Man who bought electric boat from China for $1,000 completely transformed it by upgrading it himself

This guy bought a $1,000 electric boat from China and upgraded it by himself.

The result is impressive.

With a few changes, he turned it a cheap and tragic boat into a reasonably well-made leisure watercraft.

What’s more, he did it all by himself.

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Can you use a $1,000 electric boat from China every day?

The ‘experiment’ – if we want to call it that – was conducted by Micah Toll, the guy behind the EbikeSchool.com YouTube channel.

He bought the cheap boat for just $1,000 from China, and upgraded to make it faster, more reliable and more comfortable.

He started by modifying the motor shaft and the rudder system to improve stability.

He also repainted it, fixed the roof, and renamed it.

Now he calls the boat the ‘Sunny Side Up’, partly because it has solar panels on the roof, and partly because the boat is yellow, kind of like the color of a sunny side up egg.

You wouldn’t take it to a regatta, but it looks reasonably good and fun for just $1,000.

When buying cheap vehicles from China goes well

Toll had already done something similar when he bought a cheap truck from China.

He used it for 18 months and was surprised to find out it performed quite well for a relatively long time.

It doesn’t always work that way, though.

Not long ago, we bought a fake Range Rover from AliBaba and it was…different.

It looked reasonably close to the real thing, but only if you looked at it from (very) far away.

The unboxing experience was fun, but the car wasn’t great.

Apart from everything else, it was way too slow.

We drag raced it against a real Range Rover and it lost even against the real Range Rover going in reverse.