The 14 Best Cheap Electric Skateboards (2021)

Buying Considerations for Cheap Electric Skateboards

I imagine you might think that buying a cheap electric skateboard means you’ll be receiving an inferior product. Well, I can assure you that is not always the case.

In the last few years, the eskate industry has become extremely competitive with more and more manufacturers popping up everywhere. This has sparked a fury of innovation and price cuts bringing the cost of manufacturing an electric skateboard down while increasing the quality of the components.

Nowadays, you can get an affordable electric skateboard without sacrificing quality or features.

The big brands like Boosted and Evolve can still offer a premium product at a premium price because you pay for things like brand trust, customer service, next-level component quality and detailed quality assurance testing.

Budget electric skateboards don’t have the level of quality that the premium boards have, but they don’t really need to. The cheaper eboards are still of great quality.

Features like LED lights, mobile apps, replaceable wheels, swappable batteries used to be reserved for the more expensive eboards, but with innovation, we are starting to see a lot of those features being offered by the budget electric skateboard companies.

The performance specs between a premium brand and a budget electric skateboard brand are nearly non-existent. You can pay a lot less for the same, if not more, the performance of a premium board by choosing a good quality cheap eboard.

A big one to note is that in some cases, the budget eboard brands don’t have the level of customer support that you might expect. This is because most of the affordable electric skateboard companies are from China and they don’t quite meet the expectations of westerners when it comes to customer service. A lot of it is due to translation errors and timezone restrictions which makes communication just that little bit harder.

I must say though, that the companies in China are getting a lot better at servicing their customers.

All-in-all, buying a cheap electric skateboard won’t leave you disappointed. You still get great quality, top performance, interesting features and an improving level of customer service for a fraction of the price.

When just starting out in the eskate game, or when buying for your kids, buying an affordable electric skateboard is the perfect place to start.

There really is no need to jump up into the premium range right away. Test the waters here and upgrade after you realise how much you love it!

Ride safe out there eSkaters!