The World's Best Electric Skateboard

Slide4less has been selling and servicing electric skateboards and longboards continuously longer than anybody. We've outlasted ownership changes at Exkate, and now we're testing the new Chinese entries into the market. At this point, we have accumulated more parts for old boards than many of the top manufacturers.

The electronic skateboard was invented by Louis Finkle, the first guy we distributed the boards for way back when. Louis still lives in Long Beach, California. He developed the board himself with money from his own pocket. It took about five years to perfect the invention, and now the board has undergone several transformations, so it's starting to catch on with the mainstream.

Louis is well known for his interest in electronics, especially electric motors. The X-24 board employs a very durable and heavily built one-horsepower 24 Volt DC motor. This is a unique design invented by Louis. The hand remote uses a very low frequency signal, and uses the operator as the antennae. Unlike other transceivers, this design virtually eliminates the possibility of the board getting any kind of signal interference, which would make the board unsafe.

The boards have been sold to people who wanted them the most. Production has always been limited. Yet, the electric skateboard has consistently attracted more and more attention. 

The Exkate X-24 Powerboard is currently in limited production, it is made by hand in the U.S.A. and each is individually tuned. It is in a constant process of evolution.  It's a specialty item that is now highly refined and functional.

In November 2002, David Kaplan took over the manufacturing of the Powerboard and moved the operation to Sausalito in Marin County, California.

Large scale production of the boards caught on in the fall of 2004. The X-24 - 'the grandaddy of electric skateboards' - is still expensive and still 'the king'. But now the X-24 is fading away and we have some other entrants into the market, including some lower priced options that will get more started with one of the world's greatest extreme sports: Powerboarding.

In 2004-5, new entrants into the market like E-glide began marketing electric skateboards in competition with Exkate. This new company was founded by an experienced entrepreneur named Dave Lohrlie.

Dave almost immediate got embroiled into protracted legal 'wrangling' with Exkate. Exkate has a patent on the hand remote board, and they were determined to maintain exclusive rights to the US market.

Dave Lohrlie was persistent, and in the beginning of 2005 he went in a different direction making custom decks and starting design of new tethered electronics. These efforts set the stage for a competitive but fair environment between Exkate and E-Glide.

In 2005, a number of newcomers jumped into the market. Hoverboard and Free Rider appeared and they are trying to mount an effort with a competing board.

Call Steve or Darren at 1-800-659-8731 and find out more about electric skateboards today!

2001 Japan X-Games Qualifications. Exhibition on Louis Finkel's Exkate X-24 (Series 1) by X-Games Athletes - the start of electric skateboarding Click Here To Return to Powerboard Home Page Powerboard Shopping