Rumour: New Evolve skateboard remote to be released October 21st 2016

Emails received from Evolve Australia to a few customers indicate a new remote may be released as soon as 1 week from today!

 

Unfortunately I don't believe it will be possible, we'll have to wait and see though.

 

Unfortunately not I already asked

 

Any idea if it's just software upgrade Andy? Or are there physical adjustments?

 

aesthetically no, inside not sure, just the button config change from what I understand. Hope to get my hands on one soon.

 

no idea, i expect they will filter through with the new batches of boards. Surprised they didn't call it the F1 remote with paddle gears ha ha luxury remote upgrade you have standard then this ha ha but looks like it will be a free upgrade with new boards, nice one always Evolving! I dont mind buying one as having a 2nd remote is well handy!

 

Mate, Tim, it's the story of my life! A month after I bought my Carbon, the GT's were announced and now I'm stuck riding my single motor while you lucky folk are bombing it around on your GTs

It's the nature of the beast unfortunately with a fast moving fledgling industry like this.

While we could get frustrated about it, a better approach is to appreciate the incredibly fast response to feedback from users and progress in innovation and improvement.

I would much prefer that improved tech gets approval and release within months instead of having to wait for a 12-24 month manufacturing cycle.

Bring on the improvements I say! (Even if I am still puttering about on my old Carbon )

 

Yep when your on the cutting edge all things are constantly evolving. The original carbon was a complete difffent beast to the single motor one now, due to constant refinements and upgrades as each batch came along. its cool that motor controllers, bms and maybe even batteries get improved as tech advances. Defo also a good sign Jeff was open to feedback and made design change pretty rapidly. We only spoke about it at the Evolve World Cup in June where the idea was born.

 

Updated info from Evolve USA

According to German sources the new remote will start shipping with new boards from next week!

 

Did y

did ya convince Evolve to do it tho? Broken arm helped methinks lol

 

I believe it will start to ship with all new boards, and it will be compatible.

Andy is currently looking into how availability will work for those on the existing remotes to see how they can upgrade.

 

Yep backward compatible. No firmware upgrade can be made unfortunately. So it's a matter of buying a new remote if want new button config. Next batch of GTs that arrive in Nov will have new config.