Best Electric Tricycle for Adults: Picks by Need

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We compare eight adult electric trikes, and they are closer together than their prices suggest. Six have 500 W motors and two have 750 W. Published top speeds run from 14 to 20 mph, batteries from 624 to 960 Wh, list prices from $1,350 to $2,000. What really separates them is battery, weight and speed cap, so the picks below follow the problem you are solving rather than one league table.

Two limits. The site has not ridden any of these, so every pick rests on published figures and arithmetic. And spec sheets do not answer every fit question, so where a maker leaves a gap, we say what to ask. The Mooncool CD1 is excluded as a youth model. For every adult trike in one table, see the 3-wheel e-bike guide.

The short answer

Miles below use the 30 Wh-per-mile planning rate explained in the note at the end.

Stability: what the spec table can and cannot rank

Stability is why you buy a trike, and a spec sheet cannot rank it on its own: track width, wheelbase and seat height decide it together. One published figure does bear on it. The sideways force a corner demands grows with the square of speed, so the same bend at 20 mph asks about twice as much of a trike as at 14 mph ((20 / 14) squared is 2.04). On that arithmetic alone, Lectric XP Trike2 is the cautious choice.

The cap limits what the motor pushes you to, not what a descent does, so treat it as a tiebreaker. On any three-wheeler the tipping risk is a hard turn on a slope: slow before the bend, not in it.

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For a rider whose balance is the problem, a trike removes the fall at a standstill. The reasons people stop using one are duller: too heavy to move, an uncomfortable seat, a gate it will not fit through.

Getting on, and sitting

Makers publish a standover height, the frame at its lowest point, from 8.5 in on the Emojo Bull to 16 in on the Mooncool TK2 and TK2 PRO. Compare it with something you already step over comfortably, such as a curb or the bottom stair. If the frame is higher, the trike fails at the job you bought it for. Ask which seat ships and whether a backrest is included, and if you can, practice getting on and off before ordering.

The weight you have to manage

Every maker lists a weight. Emojo’s include the battery: 80 lb for the Bull and 93 lb for the Dexter and Dexter Jr. Lectric lists the XP Trike2 at 79 lb without its 7 lb battery. Mooncool gives net weights of 90.4 lb for the TK2, 97.02 lb for the TK Pro, 99.2 lb for the TK2 PRO and 48 kg, about 105.8 lb, for the FT1. Few people can lift that, so ask whether you can roll it with the power off, up a curb cut, and into wherever it lives. Weight also sets the price of a flat battery. At the planning rate 960 Wh covers about 32 miles, 720 Wh about 24 and 624 Wh about 21, so leave a margin rather than riding to the last mile with 97 lb to push home.

Makers list overall widths from 28 in (Emojo Bull) to 30.7 in (Mooncool FT1), so measure the narrowest gate, door or hallway between the street and where the trike will sleep against your model’s figure. Lectric and Mooncool describe the XP Trike2, TK Pro and TK2 PRO batteries as removable, so they can charge indoors rather than at the end of an extension cord; for the others, ask whether the battery lifts out.

The first weeks

A trike steers rather than leans, and it follows the camber of the road, so you hold a light pressure against the pull toward the curb. Practice on quiet, flat streets. A trike is not automatically safer than a bicycle: it removes the standstill fall but adds an inside wheel that can lift in a fast corner. If the rear axle is yours to fit, pay a bike shop.

Our two picks for older riders

For short, slow, local trips we would pick Lectric XP Trike2: its 14 mph cap is the lowest published and 624 Wh is more battery than a few miles of errands will use. Lectric lists it at 79 lb without its 7 lb battery. For anything longer, or any hills, we would pick Mooncool TK Pro, where the 960 Wh pack is less about range than margin: it stops a long ride ending in a push.

Cargo, hills and heavier riders

Every maker publishes a load limit: 450 lb for the Mooncool TK2, TK Pro and TK2 PRO, 415 lb for the Lectric XP Trike2 (riders up to 330 lb), 400 lb for the Mooncool FT1, 330 lb for the Emojo Bull and 300 lb for the Dexter and Dexter Jr. Emojo’s limits count rider and cargo together; Mooncool’s pages do not say, so check before you load one. A 220 lb rider carrying 40 lb on a 97 lb trike is moving 357 lb, and the trike is about 27% of that. Plan on 35 Wh per mile when loaded or hilly: about 27 miles from 960 Wh, about 18 from 624 Wh.

