Onan X2 is no exception, especially if you intend to compare it to the Mellow Drive: Onan X2 ReviewĬhina Boards always comes with amazing specs with an amazing price. don’t use blue and black?Īnyways, I believe no one will mistakenly buy a $600 Onan thinking it is a $1600 Mellow, so I don’t see any ethical problem just for being born from the same concept.Ĭompetition benefits us all, after all.
I mean, if it’s hurting them somehow, why don’t they just… you know. Today, Onan also is very reluctant to be associated with the Mellow (probably for legal reasons), but I doubt their similarity with the much more recognizable Mellow is bothering them that much. Onan claims their design is not a copy of the Mellow Drive (of course it wasn’t, the designs of those boosters are very different). Without missing a beat, they started shipping Onan X1 in April 2016, more than a year earlier before the day Mellow Drive finally arrives. Meanwhile, Onan took the concept of the electric skateboard booster and designed the Onan X1.
However, delays after delays, they only manage to ship the Mellow Drive around August 2017. Mellow first made popular the concept of Electric Booster back on when they launched their Kickstarter project. They look similar, share the same color scheme and have similar features. Some people say that Onan is just a copycat of the Mellow Drive, for obvious reason. The wonderful part of this arrangement is, the reseller could and did work as an extra level of quality control, and also act as an intermediary between the manufacturer and the skaters – something that other China Eskate manufacturers could very well use, seeing that they are known to have their PR efforts backfire on them. To facilitate their sales and service, Onan has enlisted a few reseller such as Griffin Boards, Ivory Boards, Nuffboards and Flight Mode. (Someone like me, actually), and doesn’t need the big 93mm wheels that Onan X2 has. It was meant for people who didn’t need to go that fast or to climb that steep. Onan X3 arrived at the market in April of 2017. This is the Booster that Onan sent me for review. It has a top speed that, for me, are well into the ‘danger zone’ and it also has more torque compares to the X1. It was made for people who demanded a powerful booster. Onan X2 arrived at the market at Oct 2016. (Looking to buy one? Too bad it was discontinued.) It was, however, reliable and affordable. Not going fast enough for most of the people and not going far enough either. On April 2016, Onan arrived at electric skateboard scene with their Onan X1 Booster. They do Electric skateboard, Electric scooter, Electric Bikes etc.
Onan is manufactured by Guangzhou WOW Electric Technology Co., Ltd. However, only 3 of them seems to matters.ġst and for most, people talk about how Mellow is great but super expensive.Ģnd, people talk about how Landwheel is very ambitious but unreliable.Īnd last but not least we have the Onan. So, for electric skateboard booster, there are actually quite a few of them in the market. It’s a 15 minutes work and voila, an electric skateboard with your favorite deck! Sometimes I wonder, if you already have a good longboard deck lying around, why not just buy a booster to convert it into an electric skateboard? The most popular thing to do in the electric skateboard world right now could probably be – swapping the deck of the Meepo Board.
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