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what's up guys we're on pray to hear from TechnoBuffalo and a couple of months ago we did a video called transport tech we covered three alternative ways to get around whether it be the boosted board the ER be or the specialized electric bike today we're back with part two of that series three other alternative ways to get around they come in at different price points different budgets and we want to see whether they're any good or not let's go ahead an get started this last year hoverboards became all the rage and for a lot of us it was a reminder of what segway originally made the whole paul blart mall cop style standing segway now segway is jumping into that hoverboard market with this sort of hybrid product called the mini pro it's very similar to your standard hoverboard however it has a stick in the middle that goes in between your legs that you allow to maneuver side to side the wheels are a little bit bigger and as a whole the whole thing is a bit more stable a little bit slower the trade-offs that we really recognize where the hoverboards are a little more fun a little faster a little riskier compared to the segway mini pro it really boils down with a question of how thrill-seeking are you also some of the hoverboards have a history of blowing up the segway mini pro does not so if you're willing to explode go fast and fall hoverboards are perfect for you but if you're interested in shying away from these things much like i am the segway mini pro is gonna be a great alternative another cool little feature with the segway mini pro is the app that allows you to wirelessly control the mini pro without having anybody on it i don't know how useful this is but it's definitely a cool party trick next we have the COO wheel d3m this is effectively a budget version of the boosted board in some ways it's better and usable in other ways it is not its way cheaper than a boosted work coming in at six hundred dollars for the dual motor version whereas for a boosted board you have to be well over a thousand dollars to get that same dual motor version however there's a lot of differences and you see that price gap really come into play here well the board is built pretty well it doesn't have that flexible type deck that the boosted board has which is not necessarily a con it's just something cool that I really missed but the big issues were really with the remote controller it's super super low quality and there's very very low amount of travel on the thumb controller meaning the acceleration deceleration is super abrupt if you've ever ridden an electric skateboard you know they can be very sketchy combine this with the short travel of the thumb controller and it's an accident waiting to happen one of the bigger issues with the control it would just randomly disconnect while I was using it since we experienced this issue kuya reached out to us and let us know that this was a manufacturing issue that has now been fixed but unfortunately we have no way of testing this but when it did work it worked well enough at the price range so if this is gonna be something that you're just going to want to have fun with over the weekends I can recommend it if you want to use a day-to-day commuter this is nowhere near good enough or reliable enough and I would recommend selling out the extra money on something higher end and last but definitely not least we have an electric folding bike from turn called a vectron this bike is very expensive it retails for thirty four hundred dollars and if you supported them on Kickstarter you could get one for three thousand dollars regardless this is not going to be a fun toy you just buy because you want to this is going to be a commuting alternative that you use to get from point A to point B the good thing is for that purpose this bike lives up to everything that you would want except the folding portability part I want to make it clear that while it does fold up in under 10 seconds as advertised it is 48.1 pounds by no means are you can be carrying this thing around quickly and easily it's definitely a heavy piece of machinery it's up to you whether or not you're willing to put up with the wait for me I'd much rather have a lighter standard folding bike that I pedal myself however once you have unfolded this bike it works pretty well the bike itself feels very high quality feels very very premium from there onward you're pretty much just pedaling yourself so your top speed is really dictated by how fast you can ride a bike if your Lance Armstrong that's going to be a lot faster than what I got it has arranged between 30 to 80 miles of distance which is very good you can go very very long distances I'm not sure who's going 80 miles on the bike in one trip but if you are props to you a feature the turn is very proud of is that this is the first Bosch powered electric bike I mean you can walk into any box store and pick up a replaceable battery that will fit immediately and you'll be on your merry way I thought this meant you would carry around a spare batter in your backpack for extra range or whatever reason I don't know why you need an extra battery with 80 miles of rain but if you did I thought that would be a really cool way to carry one around however I come to find out that the batteries are insanely expensive somewhere between 600 to 900 dollars depending on the capacity or more if you're going to be going for a bigger capacity battery so battery plates ones on here are going to be once the battery dies but we were also told the components of the bike would wear down before the battery wears down which is obviously very good sign because the components feel very solid in very high quality just know that if you're willing to deal with the weight of this folding electric bike it's a great travel and transport alternative and so that's pretty much it for this video guys those are three alternative tech transport methods using electricity let us know what you guys think in the comments down below do you like any of them would you get any of these three and do you like this series if you want to see more from us give us a thumbs up and we'll see you guys in the next one thank you so much for watching