At least they are silent. The new Chinese ones "supposedly" last over an hour, range of 24km and top speed of 40km/h.

Once you are on an open swell or wave you wouldn't even need the motor.



China will mass produce these soon enough for $600-$1000 (unlike that $200 scam in the other post about E-foils.) Will it be the next "Explosive Hoverboard thingy"

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Nothing like explosive and burning Lithium juice all over you in the middle of the ocean.

Or will they require registration, Skippers ticket, a life jacket, Epirb, Flares...

or be immediately banned, after slicing dolphins and children in half?

Or you could just build your own. efoil.builders/categories

It is inevitable. Mass produced commercially available and affordable electric foils ARE COMING!

That'll be sick for places like noosa or banzai pipeline

You got it all wrong

djt91184 said..
Plus places like north point 3 bears padang padang up the wave count fosho

You want a nice long point break like Snapper to Greenmount then to Kirra. Once you are on the wave no need for "a battery style assault".

You could probably get about 20 waves out of a charge. Then just swap out the 18650's you got on Ozbargain for another few goes.

Just think of the thousands of happy locals and tourists enjoying and sharing 1.5km waves together.

So much carving and spraying (blood mainly). There would be no animosity towards each other.

The fish would be fed from little johnny slipping into the lineup and the resulting Sharks would be culled by foils.

Win WIn?

Regardless. It's gonna happen.

But I do think they will get HEAVILY regulated, banned from certain areas.

Fine on a Windsurfer, Kiteboard, SUP or small yacht, but once you add the POWA!

Maybe a battery boost is what we need to leave the breaks. If the Specs are right you could travel from Rottnest to the mainland on 1 charge in glass. Or wait for the seabreeze and barely use the battery.

We will see...

You would be buggered if it broke down on you a long way from home especially if you are out on the open water

rockmagnet said..
You would be buggered if it broke down on you a long way from home especially if you are out on the open water

Which is why you will be forced to have a Registration, License, life jacket, flares, EPIRB, UHF and VHF radio, Satellite phone, First Aid kit, 2 days supply of food and water and a waterproof solar panel recharge station.

To be honest, the same can happen with a Windsurfer, Kiter, SUP, Jet ski, boat, canoe, kayak, boogie board, inflatable bed, floaties, etc.

Common sense needs to come into it.

It does look like fun for a few hours. These things are gonna end up everywhere if they aren't regulated.

I'm on the fence... I can just see 12 year old kids zooming around on these things everywhere in the future.

rockmagnet said..
You would be buggered if it broke down on you a long way from home especially if you are out on the open water

and thats why i reckon they will be banned as farkheads will take them out 20km offshore then call for help

Windpasser said........you will be forced to have a Registration, License, life jacket, flares, EPIRB, UHF and VHF radio, Satellite phone, First Aid kit, 2 days supply of food and water and a waterproof solar panel recharge station.

rockmagnet said..
You would be buggered if it broke down on you a long way from home especially if you are out on the open water

Which is why you will be forced to have a Registration, License, life jacket, flares, EPIRB, UHF and VHF radio, Satellite phone, First Aid kit, 2 days supply of food and water and a waterproof solar panel recharge station.

To be honest, the same can happen with a Windsurfer, Kiter, SUP, Jet ski, boat, canoe, kayak, boogie board, inflatable bed, floaties, etc.

Common sense needs to come into it.

It does look like fun for a few hours. These things are gonna end up everywhere if they aren't regulated.

I'm on the fence... I can just see 12 year old kids zooming around on these things everywhere in the future.

Yes they need anchors too.

I have visions of many people commuting, drybag in a backpack, 20km down the Parramatta River from Rydalmere to those strange stairs under the Sydney Harbour Bridge at Dawes Point. Will there be a service centre at Circular Quay?

Will the eFoil be a reality?

Kudos to the calming music, the type of tunes I chill to when stuff is going right outdoors.

Could be interesting for long point breaks where you ride 50m out on the shoulder, but I have enough stuff alleady seriously dont need more gadgets

dmitri said..

Kamikuza said..

evlPanda said..
I hope they replace Jet Skis.

You reckon? The drongos who ride jet skis can barely cope with sitting on the things, I don't think they're going to go through the effort of learning to foil...

Haha..So true.
Stand-ups went extinct. No one buys them.

Don't the freestyle guys still use them? That's actually fun to watch, but mostly it's just retards going fast in a straight line buzzing the swimmers riding their unsinkable armchairs.

We actually have a number of deaths annually on the lake here -- imagine a road that's 10 to 20 km wide and these halfwits still manage to run into each other at full speed.

and you could take the missus to work too !
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You could pull a prawn net between two of them