The Joy e-Bike Mihos features modern retro styling, with design elements taken from the Vespas and Lambrettas of yore. So, you get a round LED headlamp, a wide front apron, chrome mirrors and a spacious seat. However, elements like the TFT display, 12-inch wheels and LED lighting lend a touch of modernity to the package.

Joy e-Bike is offering a long list of features on the Mihos electric scooter. These include a 4.3-inch colour TFT instrument cluster that displays a host of information like range, speed, battery health, riding modes and more. It also gets Bluetooth connectivity along with turn-by-turn navigation, and connected tech features like vehicle tracking, geo-fencing, riding behaviour and more. Other features include a USB charger and LED lighting inside the under-seat storage.

The Mihos electric scooter is powered by a 1.5kWh hub-mounted electric motor that produces around 2bhp and 250Nm of peak torque. The scooter gets a 2.96kWh Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) battery pack that is claimed to offer an IDC range of 130km and a 0-100 per cent charging time of 5hr. It gets three riding modes – Eco, Sport and Hyper, which alters the throttle response and speed according to the mode selected.

With a pre-subsidy price tag of Rs 1.35 lakh (ex-showroom India), the Joy e-Bike Mihos comes across as an expensive alternative to its well-established rivals like the Ather 450X Gen3, Ola S1 Pro, TVS iQube S and the Bajaj Chetak Electric. More so, when you factor in the kind of performance and finesse that the competition offers.

Although the Mihos offers decent performance and good handling, it needs a lot of fine-tuning when it comes to quality control and fit and finish. Now, Joy e-Bike did mention that the scooters we sampled were pre-production units, and the production versions will have all the issues sorted before their final roll-out in April 2023. However, unless we test the production unit in real-world conditions, it will be difficult to recommend the Mihos over its established rivals.