Check out this guy on an electric scooter towing his motor boat

Earlier this month, an adolescent taking his boat right down to the water went viral after a driver caught his fascinating tow job on digital camera. With out a automotive or truck to tow the boat, the intelligent proprietor was ready to make use of a way more environment friendly car: an electrical scooter.

The Australian boater was heading to the water along with his jon boat in tow, rigged behind his standing electrical scooter.

In a setup that may solely be described as a “don’t do this at dwelling” state of affairs, he tied the boat trailer to himself utilizing a belt after which stood on the scooter to tow it alongside the roadside path.

The 14-year-old rider advised the local news that he had been taking the boat from his Rothwell dwelling to the Deception Bay Mud Flats. If Google Maps is to be believed, that’s a distance of round 8 km (5 miles).

“When it goes uphill, it has some issues, however downhill and flat, it pulls it high quality,” he defined.

It could appear odd, however the teen’s towing demonstration was completely authorized. Queensland doesn’t have any particular legal guidelines on the books concerning the kind of car required for towing a ship, saying solely {that a} “appropriate car” be used.

Primarily based on how effectively it seems just like the towing labored, I’d say that the electrical scooter was adequately fitted to the job.

Now that he’s seen how effectively electrical drive works on land, I’ve to surprise if he’ll be changing that combustion engine outboard with a quieter and extra environment friendly electric boat motor.

Curiously, this isn’t even the primary time we’ve seen somebody in Australia towing a ship with an electrical scooter. Nonetheless, final time it was a a lot bigger boat and a barely completely different kind of electrical scooter.

After all this teenager’s towing job was a customized setup, however electrical scooters used for towing have been seen as industrial options as effectively. Years in the past I tested out an electric scooter that got here with its personal trailer for towing groceries and different cargo.

Nowadays you could find plenty of trailers for electrical bikes, and even kits that let you tow one e-bike with one other e-bike.