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This week I attempt to create a grand tourer electric skateboard. At first I try car batteries with a Boosted Board to extend the range, but I discover I can charge the board with foldable solar panels that fit in my rucksack. Thus, the limitless range electric skateboard was born. To test this out, I attempt to travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh in one day using only the power of the sun.
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" no range anxiety"
nighttime: I boutta end this mans whole career
"I've got no range anxiety... except for the fact that I'm completely stranded if clouds come out or the sun goes down. Luckily I'm in Scotland, famous for its sunny weather and long days."
Shyam Malasani bad weather
Jesus Staccato lucky
Shyam Malasani 😂😂😂😂
I hate these comments
I thought he would wear the panels as a cloak and charge on the move...
Me too :(( i thoght he would superman his way to Eddington
That would of been smarter,yeah
I don't think the board can use charge and receive it spontaneously
simultaneously*
🤯🤯🤯
This dude has the most supportive partner on the planet.
at first, i thought she was just a stalker tailing behind him haha
I noticed how much he talked about the skateboard in reference to her opinions, that's how you know someone loves someone.
I’m pretty sure that’s his electric bike
Kim is wife material for sure watch the vid on this channel of her learning to juggle - "Am I really that fast at learning? an experiment" she's cute af
@@wetrain6944 tf? Not saying I'm trying to steal his girl, I think they're a cute couple. Grow up
Herea an idea: get a board that you can swap the batteries on. Strap solar panels to your body. Charge the battery while you riding with a different battery.
Holy shit mind = blown thank you i need to try this.
Oh shit your right
If in 90 mins you get a full charge, and the skateboard has a range of about 15 miles, then you can ride at 10 mph and not run out of battery
Problem is, to really charge the battery, you need three solar panels. How are you gonna wear those while riding, genius?
@@mumblernumber7213 That's from 3 panels combined
Mike Boyd, 2019: I don’t experience range anxiety with this board.
Also Mike: Worries about sun going down for hours on end.
Cloud anxiety?
Photosynthesis anxiety
Chino Shorts he wasn’t experiencing it when it happened
What board did u use
Yes , a dumb idea
Can we stop for a moment and appreciate his wife cycling all this way with him.... Wow! Good job👏👏
That's an electric bike she's pretty much just hitting the throttle
@@AngelSaintCloud oh! I didn't know. But still she was there for him 💪 for the hole adventure.....
@@BatataGamer0x0 mean doing exactly what she was supposed to but you're sticking with your married partner?
They aren't a boyfriend and girlfriend in high school and that have only known each other for six months and they think they're in love.
they are married and in a married sense they are obligated to one another meaning that the dude should have to do the exact same thing in the opposite situation
@@AngelSaintCloud What is your problem?
@@thelambsauce2017
there should be no rewards for doing what you're supposed to do.
I was using speech to text when I wrote that and corrected it just now to make it phonetically correct.
I think your girlfriend needs more credit for cycling what a legend
Wife*
She was using an electric bike.....
I think it was a Ebike but it’s still nuts.
Agreed
It’s his wife
Can we just talk about how there's a footpath that goes the entire length between two major cities?
Welcome to the UK mate. There’s footpaths and cycle paths to go all over the country, except London where they’d be most useful, lol.
I've walked from glasgow to edinburough. It's called the great glen way. It takes about a week and is a great way to relax.
darthdanger that sounds like a great walk! I live in a fairly rural area of the uk and there are some good places to walk
@@darthdanger666 A WEEK it took me 1.5 days
@@lachlanross1 thats 125 km in 1.5 days. Thats a mayor super marathon dude
In this episode: Mike discovers why bikes are so popular...
Yeah I like skateboarding but It must have been so rough standing pretty statically for hours and hours where you can’t even move your feet around that much, while travelling that far and especially for that long.
And I wouldn’t want to worry about holes and being actively observant about the road for that long either. Bikes can just handle a lot more variation and tougher terrain.
honestly this might be a better concept for a electric bike, if you want the convince of having a motor.
Pop out the panels and charge while taking a break or eating something. Have the panels in a small container on the bike itself.
Could be a pretty good idea for a biking holiday if you know it’s going to be a route with a lot of hills and far between stops in civilisation.
Your wife's a legend for cycling all of that with you.
