As many of you may already know if you have been following me lately, I seem to have a strange attraction to vehicles with only one wheel. I have been riding my EUC for a while now and really enjoy it, I still do in fact very much. Along with the EUC there is another electric vehicle that has only one wheel and ironically it is called the Onewheel which is a brand name from the company Future Motion originating out of California.

Both of these devices have their pros and cons as they are the same in many ways and also different in many ways, but that is for other videos to discuss. One con for the Onewheel system is a much lower range especially in the older models, my Onewheel Plus is limited to around 8-10km total distance that I can ride with the stock battery. In this video I talk about the Charge and Ride setup which is an option owners of earlier versions of Onewheels may want to consider to extend their range and lesson range anxiety if you have an original Onewheel or a Onewheel Plus. There are a few early version of Onewheel XR's that this mod can also be done to, but if you have hardware version 4208 on your XR, this is not possible, so check your XR first before attempting this mod.

I don't want to drag this on as this post is far from a complete tutorial but rather an example of how the Charge and Ride setup works for me in real life with the slightly different system that I am using. Most Charge and Ride setups utilize an external Battery with a Solar Charge Controller where as I am using a 250 watt 277wh Portable Power Station connected to my original charger along with an adaptor cable that removes the 3rd pin connection from the XLR connector used with the Onewheel. By the way the number 3 pin on the XLR cable is not actually used for charging but rather it informs the Onewheel that a charge cable is connected and not to turn on. If you remove power to the 3rd pin for the Onewheel versions One and Plus, you trick the board into thinking it is regening rather than charging and so it stays on while charging.

If you plan on doing this Charge and Ride Mod, do so at your own risk as there are risks involve: as in overcharging your battery, damaging your charge port, having your backpack catch on fire and I am sure many others... For me using the Charge and Ride setup on my first test ride, I was able to get 14km range only using 46% of the battery with a 40% regen factor. This 14km ride only used about half of my Power Stations battery so I expect I should be able to get close to 25-30km range using this setup.