Where the 200 kg figure is published
"Loading Capacity: 200 kg" appears in the published specification blocks of the EH01 Citycoco, the HL3.0 chopper and the CP-3 cargo tricycle. It is, notably, one of the most consistent figures in the entire catalog — the same value across a two-wheel leisure scooter, a chopper and a cargo trike, from three different product pages. That consistency makes it the range's anchor figure for load questions, and the models that publish it can be quoted with confidence: the EH01 carries its 200 kg alongside its 65–78 kg net weight, 1000W motor and 45 km/h maximum speed.
What "loading capacity" includes
Loading capacity is the total carried mass the vehicle is specified for: rider, passenger where the format allows one, and cargo — everything that is not the vehicle itself. On the EH01, whose net weight is published at 65 kg or 78 kg depending on fitment, a 200 kg loading capacity means the machine is specified to move roughly three times its own weight in payload. Two implications follow. First, a heavy rider plus a passenger plus luggage adds up faster than most people estimate — two adults and a week's shopping can approach the figure on a two-seater. Second, the published performance figures (range, speed, climbing) are achieved inside the loading limit; a vehicle habitually run at or beyond it will show the symptoms the troubleshooting guide lists for voltage drop and overheating, because the motor and battery are working outside their specified envelope.
Where the figure does not apply
Here is the discipline this guide exists to teach: the 200 kg figure belongs to the models that publish it, and to no others. The A21 does not publish a loading capacity. The A31 — a cargo vehicle, where the question matters most — does not publish one on the pages held in the catalog, and neither does the A41. The mobility family's pages do not publish rider weight limits. In each case the honest answer is the same: the figure is an inquiry item, confirmed per model before ordering, and any salesperson who quotes you 200 kg for an A31 is borrowing the CP-3's number. Fleets should make payload a written line in the order for exactly this reason; the cargo trike guide flags it as the A31's first open question.
Practical load management
- Weigh the real load once. Rider in riding clothes, plus passenger, plus the usual cargo — weigh the combination once rather than estimating it.
- Put weight low and central. The fat-tire format tolerates load well, but a top-heavy load changes braking and steering on any two-wheeler; the cargo trikes exist precisely because bed load beats backpack load.
- Expect range to fall as load rises. The published travel distances (40–70 km across the EH series fitments, up to 140 km for the dual-battery combination) are achieved within specification; a vehicle at its loading limit on hills will land at the short end of its figures.
- Check tires after load changes. Tire pressure carries the load; the sizes are published per model (12-inch on the EH01, 13-inch on the HL3.0, 10-inch on the CP-3) and pressure checks belong in the maintenance round.
The bottom line
For the EH01, the HL3.0 and the CP-3, plan around a published 200 kg loading capacity. For every other model in the range, treat payload as unconfirmed until the manufacturer confirms it for that model in writing. That is a less satisfying answer than a single range-wide number, but it is the only one the published data supports — and a fleet bought on a borrowed figure is a fleet bought on a guess.
Net weight: the other half of the load story
Loading capacity is only half the specification; the vehicle's own weight decides how the combination behaves. The catalog publishes net weights for the EH01 (65 kg or 78 kg by fitment), the HL3.0 (85 kg) and the CP-3 (100 kg) — and the pattern is instructive: the heavier machine is not the stronger carrier. The 100 kg CP-3 and the 65–78 kg EH01 publish the same 200 kg loading capacity, because capacity is set by frame, brakes and motor specification, not by mass. For the rider, net weight shows up elsewhere: manoeuvring the parked vehicle, loading it into a van, pushing it the last metres with a flat battery. A buyer choosing between fitments of the same model is also choosing 13 kg of EH01 — the larger battery's weight rides in the vehicle every day, including the days its range is not needed.
Passengers: the two-up calculation
Two-seat variants run across the seated range, and the two-up calculation is where the 200 kg figure gets spent fastest: two adults at a combined 160 kg, plus 15 kg of bags, leaves 25 kg of margin on a model that publishes 200 kg — legal, but with nothing left for the shopping. The same load on a model that publishes no capacity is not "probably fine"; it is unmeasured. Two-up buyers should shortlist from the models that publish the figure (EH series, HL3.0, CP-3) or make capacity a written term of the order for any other model. That discipline, applied at purchase, is the entire difference between a weight limit and a weight guess.
A note for importers and rental fleets
If you sell or rent these vehicles, the weight-limit conversation is part of your duty of care, and it should happen in writing at handover: the model's published loading capacity where one exists, and an explicit "not published — confirmed limit is X" where you have obtained one for a model that does not publish it. Rental fleets in particular overload vehicles innocently — two holidaymakers and a cool-box are nobody's fault — and a handover note with the figure on it is the difference between a misuse and a misunderstanding. Where no figure exists and none can be obtained, the professional answer is to range a model that publishes one. This catalog makes that easy: three of its formats — the EH01, the HL3.0 and the CP-3 — carry the same, clearly published 200 kg.
Carry the figure with the vehicle: a note of the model's published loading capacity in the owner's paperwork turns an abstract limit into a number the rider sees every time the question comes up.