Inboard’s M1 matched Boosted’s board on specs, while also offering a few key advantages, including in-wheel motors (which let users ride more freely when the board isn’t under power) and a swappable battery that can be quickly popped out of the deck for a fresh one. Inboard arrived on the scene in late 2015 / early 2016, and it was one of the first to seriously compete with fellow California-based startup Boosted’s popular electric skateboard. To handle the demand for this newly focused push on providing fleets of scooters, Evans says Inboard will partner with “one of the world’s leading contract manufacturers,” though he declined to name which one. The startup will also work with “much smaller operators of fleets that include hotels, resorts, corporate campuses, and business parks,” he says.

The company’s new direction will start to take shape when Inboard announces its first partnership with a large transportation company later this year, CEO Ryan Evans tells The Verge. The scooter was originally supposed to launch in February The scooter, now called the G1 Glider, was originally supposed to launch in February. Those refunds will start going out today to the 1,500 people who put down deposits, according to Inboard, and they will all be processed by April 15th. All customers who plunked down a $349 deposit for the $1,299 electric scooter will be refunded, the company says. Instead, the company will focus on selling fleets of the scooter to businesses and transportation companies to be used on campuses, at resorts, or on city streets in both docked and dockless configurations. The electric skateboard startup’s first scooter will now only be available in fleets starting this summerĮlectric skateboard startup Inboard Technology no longer plans to sell its upcoming Glider electric scooter directly to consumers. Inboard refunds electric scooter customers as it pivots to shared fleets

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