SKWHEEL Electric Skis Turn Urban Streets Into Ski Trails – No Snow Required

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Is this the future of urban skiing? To be honest, I didn’t know urban skiing was a thing, except maybe for those living in very snowy locations, but according to a French startup, the future of urban skiing lies with its product, a pair of 4-wheel drive electric skis, called SKWHEEL.

The SKWHEEL features a 600W electric motor in each of its 4 wheels, which have the potential to boost the ‘skier’ to speeds of up to 50 mph, although the company says that they initially will be speed limited at the factory to about 15.5 mph. When coupled with a pair of 300Wh lithium batteries, the SKWHEEL is said to be able to cover up to 18.6 miles (30 km), and the batteries can be fast-charged in about two…