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its interesting that people have used this as a commuter solution, i never thought of that. i guess bikes make more sense to me, and i live where there are lots

by eonw 10y ago

its interesting that people have used this as a commuter solution, i never thought of that. i guess bikes make more sense to me, and i live where there are lots of hills. now it makes sense to me how the pricepoint works. i have a lot of recreational toys, but couldnt bring myself to pay $1800 for an electric skateboard that didnt go all that far. cool to see the technology improving and the different uses it has shown.

heimatau 10y ago
I agree the $1800 price tag is a bit much. Not only that, if it truly were a 'commuter solution', it wouldn't need new wheels so often. I don't think this company is thinking about long-term and sustainability enough. Why not rubber tires? I wish these companies would stop the incremental long board design and just think different. Why don't we have cheap, semi-durable, electric long boards? Or Tesla's patents in use for long boards? bikes? Motorcycles? I wish I had the skills, I'd do it. Sure, R/D is a high cost but...there are better models to disrupt an industry than this snail-pace innovation. If boosted boards could merge with E-glide [1], we'd have a bad ass true commuter solution. Then maybe pool resources to improve the battery and we'd have a product that disrupts things. EDITED: Since I'm getting down votes, let me clarify. Replacement wheels cost $105[2], motor belt $25 [3]. On their website, they say [4] that the belts should be replaced every 200-400 miles. I doubt the wheels will last that long with normal use but let's be generous. 800 miles on the wheels. If this were to be truly disruptive and would replace local commuting, it would need to do about 5,000 miles per year based on 20 miles a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. (this would be 250-500 charges per year). Adding up the entire maintenance costs (735 yr in wheels, 300 in belts = 1,000 year in maintenance), I feel electric long boarding is only after hobbyists and not disruptive enough. [1] https://e-glide.com/electric-skateboard-store/electric-skateboards/gt-powerboard-aluminum https://e-glide.com/electric-skateboard-store/electric-skate... [2] http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/replacement-wheels?variant=1141768980 http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/replacement-wheels?va... [3] http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/motor-belt-service-kit?variant=1141718288 http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/motor-belt-service-ki... [4] http://boostedboards.com/faq/ http://boostedboards.com/faq/

by eonw 10y ago

heimatau 10y ago

I agree the $1800 price tag is a bit much. Not only that, if it truly were a 'commuter solution', it wouldn't need new wheels so often. I don't think this company is thinking about long-term and sustainability enough. Why not rubber tires? I wish these companies would stop the incremental long board design and just think different. Why don't we have cheap, semi-durable, electric long boards? Or Tesla's patents in use for long boards? bikes? Motorcycles? I wish I had the skills, I'd do it. Sure, R/D is a high cost but...there are better models to disrupt an industry than this snail-pace innovation. If boosted boards could merge with E-glide [1], we'd have a bad ass true commuter solution. Then maybe pool resources to improve the battery and we'd have a product that disrupts things. EDITED: Since I'm getting down votes, let me clarify. Replacement wheels cost $105[2], motor belt $25 [3]. On their website, they say [4] that the belts should be replaced every 200-400 miles. I doubt the wheels will last that long with normal use but let's be generous. 800 miles on the wheels. If this were to be truly disruptive and would replace local commuting, it would need to do about 5,000 miles per year based on 20 miles a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. (this would be 250-500 charges per year). Adding up the entire maintenance costs (735 yr in wheels, 300 in belts = 1,000 year in maintenance), I feel electric long boarding is only after hobbyists and not disruptive enough. [1] https://e-glide.com/electric-skateboard-store/electric-skateboards/gt-powerboard-aluminum https://e-glide.com/electric-skateboard-store/electric-skate... [2] http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/replacement-wheels?variant=1141768980 http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/replacement-wheels?va... [3] http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/motor-belt-service-kit?variant=1141718288 http://shop.boostedboards.com/products/motor-belt-service-ki... [4] http://boostedboards.com/faq/ http://boostedboards.com/faq/