This electric board uses a 300 W motor to sustain the speed you push to and caps at 13.7 mph with the help of a proprietary algorithm; costs around $590 ...

Have you ever wished an electric skateboard could truly capture the essence of traditional skateboarding? For years, electric boards have promised speed and convenience, but they’ve often fallen short ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William covers motorbikes, E-bikes, cars, trucks and mobility tech. In the long gap between my carefree riding days of the 1970s ...

The Backfire Ranger X5 is a capable all-terrain electric skateboard that offers a smooth and comfortable ride with its large deck and dual 1500w hub motors. This board can handle hill gradients up to ...

It's one thing to watch someone riding around town on a skateboard or longboard, but the moment they're going, god knows how fast, without ever moving a muscle, you can bet your bottom dollar that ...

The wrap-around LED lighting on the Nalu looks cool - but also makes riders much more visible at night. The lights can also blink, 'breathe,' or be turned off. I’ve ridden many electric skateboards ...

As we reach the pinnacle of the spooky season on Halloween today, I thought it would be appropriate to share my recent experience with the Ghost – a high performance electric skateboard from Base Camp ...

If you actually read the thread and comprehended the content, you would know the conversation was the tech is there if you replace the disk brakes with hub motors to save weight. No one said it was ...

LIKE MANY TALES of product design, this one started with a Kickstarter. In the mid-2010s, amid a timely fervor for gasless transit options and a timeless desire to look cool without breaking a sweat, ...

DIY electric personal vehicles are a field where even hobbyists can meaningfully innovate, and that’s demonstrated by the Mega-Wheelie, a self-balancing one-wheeled skateboard constructed as an ...

While on co-op at Tesla in 2022, fifth-year mechanical engineering student Mike Elrod was compelled by his creative spirit and passion for robotics, and the fact that he did not have a car, to create ...

You cannot remove the brake system in fact. The regenerative brake force of an electric motor is proportional to motor rpm so at low speeds the brake force is almost zero. Click to expand... You can ...