If the hills are too steep the motor and battery can get very hot and in the middle of riding the skateboard shuts down from over heating. This is a safety feature on some models. Going at maximum speed and breaking a lot makes the battery wear down and the hill speed diminishes after this. The persons weight also effects how fast it can go up the hill. The wind direction also can make a difference if its blowing hard at you.
Some motors are not powerful enough to go up steep hills and if they are, it puts strain on certain boards and can overheat the motor and fry the copper windings (or aluminum windings on cheaper motors). see my motor page.
Yes, make sure you know if the board has copper and not aluminum windings.
Ask any motor company that actually takes a rolls of windings and produces their own motors. They know the problems with aluminum windings on cheap ass motors.
Note: make sure you let me know the hills you want to climb. I mean the degree of the slope. Some boards struggle to go up hills and the whole time I am just pissed off because I want it to go faster but it can't. Some boards have a better ability to climb higher degree sloped hills. Let me know if you want to go up really steep hills. It will require a different motor (wattage and amperage set up) NOTE: a 600 watt motor can have a varying degree of amperage ratings.
One of the worst case scenarios is that you have to get a running start to get the board started up a hill. Some boards you don't have to do this at all. Also, on boards that struggle to go up hills, this can screw up the belt if the weight of the person is too heavy. The tension in the belt weakens and has too heavy of a load on it. Many times you can hear the belt slipping. Electric skate have narrower or wider belts. The wider ones are usually better for carrying heavier people. There are some very high quality belts that are narrow such as the Gates brand. I wish everyone used their belts. I talked to a lot of people and the mechanics I talked to almost all said this is the best belt. See my Belt Review Page.
Note: The battery is the most expensive part of the electric set up. It is not as important what the wattage of the motor is and how high end the motor is if the battery can't back it up to power it. Their are some electric skateboards being imported here but the batteries are no where nearly as powerful as I like them. The motors are high end but the batteries can't even provide enough energy for it to go up a steep hill fast and usually I have to push it to get it going.
If you are serious about getting top hill speed or want to have longer life of the battery while going up more hills, let me know on my skate quiz. Some of the motors are great but the batteries suck and just knowing that my run time is being sucked away from going up hills when I could be using a better battery.
Hill performance is one of the biggest complaints I get. Let me know about your hills on my skate quiz.
DO NOT BUY WITHOUT READING THIS PAGE FIRST
ELECTRIC SKATEBOARD AWARENESS REPORTS
NEW CONSUMER GUIDE
How to chose between Brushed VS Brushless
How to chose between Belt VS Chain
How to chose between Low Wattage vs High Wattage
How to choose between a super light board and a super heavy board
