There are a number of brands that offer e-scooters with an extended electric range of 15-20 ... few offer as tantalising a package as Xiaomi with its Mi 1S. Retailing at just under £500, it ...

As an owner of a Mi 1S scooter but a hacker first and foremost, [Daljeet] set up a HTTPS proxy and captured the firmware files that the app downloaded from Xiaomi servers, dug into them ...

Much of the Xiaomi Mi electric scooter range looks the same ... Stand the Pro 2 next to the 1S and you’ll be hard pushed (see what we did there?) to notice much of a difference.