He only went about 5 mph on average, taking breaks into account. That's not too bad effort wise but she's going to feel 14 hours on a bike seat for weeks lol
Its was an e bike
Your
FalsePositive he was not going just 5mph. That’s a little faster then waking. He was at least 15-20MPH
@@drew7311 edited
I love how Kim is always so supportive in literally EVERYTHING you do. She is genuinely so excited when you complete a new skill; especially the ones that are physically or mentally demanding. Lucky to have someone like that!
I live on scotland and when he said he needed a sunny day I started bowling my eyes out with laughter 😂
Wish i could live where you are , i hate sun but there's sun here every single day i hate going out here
That_one_jeshua I love the sun go swimming bbq outside heck yeah
That_one_jeshua na mate you can get a sunburn and frostbite and at the same time in scotland
Bandit let’s swap them lmao grass is always greener on the other side trust me you don’t wanna be in the UK
I knowww
“Now we wait until the next sunny day in Scotland.”
“7 years later”
lol
Should I say the situation is the same here in dunedin, nz ? Or more like 4 seasons in a single day kinda weather
@@xplorer2361 thats just kiwi weather tho
I live in Spain so..
same here in the Netherlands. I think its been gray with rain every day since mid september
I was expecting him to say "E-girls" at 0:08
@Muhammad Ali Javaid wait what??
He didn't
@@malachiwalsh1641 no shit
Master JR101 Same
What about VSCO
You'll get range anxiety if starts raining.
Gerald Hng don’t you mean “rain” anxiety?
I mean he is lucky now since England is sunny so I'm assuming some sunlight should be at Scotland cuz outside my window it's sunny I'm getting the vibes 😎
You will get rainge anxiety
MELI_DEM0NN 231 he’s not in England
RAINXIETY sorry
"E car, E bikes, E skateboards, E wheels"
*E GIRL*
E a sport
E. Cigarette
And that :V
*EA*
@@tcsiashyxd9770 😂
How is there 60 miles of a clear, narrow, concrete path?!
It’s a canal path
So many canal paths connecting towns together that are perfect for cycling in the UK.
The UK is forward thinking in its cycling infrastructure. Greenways here in the US rarely extend more than 10 miles and even those are very few in number.
@@kudosbudo wish those existed in the US.
Yeah the infer structure in the US is pretty bad, mostly 1930’s. Sometimes old rail roads get removed and a paved path gets made. No canals near me.
Awesome video, that was very interesting.
perrydigeverything
Pioneers: walked from state to state
Mike on his electric longboard : *my legs are killing me*
Yeah
@@cadenfisher6455Ngl I would prefer walking to using a boosted board to go across America. I feel like standing all day and not moving your legs would hurt more and in an unhealthy way.
Well he stood for 14 hours pioneers got “breaks”
Idea for you:
Make wings for the solar panels and attach them to a kite or wear it as a coat. The solar panels could also trail behind you as a long cape.
He's not Tony stark
You don’t have to be
Why don't you ask thee Hacksmith to try and make it
There is also no Sun in Scotland
-Everyone in Scotland
doesn't matter, solarcharging still works when it's cloudy
YTIsTakingOverMyLife its just *s l o w e r*
YTIsTakingOverMyLife r/woooshed kid
@@plinkinganddriving stop using r/ out of reddit
Yeah this must be in spain
Mike: PaTHeTiC PaDesTRIaNs
what is padestrian
why didnt u just sit on the board when u got tired
@@yashgoyal3894 you just lean, you can lean while sitting lol
I’ve tried before and it is really hard to stay in control
@@yashgoyal3894 lmao yeah you can i ride on my board all the time sitting
Its hard to balance sitting
Yash Goyal you can, just lean bro 🤣
"E stuff is in
E cars
E bikes
E skateboards
E wheels"
... E learning
E learning is a pain👀
*sighs*
haha i get it cause corona
E girls
U forgot e-boys and e-girls
Idea for you, Mike: attach the solar panels to the outside of your backpack and continually charge the board from there.
i was thing that :)
I don’t think the board will work while charging
Brian Or Is it yeah, but its a neat idea though...
Check out wren from corridor digital.. he made a same thing.. a solar sobrero
The solar panels are too big. You would get probably 70% charge so you would have to stop occasionally but neat idea
You should retry the „Learning a Backflip“ Episode
TheRealEnzo
YESSSSSS
Why do people care that much? He's not going to do it, and he has reasons for it. It's not even that interesting of a skill.
