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My name is Tobias. A simple Swede with an amazing wife and 3 kids.<\/p>\nMy name is Tobias. A simple Swede with an amazing wife and 3 kids.<\/p>\n
The following is the short but uncut story of how I fell in love with EV’s, electric vehicles.<\/p>\n
It started at a young age when I first fell in love with skateboarding and everything else that made the adrenaline pump through my veins for that matter. Unfortunately, I never got any good at riding, but still had a blast doing so.<\/p>\n
As I grew older, my parents got me my first snowboard and I then started to compete in Slopestyle and Big Air back in Sweden at the age of 13, this time I actually won a few prices.<\/p>\n
In 2008 I got my degree as a car technician and started working at a local car repair center.<\/p>\n
Throughout my childhood years, I lived in the garage with my dad and tinkered with everything from an old radio to cars. I never took no for an answer, no matter how many times he told me things wouldn’t work. I did prove him wrong many times, but not always.<\/p>\n
I got my first electric scooter<\/a> at a very young age but back then they did about 5 mph and I could barely get around the block before I had to plug it in for an overnighter. I still look back at those memories with a smile on my face and remember my young self thinking,\u00a0what if they could go faster.<\/p>\n My next encounter with electric rides wasn’t until early 2015. I had just found out about the hoverboard craze that was going on in the US and was so eager to get one. However,\u00a0I couldn’t afford one back then so I was up many nights in a row watching videos, reading and just researching. I saw many questions arise to which I could, without actually owning a hoverboard of my own, help answer. I have my background as a car technician and the fact that I still loved tinkering with electric things to thank for that.<\/p>\n I then started a blog<\/a> where I explained how they worked and how to repair them if they broke down. After a while, things started to heat up. Literally, hoverboards started to catch fire. So I wrote about that and the reasons that I could come up with which might have caused these accidents.<\/p>\n Then I started to get emails from people on the other side of the world who asked me for advice on which model they should buy. I told them I didn’t own one myself but had done extensive research on all the available models.<\/p>\n I remember one guy named Thomas who asked me if I had an Amazon affiliate link for the product that I had just recommended him. I didn’t know what that was at the moment. So he explained that if I registered for the Amazon affiliate program, which I did, I could earn a commission from his purchase and that was his way of saying thank you for the help.<\/p>\n After a few emails had been answered, I had enough to actually buy myself a hoverboard. So I picked the model that I had recommended. I then wrote a detailed review of the product and things just started to pick up. From there I bought another one, then another one.<\/p>\n I then did the same thing for the people back home in Sweden. Unfortunately, in Sweden, there weren’t any 100% safe options to recommend. So I contacted the companies which I recommended in the US and asked if I could help them set up shop in Sweden. They weren’t interested, but one gave me their contact in China. So I reached out to him and ordered 10 hoverboards. I sold those units the same day they arrived and since then I’ve sold more than 2500 units of hoverboards, electric scooters, and skateboards.<\/p>\n Much of my work has been referred to in articles on large US and Swedish news sites. I have also been asked to help advise the Swedish transportation administration<\/a> on how they should tackle the future of electric personal transportation vehicles.<\/p>\n