Stanford grad and robotics engineer Sanjay Dastoor didn’t grow up skateboarding, but he now runs Boosted Boards, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that aims to build the world’s lightest electric vehicles.  While studying engineering at Stanford, Dastoor and friends found themselves talking about how to get around campus faster. Their solution was an electric longboard.  Soon after, Dastoor co-founded Boosted, and his team raised nearly half a million in crowdsourced funding through Kickstarter. During the manufacturing process, however, the company hit several road blocks, including pricing the product too low.  Dastoor also participated in the Y Combinator and StartX accelerator programs and kept refining Boosted Boards’s … Continue reading This Longboard Company Is Rethinking Electric Vehicles