@@gusjohnnson9641 it's quite an interesting trick to do, and why not give it a go?
Gus Johnnson he said he was going to make another video revisiting it
@@gusjohnnson9641this is only your opinion. BTW, the real gus Johnson is a cool youtuber. You should check him out.
The best way to do this would be to have a swappable battery and have like a solar panel array that you can have on while moving. Then you can charge the spare battery while you are riding and when you run out you swap the battery and charge the other battery with the array
1,000,000 IQ
Just take it
I think Peter Sripol made a solar panel trailer for unlimited range in an ebike (as long as the sun is shining). Maybe something like that could work with a skateboard, too. If you're going to make charge stops anyway, you wouldn't need to trail all the panels, but even one panel charging all the time would give you significantly more range per charging stop.
9:21 "This is when I realised I had no range anxiety"
9:41 "So the aim is to ride 15 miles as quickly as possible, drain the battery and recharge whilst the sun is still high"
Sounds like a range anxiety to me!
*weather anxiety
It’s because the sun is warmer so it will charge fsster
“I need to buy an E something “
there’s an e bike following him the whole way
An h bike. Human, as opposed to electric.
That’s pedal powered. A ebike would have been much better for this journey though, or any journey over 10 or so miles.
Jack 33
theres EUT
That was his wife
Mike: the problem is range anxiety.
Mike five minutes later: a full charge on just the sun and 80 minutes. No more range anxiety.
Mike in one week: the problem is time management.
The music in this video is outrageous, seriously just amazing, you really need to do a playlist of your music in videos
Today I Learned: There is a dude in Scotland who knows what the Sun is
mike : NO MORE RANGE ANXIETY!!!!!
yeah but now sundown anxiety.....
Less of a problem further south
@@aceman0000099 more of problem because he lives in fucking scotland lol
Minecraft be like
@@benkai343434 yeah but Scotland isn't south is it. And we have longer days in the summer to be fair
This is my by far favorite mike Boyd video the camera work is incredible and the whole idea is just so fun to be part of the journey
Mike is like one of those really cool grandpa’s that can do anything
Mike Boyd: Spends hours charging his e-scateboard with sunlight
Me:"Uses bicycle"
Perfect... Got rid of Range Anxiety and gave you Weather Anxiety😂😂😂
I’ve watched this so many times but I keep coming back. It’s just sooo entertaining ！
I have one of the same evolve skateboards. There is a lot you can change with motor KV bigger batteries, and also different tires. Super cool video
he won’t be laughing when it rains for 3 days straight
Itz_Zuleth would you be skateboarding then anyway though
you can still solar-charge when it's cloudy
YTIsTakingOverMyLife
Clouds ≠ No Light
@@muabyt7333 Clouds are actually opaque objects that absorb 100% of light thus making solar charging impossible when it's cloudy
@@jimothyjimothy1 how cloudy do you think it's going to be
Awesome video! 1:20 if you wouldve used the same size lithium battery and connected it in paralell to the in-board one, instead of lead acid you would have had less weight and easily 300km of range
America: we have to take twelve hour flight to go across our nation.
Scotland: skateboard is all you need
Thank you, it is great listening to you setting goals for 2020 😂
Mike:"I need a Grand Tour"
Me: okay so he is going to stick a v8 on a skateboard right? Seems only fair
POWWWAAAAAAAAAA
Speed and power😂
Nah, a V12
Nobody:
Mike: Right now the only emissions I'm producing are from my breath and my farts.
Marc Hankwitz I read this as he said it, how did you do that?
Big Man, that was an excellent tour of Bonnie Scotland!,
I am an absolute Solar geek and only recently found out about electric skateboards. But here you are already made the exact video I was looking for!
Use the solar panels to charge a battery while moving, then use this battery to charge the board.
Learn how to spin pen on fingers like so he can see
That would take as long as the dotted line
@@whatwasthat4797 But that’s about his most viewed video on the channel so it wouldn’t be a problem for him, i guess
Mike your a great person and I appreciate all of your hard work in to doing these videos! So I hope you a great time and be happy!