The TK Pro and TK2 PRO are the only adult trikes above 500 W. The extra watts give push from a standstill and on a climb, where a loaded trike works hardest; they do not raise top speed.

Budget: where the money goes

At $1,500 and under you get 500 W motors and 624 to 720 Wh. Both 960 Wh trikes start at $1,700. The cheapest adult trike is the fat-tire Mooncool FT1 at $1,350 and 696 Wh, which at $1.94 per Wh is second only to the TK Pro. Stepping from it to the TK Pro adds $350 for 264 Wh more battery and 250 W more motor, or $1.33 per extra Wh, though fat tires make that step not like for like.

Before paying for battery, price your longest ride. At 30 Wh per mile a 10-mile day needs about 300 Wh, and the smallest adult pack is 624 Wh, so short-trip riders should buy on price and fit.

Model against model

TK Pro vs TK2 PRO

The names differ by one digit and the specs by very little. Of the six published figures in the table, four are identical.

Nothing published makes the TK2 PRO the better hill machine, since battery and motor match. Mooncool’s spec pages do show smaller differences: the TK2 PRO adds a reverse function and fast-charging support, while the TK Pro has the lower step-over (12.2 in against 16 in) and the longer wheelbase (44.1 in against 36 in). If reverse and fast charging matter to you, the premium may be justified. Otherwise buy the Mooncool TK Pro and spend the $300 on a lock and professional assembly; Mooncool lists a saddle with a backrest on both. The Mooncool TK2 PRO also carries a naming trap: only the TK2 has the fold in its product name, yet Mooncool marks the TK2 PRO and TK Pro as foldable too. See the folding trike guide for each model’s folded size.

Lectric XP Trike2 vs Emojo Dexter

The Dexter costs $100 more than Lectric XP Trike2 and brings 48 Wh more battery (about 8%), a 20 mph cap against 14, and 93 lb with its battery, where Lectric lists the XP Trike2 at 79 lb without its 7 lb battery. Choose on temperament: the Lectric for the gentler ceiling, Emojo Dexter if your route has stretches where 14 mph would hold up traffic. A 20 mph cap also sits on the line the federal low-speed definition draws, so check your state’s rules.

Dexter, Dexter Jr. and Bull

Emojo’s Dexter Jr., Dexter and Bull share the same battery, motor and top speed: 672 Wh, 500 W and 20 mph. The Dexter Jr. is cheapest, the Dexter next, and the Emojo Bull, sold through Amazon, the most expensive. Emojo’s spec pages show where they differ. The Dexter Jr. has 16 in wheels, a single speed and mechanical disc brakes. The Dexter has 20 in wheels, seven speeds and hydraulic disc brakes. The Bull has seven speeds, mechanical disc brakes, the lowest step-over here at 8.5 in and a 330 lb limit, weighs 80 lb with its battery, and has no fold on Emojo’s spec page.

Dexter Jr. to Dexter is $200 for the bigger wheels, the gears and the hydraulic brakes. Despite its name, the Jr. is an adult trike: Emojo fits it to riders from 4 ft 10 in to 6 ft 4 in and up to 300 lb.

Common questions

Does a 750 W motor make a trike faster?

Not on these spec sheets. The two 750 W trikes list 15.5 mph, the same as the 500 W TK2 and FT1, and the 500 W Emojo trikes list 20 mph. Top speed is a maker’s cap; watts decide how hard the trike pulls from a stop and uphill. The federal low-speed definition draws its power line at under 750 W, so a 750 W rating sits on it, not below. Rules vary by state and city; the street-legal guide covers the general picture.

How much battery does an adult trike need?

Multiply your longest day’s miles by 30 and add a third as margin: a 12-mile day is about 480 Wh, which every adult trike here exceeds. Cold, headwinds and hills cut into it, so size for the worst day.