Went in expecting the board to cost around $200-400, came out extremely disappointed when I saw the preorder was around $2000.<p>Product looks awesome but not so much at that price point. How much do they actually expect to sell?
>One caveat is the board can’t engage regenerative braking when it’s fully charged. [...] I’m not sure why the board can’t just continue braking without the regen.<p>The power generated by braking has to go somewhere. If not to the battery, it would have to be shunted to a big resister array, and wind up as waste heat that might require cooling fins. This would add weight and cost.<p>I remember riding a metro car with regenerative braking that dumped the power to a resistive array on the roof that made a kind of buzzing noise when braking.