Assembly, R&D cost, shipping
Being first to have a board that no one else in the entire market can touch in terms of features
2wd is kind of crazy for this price though I will say
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Maybe 2WD is by design for less failures or other reasons? 4WD isnât âalways betterâ just because itâs more expensive.
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Yeah That makes sense but as a company I feel that you shouldnât make your customer pay for innovation
Lower prices=more sales
Unless shit donât sell if course lol
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as someone with a Samsung 50e 4wd board - you donât REALLY need 4wd for that amount of amps its capable of. its just nice to have slightly more tq. / cooler running temp
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I donât think that this view is validated on such a niche
Kaly isnât a âCompanyâ in the traditional sense, while I donât know exactly how much of his development he did himself, it is a valid way to absorb some of the development cost. I donât know if he is ever going for volume. His current offerings were already extremely expensive
If his stuff is going to sell anyway, maybe he doesnât want more sales. More sales means more customer service and could cause lower quality.
Anyway from me itâs all just hearsay from an engineerâs pov. Iâm not buying one, nor do I currently own any Kaly because I want to own a nice car lmao
They are very cool though and the fact that he has custom carbon fiber decks, gear drives, an ESC, and everything is pretty neat
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You have a website to sell your product, you offer warranty and customer service, you produce and keep stock on pretty much everything you sell and most likely have an employee or two laying around 
That to me sounds like you own a company lol
Now tell me. Me as a customer. Why should I be the one funding the time for you to perfect the product you sell? It doesnât seem fair to me
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I donât think he has an actual employee, he said itâs all himself and he has a friend help him when the intake of orders is absurd or he falls behind
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I certainly hope they thoroughly tested their ESC with this huge battery 
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Yeah I get what youâre saying, it all make sense.
I mean the simple answer is donât buy it I guess, itâs up to the company owner to say why or why not he charges the price that he does. If none of them sell, I guess that would be the people saying theyâre too expensive.
This is what I thought too. Which makes sense to me why he wouldnât want 1000âs of orders coming in
Again just hearsay from my but I feel like both opinions are valid
What we are seeing here from Kaly is innovation though, that most âlargeâ Esk8 companies arenât doing much of
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just realized though this battery only puts out 80amps which really isnt enough to justify 4wd
Seems like every company includes R&D in there prices (those that creates things, of course)
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His shit is too expensive and he shouldnât make the first batch of dumbasses pay for testing and product development
Thatâs how Iâd like to close my argument 
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80 amps at 20s 
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It might be less R&D cost in the traditional sense too, I imagine his R&D cost is partly the cost of getting prototypes and buying things to test, getting one-off CNC parts made, etc.
Usually some R&D is a tax write off though, so IDK
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If it were me Iâd price the first ones cheaper, so people buy more at the start knowing that the price will go up after a set amount of time.
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yep but still 20amps per motor when these are prob capable of 50amps each is a bit stupid
the motors wont be maximising their output in the first place
Exactly that 
Remember when Lacroix lunched the prototipo deck
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That would make sense too, I wonder how long each one takes to put together though. Huge influx at the beginning could cause big delay in actually shipping the first ones
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not that many more KW that current high amp 12s set ups⌠unless Iâm missing something. cooler running for sure.
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idk 1600w out of the battery is a lot lol
Thatâs 133a continuous on 12s, Iâm sure some people here could pull that, maybe.
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