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The Mellow Drive: A Slick Way to Motorize Any Skateboard
This is one of the better designed personal mobility devices we've seen
From Germany comes the Mellow Drive, a smartly designed, Red-Dot-Design-Award-winning way to motorize any skateboard. Look at how easy they've made this:
The thing tops out at 25 miles per hour and has a range of nine miles. And as they mentioned in the video, you can double that range by carrying an extra battery. What they didn't show you in the video is that the battery pack can also be used to charge your devices:
Enter a caption (optional)I'm loving the simplicity and practicality of the design, and am impressed by its range and power. The fact that it's easy on the eyes doesn't hurt either.
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Enter a caption (optional)The Mellow Drive is produced by Mellow Board, a company that got their start as one of the first projects on Kickstarter when it opened up to Germany in 2015. And looking at their roster of employees, it's no secret why the Mellow Drive is as slick as it is: In addition to one of the founders being an ex-engineer for BMW, they've got on staff a mechanical engineer, an industrial designer, a UI/UX designer and two industrial design students working on "aesthetic engineering." Job well done!
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Yeah , whats up with the prize?! More expensive then a boosted board!
Price Wtf ?
Nice and pretty slick solution.. next model sure it would use plastics instead of aluminum for the battery shell. AL is kinda fragile for this product environment i think..
Price is crazy.
Gorgeous. And nicely BMW priced at a mere $1800. Over $2000 with a spare battery. (gasp.)