This one actually looks pretty good too, able to go uphill, but certainly not as powerful as a Gnarboard. This is probably the nicest looking electric skateboard to date, it doesn’t look like a longboard with a brick strapped to it. It’s the first ever to use regenerative breaking too. Breaking recharges the batteries a little bit. Hella expensive (Yes, I said “hella”) though. Boosted Boards has raised $297,763 do date on Kickstarter. Their promo video is heavily biased towards green transportation vs. skateboarding fun.
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Mario
Just make a BBPack (back-battery-pack), one spiral cable and almost a unlimited range by a bigger power supply. Or make connection trough the shoes.
Thomas
As a concept it would be cool if the battery recharged as you pushed. So if you ran out of battery, you could just push and recharge it.
YURI
If it is real? How much is that cost?
doug
Nice …but will they get off the ground. Also the battery seems to small
K.C.
Come on, FS Boneless those stairs! at 00:47
Fitz
We all bang on new ideas, but without them, we’d all be sessioning an oak 2″-by with roller skate-trucks. And before you tell me how core that would be, consider that it basically sucked, then consider your history, and be glad for skating’s current state-of-the-art.
As they say, the only constant is change…
Jack
The Boosted crew stopped in Morro Bay yesterday and let me demo a board. the best way to describe it is…it rides like a longboard. There is no big battery back to change the flex characteristics of the deck. The model I was riding had regular Bear trucks on it. The motors, battery pack and computer adds only about 4 pounds to the board. Smooth acceleration, great handling.
Pat Benatard
Hella’s for children.
Concretin Nik
Can I borrow (have) $1200? This one, I would have. But I’d have to put the system on a more traditional board. Still much bigger than a popsicle, but I gotta have a kicktail. The 6 mile range isn’t much, BUT for what it is and the look and size of it… that’s actually really great. It would be perfect for my and my daily 2 mile commute.
Bevilacqua
the deck looks a lot like the Rayne Timeline I’ve just bought … thin, sleek and full of energy.
Rich
Well, unless the entire board is the battery that leverages nano tech design, it’s not going to pull very much for very long. Might as well do a kickstarter for the hoverboard at this point.
ssk
Wow, serious. I wouldn’t buy one but I’d love to try one.