He should cover an umbrella with solar panels and charge on the move
*Mike : These are my solar powered electric skateboard*
*Clouds* : *_I'm going to end this man's whole carrier_*
You should learn how to do the moonwalk
That can be learned in few hours or less.
@@tadic4285 he learned how to remove tablecloth with items on top in less than a minute. So...
yes he should
@@tadic4285 Few hours? I learned it in 20 minutes.
Unlike all of the haters, I think this is a great idea
Imagine this in Australia constant charge
That bright sun he was using just looked like late arvo 4:30pm sun
@@archygrey9093 u Aus?
@@jasonhushmonkey yes
@@archygrey9093 where Melb??
@@jasonhushmonkey Kimberley region
that looks kinda fun ngl.
range anxiety became sunlight anxiety.
i feel like some efficiency changes coulda been made. maybe wearing the panels to charge while riding. if not, charge a spare battery or battery pack instead.
Could you hang one of those solar panels on your back and charge while moving? It would look a bit tacky, sure, but it could extend the range between charges.
EDIT: Further note, you could increase the range a bit more by adjusting your posture on the board and pumping the trail when possible. You could only maintain an aero posture for so long, but it could help a bit.
Daniel Griffin how would he plug it in... the board doesn’t move whole charging
Skin suit. Modify the board so you charge the battery cells directly
Daniel Griffin you cant charge and ride at the same time
I wasn't sure if the board would turn on while plugged in. The plug seems to be on the side of the underbody, so in terms of cable routing it could work.
Perhaps an external battery (LiPo, though; those car batteries are designed for other things than storing lots of energy per weight)
I‘ve got no range anxiety, I use my legs 🌚
Walking 60 miles would take about 20 hours.
@@seigeengine Only 6 hours more than it took him
Or just a generic skateboard that isn’t electric
He could just push for the last few miles on his longboard
big lad booce that’s what I meant but it seems some ppl don‘t get it 😂
Honestly, i love these vids
Mike I live just outside of Glasgow and I have been watching you for years and you have made me try so many different things 🙏
You are such a great man and you inspire me everyday day and when I get home I hope you have uploaded a new video to make me happy and make me feel like I can do it thanks for everything
At first I was thinking, "Why is he doing this." then he said 7:16
"Day 1, hour 0" and it clicked.
Thank you so much you have boosted my self confidence and now I'm gonna learn something new!!!
Best video. Don’t understand how people can dislike this video.
Love how the internet is getting environnementally friendly, like planting 20m trees event is
Mike: Can you power a skateboard with just the sun?
Me:Well probably not...
Mike: why?
Me: YOU LIVE IN FLIPPING SCOTLAND!
Epic voyage! If you made the panels into a tunic or cape so you could supplement the battery charge while riding it would have helped a lot. Also maybe add a bike seat on a pole mounted on the board to spare your feet a bit.
1:09 anyone else find him putting the battery down satisfying?
Congratulations 2 million subscribers Mike .
This is the perfect summer board.
I absolutely love this, it makes me want to try an electric skateboard one day!
If your board can be charged when you are riding it, just keep the board plugged into the panels at all times and have the panels attached on your jacket some how so you can ride and charge at the same time
You should try this during summer in Iceland there is literally like 22 hours of sunlight during the solstice.
And 2 hours in the winter
Find out how long it takes you to learn to do everything with your left hand that you now do with your right hand, so just switch hand entirely
He's left handed though
@@AJplaysgames8907 then how long it takes for him to do everything with his right hand
Ive tried the masturbating part is pretty hard
He’s basically given up on the learning videos which kind of sucks. They’re not the same anymore
That’s excellent ! 🙌🏻
Pls can you do learn quick “learning to down a pint in 3 seconds”🙏🙏🙏
0:00 you forgot the most important "thing", the E-Girl
you could have tried to make these somewhat wearable so they could charge while you are on the road as well. great video mate keep this up!!
Learn to throw three darts in the tripple twenty in a row.
I used to carry a spare battery in my bag to swap out on my boosted board. An idea for a V2 of your solar system could be mounting panels to your bag and charging a second battery while draining the one on the board. It would take a fair bit more time to charge than the 4 panel system you used but even getting half a charge over hours of riding would help reduce your stop times.
Next project: nuclear powered skateboard
It works for Mars rovers.
