Haha I was kinda right and almost completely wrong. Lots of juicy info but not quite as specific as you asked.
Are you planning on using VESC, or do you have something more interesting planned?
You are correct
In Carvons case Some of that has to do with the eprm limit in the vesc and can cause a DRV failure
Moving up in voltage won’t kill the motor
It will make the motor hit that limit and what use is that to anyone
So from what I understand would need a lower kv motor than what is used now to offset a higher voltage or a vesc with a higher limit 
At the beginning I definitely will use vesc as learning curve for RWD, but going for AWD will require 240A out of battery pack, which makes:
- cabling cumbersome
- fusing strategy obscure
- any bms way over-engineered
- to many cells in parallel for my liking (if one cell fails you end up with rest of parallel setup dumping power into it).
It’s a third time I’ve writing this god damn reply … going from meeting to a f@#%$^@# meeting 
Anyway my plan was to start with 12S graphen lipo for power stability and grow from there. So in the future I might go for higher voltage pack - but that will cause need for different esc. So I want to future proof the setup, and since those motors seem to have a more beefy shafts (no innuendo here) - it looks like a reasonable investment.
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I’m with you on most of above, but changing over to graphene only solves the “too many cells” problem? Maybe fusing if you were thinking cell-level. Ar cables if you’re building a flexy setup.
Have you seen this?
Oh and if this is your first ride, I’ve found that even overbuilt, on e-boards things wear out and fail with alarming speed. I’m pretty sure it’s not just me (NYC commuter). It’s not often brought up directly, but everyone seems to have a pile of broken parts.
The v3/v4 design looks to address many many issues (beefy shafts lol), but, speaking from experience, I wouldn’t count on any e-board lasting forever.
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True, but: when I go for 65C graphens that theoretically can deplete them self in 55.3 seconds, then I will not get problems with cell temperatures, heat accumulation, issues with regen breaking peaking out voltages and them me trying to “run it out”.
about beefy shafts … sorry, but I was struggling for better term at that time, but I can surely compensate this with “larger rods” or “more girthy poles” 
(glad is made someone chuckle at least)
back to the subject, in terms of price and stuff breaking my grampa had a saying “everything cheap i more expensive in the long run”, which kinda makes sense, if you use hangers with flimsy shafts and you drive torque through those you may lose the wheel, then loose your teeth in the process … and last time I’ve checked implants are more expensive than most expensive e-skate motors 
So I understand that nothing lasts forever, I just want to minimise the failure rate on vital components (hence overkill batteries and “beefy shafts”)
ps. don’t get me started on C rating yes at 90% C rating may be true but when you get close to true 20% of SOC you can take C rating and divide by 10 easily - so as I said before bms should monitor cell voltages and give current limits to all the motors in setup rather than motors sensing the main bus voltage and users ending up with oscillation.
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@deucesdown & @tomtom13 let’s try to keep the geek talk on the other thread so people can follow along and apply it to thier builds 
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Any update on estimated delivery? Just checking in.
If you check on carvon Instagram , the speed drives r and XL are all ready with Jerry the motor part that is he’s waiting on the CNC’D trucks to come only thing that’s holding him back ,after they arrive still have to assemble them, 1-2 months to go before they start shipping them out
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Can you link to where he posts updates, too tired to search 
He post stuff on Instagram, but also check his Kickstarter he posted the updates https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/carvonllc/carvon-next-generation-electric-skateboards-longbo/posts on the category"updates " @scepterr
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Going by the last update there…all motors shipped in January?
Something like that or end of January, delays happen as I said he’s just waiting on the cnc trucks to come and the time to assemble the motors.
I’m in no particular rush just planning things out
Gonna be swimming in motors in February
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Cool, Thanks!
Just getting into esk8… looks like i just missed the hottest motor out there. ah well. Im going to ride something cheap and chinese in the meantime. I’ll catch the next wave.
These and the new hummies are the new heat around here
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From my (very recent!) research it looked that way. I think the direct drive concept is the engineering solution of the future. Seems like it would retain the best qualities of both outboards and in-wheel hubs. Im a big guy, but i live in houston where it is flat, so no crazy torque is really necessary so i was leaning towards hubs, but they all seem a little weak. Anyway, i bought a kickstarter board, ionboard x, to be able to skate around with my nephews since they also have boards until i build something. Its supposed to essentially be an improved meepo. Supposed to have 9 ply board. 2 x 500w hubs and 350Wh battery. The price was right… ill probably post a review when it arrives.
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Did anyone ever get an email after sending the PayPal payment?
Any info on when these are shipping out this month?
Are these going to be available again any time soon? Or does anyone in EU have an extra they would consider selling?