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Boosted tells people to stop riding its electric skateboards after battery malfunctions

by Rich McCormick

Samsung isn't the only tech company having problems with flaming batteries. Boosted, the maker of some of the better electric skateboards on the market, has warned customers to stop riding and charging its second-generation devices after two...

Mophie's co-founder made a crazy smartphone-connected scooter

by Ashley Carman

The Immotor Go is a new foldable scooter from the ex-CEO and co-founder of Mophie, Daniel Huang. It's got some impressive features, like pairing with a rider's phone to control the scooter's headlights and horn, as well as the ability to control a...

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The new Greyp G12H electric bike goes up to 150 miles on a single charge

by Ashley Carman

Greyp Bikes announced a new electric bike today called the Greyp G12H. It can reach speeds of up to 27 miles per hour while using its 3kWh Lithium-Ion battery. It’ll reportedly stay charged for up to 150 miles. We don’t know how much it weighs,...

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To reduce shipping damages, a Dutch bike company printed a television on their boxes

by Andrew Liptak

Dutch bicycle manufacturer VanMoof found that it had a problem. As it shipped its products to customers, it found that they were arriving to customers damaged. The company came up with a genius solution: print a graphic of a flatscreen television...

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Swagtron now makes (cheap) electric skateboards and scooters

by Sean O'Kane

Swagtron is one of the only hoverboard companies that went through the trouble of making an explosion-proof hoverboard right before everyone stopped talking about hoverboards. So now, the company is putting its electric tech to a few different...

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The new Boosted board makes a great ride even better

by Sean O'Kane

As the niche category of electric skateboards has taken off, the ones from Boosted have consistently been the best. Sure, there are boards that are smaller, or cheaper, or both. Others offer more range than Boosted’s paltry 6–8 miles. But those...

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Gogoro starts an electric scooter-sharing program in Berlin

by Sean O'Kane

Gogoro is bringing 200 of its stylish all-electric scooters to Berlin. Starting today, anyone over 21 with a valid driver’s (or motorcycle) license will be able to rent one of the scooters as part of a new scooter-sharing program. Gogoro — which...

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A defense tech firm is buying the company behind the jet-powered hoverboard

by Sean O'Kane

Zapata Industries, the company behind the jet-powered hoverboard known as the Flyboard Air, is about to be purchased by a defense tech company called Implant Sciences. The two parties announced the intent of sale in a statement that was released...

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The ArcaMini is a square electric skateboard that nobody asked for

by Sean O'Kane

An important question to ask about any new product is: who is this for? There are a lot of gadgets out there these days, and many of them solve very specific problems shared by very particular groups of people. But sometimes it's really hard to...

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Lectro is the newest affordable e-bike to hit the streets

by Sean O'Kane

There's a boom happening in the bike industry: dozens of companies are trying to sell bikes with electric motors, and they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Companies like VanMoof are aiming for the high-end of this new market, attempting to...

Lewis Hamilton and Justin Bieber rode $15,000 motorized surfboards together

by Sean O'Kane

Yes, that is Justin Bieber and Lewis Hamilton in the photo you see above. Yes, they are riding motorized surfboards in what looks like Lake Tahoe or some other upscale picturesque vacation destination. Yes, they are already having a more chill...

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VanMoof's connected bikes are easy to ride and hard to lose

by Sean O'Kane

Riding a bike is supposed to be as easy as... well, riding a bike. But there are definitely barriers to owning and commuting with one, particularly in a big city. If you want a quality bike, one that won't break down over time, you have to spend a...

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The world's first 3D-printed motorcycle will cost you €50,000

by Chris Ziegler

Airbus subsidiary APWorks is using its 3D printing expertise to build what it calls "probably the world's lightest motorcycle," a lithe, bicycle-like all-electric machine weighing 35 kilograms (77 pounds) held together with an intricate web of...

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Boosted's new electric skateboards are water-resistant and have longer range options

by Sean O'Kane

Boosted has just announced the second generation of its popular (and pricey) electric skateboard. The new version looks almost exactly the same as the original, but it offers swappable batteries (including longer-range options), a better Bluetooth...

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For its next trick, Movpak's electric skateboard backpack will consume all gadgets

by Paul Miller

The original Movpak, dubbed "the world's first backpack electric vehicle," missed its $100,000 funding goal on Kickstarter two years ago. Now it's back on Indiegogo with a more modest goal ($50,000) and a crazy amount of new functionality. As if...

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The PodRide is the world's most adorable tiny car

by Chris Ziegler

Call it off, folks, this is the cutest car you're ever going to see. Technically, the PodRide isn't a car — it's more of a four-wheeled bicycle with electric assist and a completely enclosed cloth shell. But the end result is adorably car-like,...

