Gas powered engine horsepower equivalent to electrical motor horsepower?

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by KarenH

By the way, I've seen a guy zipping along the Strand in Manhattan Beach on a gas-powered SKATEBOARD. He has a hand-held control (probably the throttle) connected to the board by some type of cable. The little fuel tank is located behind the rear truck. I'm not sure such a device is legal on the Strand, though...

Gas powered skateboards go back into the sixties. You see them in several movies of the period. I think I remember one in "On Any Sunday" a doc with Steve McQueen. I have heard that many places outlawed them since they do not have deadman switches or brakes.