As an electrical bike/automotive fanatic and snowboarder, I’ve at all times puzzled if an electrical, cross-country snowboard could be doable. You understand, when the mountain isn’t out there? Cyrusher’s $3300 Ripple is among the first makes an attempt at constructing such a monster.

Due to my twin love for snowboarding and electrical mobility, I obtained a Ripple advert in my Insta feed yesterday. Now I can’t get the concept of an electrical snowboard out of my thoughts.

The lone official Cyrusher Ripple Youtube video, uploaded 11 days in the past, seems completely scary with the spiked metallic wheel within the again spinning a number of inches away from the rider’s arms and toes. The goofy driving consumer additionally appears to be driving on a mountain, which type of obviates the necessity for a motorized board. Then he switches to what seems just like the final day of snow on an east coast mountain with grass and rocks in every single place. He doesn’t appear to be doing a lot carving both which doesn’t look like a ton of enjoyable.

The Ripple is a 3kW motor connected to an electrical clawed wheel within the rear of the board.

The fairly massive, squared battery lives in a backpack and is connected to the snowboard through a cable. Like electrical skateboards, it’s managed with a handheld set off.

Cyrusher says this factor has some fairly nutty specs:

• 50km/h or 31mph high velocity
• 15-20km or 12 miles of vary
• 3kW of motor energy
• 12.6Ah Battery and assuming ~50V round 630Wh right into a backpack with USB ports.
• 156cm deck measurement
• Weight: 15kg (33 lbs)

There’s a lone Youtube wanting somebody efficiently testing out this factor:

As for competitors within the electrical snowboard, there’s additionally a Russian tank monitor scooter that has been round for a number of years however sadly hasn’t been seen in western markets, in addition to numerous DIY tasks.

Cyrusher introduced a 44mph electrical surfboard again in September and one has to marvel if these are simply advertising instruments to deliver customers to the positioning to purchase Cyrusher’s strong e-bikes.

Electrek’s Take

I’d like to strive the Ripple electrical snowboard however I’m unsure this may show helpful in too many conditions. It might be helpful to leap on a cross-country snowboarding path or to go up a mountain that might be then snowboarded down – just like driving an e-bike up a mountain after which taking it down like a downhill bike.

I’ve to marvel nevertheless if the all-terrain scooters, like this one from Zondoo could be higher within the snow if their wheels have been changed by the Ripple snowboard’s rear metallic spool.

That mentioned, I’d love to do this factor so if anybody at Cyrusher is studying this, get in contact!

And naturally, I’m reminded of this: