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Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by mmaunder »

Some context: The average electric bicycle has a 300 watt motor. These baby's have 2000 watt motors (or 2 x 1000 watt motors, I couldn't tell) that are roughly a 5th of the size of an electric bike motor. Include a battery big enough to power that motor and the fact that they're adding regenerative braking, which electric bikes don't have, and this is a seriously awesome engineering challenge.

Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by mikeknoop »

mahyarm wrote: post #7

Are they waterproof? Could I ride this in Seattle & SF rain all the time without damaging it? Otherwise it's just a fair weather vehicle and it's not something I can rely on. If not, why would I choose this over all the other electric skateboards? Is it safe to use on the steep downgrades you have in SF? Is it useless to use when going uphill on those same hills?

Don't underestimate design (and the constraints which the BoostedBoards team have solved to achieve such a design).

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boosted-...

compared to

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0119/3292/t/4/assets/slide_...

or

http://i.imgur.com/QjhIM.png

Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by Inufu »

How is this different from: http://www.alteredelectricskateboards.com/pro-line_600.htm

Except that it has twice the price and half the range?

Ok, seems like it's significantly ligther (12 vs 40 lbs). Any other differences?

Stronger motors, but still same speed .. strange

Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by starpilot »

jazzychad wrote: post #19

No motorized skateboards in CA :( http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21968.htm However, I wonder how strongly this is enforced...

There's another electric skateboard company already in CA, www.zboardshop.com, so I guess there's more to this law, or it's just not enforced at all. I see electric skateboards by the beach all the time.

Edit: Another .ca.gov page says they're only legal on private property: http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/motors.html.

Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by jamesaguilar »

mmaunder wrote: post #22

Some context: The average electric bicycle has a 300 watt motor. These baby's have 2000 watt motors (or 2 x 1000 watt motors, I couldn't tell) that are roughly a 5th of the size of an electric bike motor. Include a battery big enough to power that motor and the fact that they're adding regenerative braking, which electric bikes don't have, and this is a seriously awesome engineering challenge.

Wow. Which leads one to ask, could you just take the motors off the board and put them on a bike? What's the new tech that makes these motors possible?

Re: Boosted Boards (YC S12) Unveils Its Magical Electric Skateboard

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Post by rapind »

mmaunder wrote: post #22

Some context: The average electric bicycle has a 300 watt motor. These baby's have 2000 watt motors (or 2 x 1000 watt motors, I couldn't tell) that are roughly a 5th of the size of an electric bike motor. Include a battery big enough to power that motor and the fact that they're adding regenerative braking, which electric bikes don't have, and this is a seriously awesome engineering challenge.

Trek's Ride+ uses regenerative breaking. http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/collections/electric_assist/f...

TBH, it's not that big of a deal (over-hyped).

P.S. I only mean regenerative breaking isn't that big of a deal. This product actually looks pretty cool to me.

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