Can We Make a Battery Powered Hoverboard to Out Perform the Modern Tricked Out Skateboard?

The search to construct the first hoverboard which will operate similar to usually the one in the Hollywood Movie - "Back to the Future" is an on-going dream of several technology buffs. The race is onto develop the style and technology to produce a true to life version. Recently, at the Online Think Tank, a new up and coming superstar, Christopher Freeman (16) from Indiana ponders the question:

What about a Battery Powered Hoverboard?

Well, we realize that batteries weigh a whole lot, but using a "hovercraft" type strategy, the weight is not a big issue, provided that you are able to trap the air and store it. Hovering on a flat work surface helps, but you can't do many tricks or you lose your air underneath. There can be a way to solve that problem by having an expandable skirt and some ground affect soft landings.

Perhaps, you can use a battery system, the lighter the better. But, also know that the electric motor self balancing scooter are some 400 lbs and only able to do what an 80cc motor can do. Now then, it generally does not take quite definitely energy to blow 2 Lbs of low pressure under the hoverboard, so you don't need a lot of power.

If you are using the ram air from the forward momentum to help, then you need less power and have more hovering ability as you go faster, allowing you to go slightly higher. The big issue is when you allow the air escape it is similar to a giant waste gate and the hoverboard will land.

There have been hover-cars built that may go down the road at 60 mph, an old NASA rocket scientist built one once and he use to operate a vehicle it around the Valley, a Los Angeles suburb in the 1960s. Basically his hover-car, looked like only a little flying saucer, had little friction on the ground as they do not touch the bottom, but his had wheels underneath for steering and stopping.

Remember on a skateboard we should catch air, but if you are merely buying a skateboard to work just like a hovercraft, sure we can build one and use some extra tricks to produce it perform, but, does it be fun to ride, is it possible to do tricks? But I believe Christopher is onto something here, why not build a battery powered hoverboard, I want one too.

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