Boosted, the company that basically created the market for electric skateboards is going out of business…
“We understand this news will come as a surprise to many of you, but unfortunately, developing, manufacturing, and maintaining electric vehicles is highly capital-intensive, and over the last year-and-a-half our business has faced an additional unplanned challenge with the high expense of the US-China tariff war,” Russakow and Ulmen wrote.
It just proves again that creating and supporting electric jetboards and efoils is a very hard task…
Most companies really struggle with post sales service and repairs as shipping and repairs of batteries is extremelly expensive.
Now I need to repair my one wheel battery but the only way is to ship to California which is ridiculous. I am not surprised if they also go out business with such post sale business model.
That’s sad. Boosted had good boards. I preferred the Evolve Skateboards and the Onewheel and they seem to do well, but you are right. If even well established players can fail, think twice before you spend your money on newcomers or cheap stuff from China.
One Wheel - I fully understand your point there. I own a OW Original (first generation, circa 2015 or so), my battery likely needs some repair also. From what I can tell, the company no longer even uses the batteries they used to place inside the OW Originals and OW+ … Did you manage to find any solution for your battery repair?