 20km/h. It is over the power limit by a factor of two and over the speed limit by more than that.
What the law actually says
Ireland’s powered personal transporter category covers scooters up to 400W continuous, 20km/h, 25kg, with wheels of at least 200mm, a CE mark, lights, two brakes and a bell. Stay inside those numbers and you need no tax, no insurance and no licence.
Step outside them and the scooter is not a powered personal transporter at all. It becomes a mechanically propelled vehicle, which needs registration, motor tax, insurance and a licence, none of which are available for a machine like this. The practical result is that it cannot be used on a public road, a footpath, a cycle lane or a bus lane. Anywhere.
This is not a technicality anybody is ignoring
In the first half of 2026, An Garda Síochána seized 1,400 e-scooters and brought 800 prosecutions. From late August 2026 the fixed charge for e-scooter offences rises to €100, and getting a detained scooter back is reported at €80 for the first day plus €30 for every day after.
The wider picture is worse for buyers. Children’s Health Ireland reported that more than a third of paediatric traumatic brain injury admissions in 2026 involved e-scooters, with admissions up 50% on the year before. HSE figures record 1,973 emergency department presentations between 2021 and 2025, with under-16s making up 64% of them and 93% of the injured children not wearing a helmet. That is the evidence base the new rules were built on, and it is why the direction of travel is only going one way.
The rest of the range
The G2 is the middle of a family that gets progressively less legal. The G2 Pro is 600W and 45km/h at €509. The G2 Max is 1000W and 55km/h at €699. The G4 is 2000W and 70km/h at €859. The G3 Pro is 2400W and 75km/h at €1,199. The G4 Max is 3200W and 86km/h at €1,849, which is eight times the legal power limit and more than four times the legal speed.
Similar machines from other makers sit alongside them in the same shops: the Ausom DT2 Pro at 2200W and €999, the Rovoron R7 Pro at 1800W and €1,499.
If you buy one anyway
Buy it knowing what it is. The hardware is decent for the money and the suspension and range are genuinely better than anything in the legal category, because the legal category is constrained in ways this is not.
Then ride it on private land with the landowner’s permission, and nowhere else. Not the canal path. Not the estate road at six in the morning. The insurance position is the part people underestimate: if you hit someone, there is no policy behind you, and the liability is yours personally.
What to buy instead
If the scooter is for road use, the legal options in Ireland are thin but they exist. The LOCO Motion Pro at €699 sits at the 400W ceiling and arrives with everything the law requires. The LOCO Lite at €299 is the cheap way in, if you add a bell.
Neither will do 45km/h. That is the trade, and it is the only trade on offer.