Yes Gordon. The early ones came to market ten or fifteen years ago. No pedals, just a powerful motor and some pretty slick software that shares a lot with the algorithms of a segway.Gordonhooker wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 9:05 am
Can you get e-unicycles? Now that would be a hoot.....
The early ones were made in low volumes and were generically termed SBU's for Self balancing unicycles. Productions runs were small as were the companies that made them.
There is now a swathe of large mostly Chinese manufacturers mass producing on modern assembly lines devices but mostly without anything to sit on. You just stand on flat plates where pedals would otherwise be. They can be had for just a few hundred Australian dollars online.
However on electric (as for traditional) unicycles, a fair bit of torque is required in order to keep the wheel under the rider. e-Unicycles start at around a kW. As a result none are yet legal on Australian roads and paths though I have never heard of anyone being approached by police. Some day the regs will catch up.