MellowBoards reached out to us to try its Cruiser electric skateboard (e-skateboard). After a 25 year break on a skateboard and then two e-skateboard reviews, I couldn’t wait to try it out. After some hiccups on my side, I put four miles on the Cruiser on the first outing and now can’t imagine not having one with me at all times.
Boosted has not just set the bar for what an electric skateboard is, or even raised the bar – Boosted IS the bar against which all other electric skateboards are measured. Its first generation Boosted Board enabled riders around the world to escape their containerized vehicles and instead, to explore their cities, villages, and neighborhoods as they are, raw and exposed.
Boosted Boards is widely known as the leader in electrified skateboards. The very usable design — with 7 miles of range, an intuitive controller, and rider-friendly specs — made the first Boosted Board a winner off the line. It was more than capable as an around-town commuter board, a solution to the last mile for many transit riders, and perhaps most importantly, just a ton of fun to ride.
Earlier this year, we wondered aloud if powered skateboards could be the perfect solution to the challenge of the “last mile” being both portable and effortless to ride. Having used my longboard skateboard almost exclusively to commute from home to college in addition to quite a few nighttime runs down our local … [continued]
With millennials ditching car ownership for mass transit en masse, a gap has arisen in the otherwise blissfully efficient model — known as the “last mile.” This speaks to the inevitable delta between the endpoints of the mass transit models — bus stops, train stations, subway stations, and the like — … [continued]
Back to the Future is one of the classic films of my generation. And the hoverboard featured in Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III is perhaps the item in those movies that most fans would wish were real… aside from the time-traveling DeLorean, of course. I wanted one of those … [continued]
