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An Electric Skateboard You Control by Leaning
The weight-sensitive ZBoard 2 can dawdle or zoom at 20 mph, depending on your foot pressure.
California might still have a ban on electric skateboards, thanks to a 1970s law against their motorized, emissions-spewing granddaddies. But with one state legislator moving to legalize e-boards, engineers are already rolling out prototypes—such as the Zboard 2, a battery-charged person-mover that gets up to a wind-rustling-in-the-hair 20 mph.
The market for the $949 Zboard 2, made by UCLA grads based in Hermosa Beach, certainly seems primed: the vehicle has almost quadrupled its funding goal on Indiegogo. Perhaps that's because it's being pitched not so much to skateboarders but to a general audience who might just want an easy way to scoot to work or the store. Write its inventors: