well I hope this settles in still. the v1 plutonium feels like it has unusually little drag, I rode it a lot, if the davega is to be trusted 3000+km (I had to replace it once which from what I remember reset the total km recorded, so I might have done 5000km already on this). all the bearings are rather loud (lost their oils?) but they give surprisingly little resistance. all I want to know is if this is the reason, and that even the free roll resistance of motors becomes less over time. just did a test today with this spot not far from home where I keep watching the stats, and it showed 10.2wh/km with the v1 today. I can’t get below 15wh/km with the v2 yet. also, the v2 clearly rolls down small declines slower or not at all (without throttle) than all my other boards, and the v1 is really close to a belt-driven 105mm-thane evolve gtx, or a cloudwheel (120mm) direct-drive onsra blackcarve2 - so the real question is: can excessive use really bring down the free roll resostance of a quad driven board from 17-20wh/km (when new) to about 10wh/km? if so, what a waste on behalf of new boards, what a waste of energy. with my oldie but goldie 4wd v1 (on a deteriorating battery) I can currently get exactly as far as with a brand new 2wd plutonium v2, which has 30+% bigger battery, this just feels wrong and I’d love some reasonable explanations to this. so currently there is little reason to take the v2 over the v1 as the v1 gets me just as far and charges a lot quicker with the same 10A charger, and on the few stretched inclines on my trips, the v1 does never overheat, the v2 does, and thus throttles and I need to help by kickpushing. so again I feel like something is off here. or the oils in the bearings really cause this much drag. cause frankly, there are no more oils in the bearings (be it motor or wheels) of my v1, as I put it through hell and back, and it held up pretty nicely, except for the geardrive mounts which got loose over time. if you don’t believe me, I’ll show you a slight decline on a road, starting on the same patch, with 0 impulse in any direction, the v1 will start accelerating (albeit slowly) with no throttle applied and finish the whole stretch (about 400m) and the v2 will barely accelerate and stop at a rough patch in the middle at 150m or something. I mean I can live with this if I know why it’s happening, and if you read my first post, I speculate that when the v1 was new, I had exactly the same behaviour and drag, but I thought this was normal. guess it all depends on what we accept as normal, don’t we? 
but then again: this time I opened the geardrives, and noticed that all the drag comes from the motor itself, moving it from one position to the next (not sure how to call this, stator displacement or something) there is lots of resistance, as if this was a super big motor, and in fact it is rather big, isn’t it - so is the answer my motors are so big, and this is normal for those? I remember vaguely that a guy I know switched motors on an evolve, what he ended up with was more motor drag as the new ones would not idle anymore - oh, idle what? this makes me wonder if there is an ESC setting (metr setting) for idle behaviour, this setting might have gotten botched along with a few other settings in my case, which we have seen in this threat: stationary (non moving) start just makes the board jerk around - so anyone, what do I need to look for? it really seems like the esc is braking or applying some voltage which prevents free rotation of the motors when no throttle is applied.