Next project: super nova purebred skateboard
It's all fun and games till I push with my legs
@@2ndplayerboi *avengers theme intensifies*
Awesome! Could it be done without the support vehicle (Kim) with snacks though?
Dear Mike, I don’t have fancy clothes, a sweater ore a hat with ‘fuck’ on it... i watched you’re video’s in 8 hours, 56 minutes and 53 seconds in 2 days and suddenly it struck my mind.... you are my best abbonee on TH-cam! Best channel ever, with no douth !
You could also make a small wind turbine on your skateboard that charges the battery while driving. So you don't have to stop that often and you could use it to charge at night.
You should make a vid about learning how to moonwalk
TIp for long longboard rides: gel innersole. Makes world of difference
This reminds me of the hover boards in the Uglies series!
Everyone watching this in the winter is jealous of the sun at 7: 30pm!
"The only emissions in exerting are my breath and my farts"- Mike Boyd 2019
You could ride with one of the solar panels out on your bag to recharge whilst riding.
Discharging and charging a battery at the same time (especially a skateboard battery) would lead to imminent fire or just general battery burnout
Not necessarily since his back wouldnt always be facing the sun, the chord could get pulled out while riding, and a few other issues that could arise. If you get William Osman to build a setup that rotates the panels to face the sun at all times like he did with the hat, then yeah it might be viable
@@catman08724 kinda like with phones.
@@catman08724 yeah good point I hadn't thought of that
HI Mike Boyd learn the doomsday calendar/ how to tell the day of the week on any date! Love your content!
Got some balls to be wearing shorts during all this.
"Can You Power an Electric Skateboard Using the Sun?"
Well yes, but actually no.
Really the answer is a solid no. You're wasting so much *time* waiting for it to charge, it's pointless. You'd literally be much much faster just taking a bike ride instead. Did you know it takes roughly 17 hours to walk 60 miles? Yeah, you'd arrive around the same time just by walking. In fact, that's electric anything's biggest issue, time to charge sucks. Keep in mind how putting some gas in a car takes like maybe 5 to 10 minutes at worst. And realise how we will never see huge batteries charge within 10 minutes and it couldn't ever be a legit substitute. Yeah it sounds nice that you can charge at home at night through regular power grid. But that's like filling up your car with gas in your home town station, it would simply never be an issue. It only becomes an issue when travelling large distances. And currently the smallest range (as in, worst case scenario) of a single charged battery in electric cars and such suuuucks. The whole emissions thing is also questionable, as electric power still comes from all manner of power plants, including coal power plants and such. And I don't think I have to tell you what kind of a toxic mess batteries are in terms of waste by the time it all breaks or is thrown away. Electric cars do nothing for a better environment.
Really just a regular longboard would be better
@@PHeMoX Yeah, beacuse carbon dioxyde is DEFINITALLY better than an environnementally friendly solar panel.
@@PHeMoX Actually, look up v3 tesla supercharging. From 0% to around 70% can be charged up in about 15 minutes (extremely high charge current). Also, while you're at it, look up the ranges for teslas, which really aren't much less than most gas cars. Finally, powerplants are much more efficient ways to convert fossil fuels into energy when compared to a combustion engine, therefore saving fuel, and if you retrofit your house with solar, then it truly is totally off the grid
PHeMoX there are plenty of videos explaining how even if you get electricity from a city that gets its electricity purely from coal plants, it is still more efficient and better for the environment. But you are right about the range problem, at least right now. You’re saying a battery will never charge in ten minutes, but that’s just right now. Technology is evolving fast and you’ll be surprised how soon that is gonna be a reality.
Mike do you have a World Record...if not why don't you convert some of your learning skills into a fight gaining some of world records on learning or anything else...
Gear Up MB🔥
I love the „7 years later“ of waiting for a sunny day 😂😂😂😂
Also make some type of switch to place is in drive and manuel like a vacuum to charge it and can kick for a lil bit so you don't have to charge or a motor that would recharge it stap off momentum by amplifying each kick
Mike: Solar Charging!
Night: *I’m about end this mans whole career*
Challenge: learn how to do a wall flip as fast as you can
Mike I like all of your vids .....they are so cool n i like when u try again n again
I’ve got my engineering gcse practical where I have to use “clean energy” to power anything and this just might be what I’m gonna do.