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Watch this jet-powered hoverboard break a world record

by Amar Toor

Franky Zapata, the man who invented the jet-powered Flyboard Air, set a new world record on Saturday for the farthest flight by a hoverboard. Taking off along the coast of Sausset-les-Pins, near Marseille, France, Zapata flew the hoverboard for...

This motorized wheel adds electric power to your bike

by Sean O'Kane

Many different kinds of personal transportation are undergoing an electric revolution, but electric bikes might make up the biggest section of the market. In fact, it's boomed fast enough that we're already seeing weird, alternative ideas pop up....

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A man just smashed a world record with a jet-powered hoverboard

by Amar Toor

Franky Zapata, the French jet ski champion who invented the Flyboard Air, has set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest hoverboard flight. Zapata achieved the feat Saturday morning off the coast of Sausset-les-Pins in the South of France,...

This Audi has a beautiful electric longboard hidden in its bumper

by Chris Ziegler

At Beijing's auto show this week, Audi unveiled its Connected Mobility Concept, a trucklet based on the production Q3. But with this concept, the vehicle itself doesn't really matter. What's interesting is what's inside of it: a beautiful...

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This is the perfect hoverboard if you want to be the Green Goblin

by Sean O'Kane

A new video from Zapata Racing — the company that makes those the water- and jet ski-powered Flyboards we got to ride last summer — shows founder Franky Zapata zooming back and forth over a small lake strapped to some sort of aircraft engine,...

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The Blink Board is the lightest and cheapest electric skateboard yet

by Sean O'Kane

Electric skateboards are an exciting new technology that is currently being hampered by cost. Few companies offer boards below the $1,000 mark, which is five to ten times as expensive as a traditional skateboard or longboard. Price is such an...

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Swagway says its boards are safe to use in face of new scrutiny

by Nick Statt

After Mashable reported on Saturday that Swagway advised its customers to take a break from hoverboarding, the company now says that direction was the result of a "miscommunication" and its products are safe to use. "Due to an apparent...

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Swagway tells customers to stop using its hoverboards until they're deemed safe

by Nick Statt

Swagway, one of the leading hoverboard sellers in the country, is telling customers to stop using its devices after the US Consumer Products Safety Commission deemed nearly all hoverboards unsafe yesterday. The CPSC's letter — sent to...

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Oh look, another exploding hoverboard caught on video

by James Vincent

Hoverboards explode. It's just a fact of life; one of those things that millennials will one day have to talk to their children about. (When they finally save up enough money to become parents, of course. Fifty is a good age for this, I hear.) And...

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This scooter proves that electric rideables can be more than a novelty

by Sean O'Kane

If you want to have some fun riding something powered by electric motors, CES is the show for you. Companies show up from around the world with hoverboards, electric skateboards, scooters, and street-legal vehicles of all shapes and colors. This...

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They're called hoverboards now, and there's nothing we can do about it

by Nick Statt

Here at CES 2016, we've seen a cornucopia of two-wheeled, self-balancing scooters. Of course, we have a name for those gadgets these days: hoverboards. Yes, we know, the actual device doesn't hover, but the rider looks as if they're floating as...

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US Marshals raided a Chinese electric skateboard company at CES

by Nick Statt

US Marshals raided the CES booth of a Chinese electric skateboard company today on the grounds it was showing off a product patented by another company, according to a report in Bloomberg. The device, a one-wheeled self-balancing skateboard called...

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Razor promises its Hovertrax hoverboard won't catch fire or explode

by Nick Statt

The hoverboard was undeniably the breakout gadget of 2015. So it's only fair the self-balancing two-wheeled scooters would show up in full force here at CES 2016, and Razor's Hovertrax is among the most talked about models in the category. That's...

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This portable scooter is the secret to happiness

by Nick Statt

A Miami-based startup called Smart-Rhino has discovered something very valuable: if you give someone a foldable micro-sized motor bike that travels faster than 15mph, it is impossible to have a bad time. The company brought its product, the...

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Thanks to a new charger, Gogoro's cool electric scooter might roll out faster

by Chris Ziegler

Gogoro, a Taiwanese startup helmed by former HTC designer Horace Luke, makes a smartphone-connected electric scooter powered by swappable batteries available at kiosks strategically placed around a city. It looks great, the concept is novel, and w...

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The short, weird rise of the hoverboard with wheels

by Chris Plante

The Verge tested Lexus' hoverboard in August. Thanks to science and a considerable promotional budget, the car maker's hoverboard actually hovered above the earth — as its name suggested. The experience was the culmination of a shared pop culture...

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