Thinking about electric skateboard manufacturers and their claims for maximum speed it seems that unlike the car industry there is no standard used for measuring speed. How do we know what conditions the skate-board manufacturers are using to determine top speed? There can be any number of factors affecting top speed:- smoothness of ground, board weight, tyre hardness etc. Some manufacturers are reporting a top speed for a given tested weight of the rider but the weights differ across manufacture so you can't make a useful/fair comparison.What is needed is an industry standard dynamometer for electric skateboards. Ideally this would be done by a (certified) test house, and electric board manufactures would send in their boards there for testing.
Interestingly, there is a chap on the Facebook electric board Users who has very recently shown his dynamo-meter for electric skateboards (pictures below). Lets hope something like this can be adopted into the electric skateboard industry.
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