@Daaavy To preserve the battery's capacity, most battery nerds recommend avoiding a full 100% charge every time, and instead target like 80-95%, depending on how paranoid we want to be. Once every 5-10 rides, I charge all the way to green light and leave it on the charger a while, to make sure the cells are balanced.

Thanks, it is nice to know this is typical. I guess their formula for calculating % full is a little off at the top end.

This has all been suggested many time before. I'll probably sound like a broken record but I don't care: riding technique and foot position are sufficient to avoid most nosedives, rather than trying to make the board smarter (which actually adds software complexity that makes the board less awesome).

1. Set your feet farther back, so your front foot's heel is closer by the wheel, and your rear foot is almost at the back edge.
2. Go more slowly up hills
3. do a half-hop aka "get light" when you go over a pothole or a large bump

I used to nosedive all the time, I used to blame the board and it's design. Then I started doing these 3 things ^^^ and realized I'd be fine.

There is no reason you ever need to drain a LiPo below 50% if you don't want to. Draining rechargeable batteries to near zero hasn't been helpful since the ancient times of NiMh batteries.

If you want to be paranoid, it may be good to avoid charging to 100% all the time. If you find yourself using only 30% capacity you could try to keep your battery in the 50-80% charge range, for the sake of longevity.

Rather than state of charge I focus more on temperature extremes, especially heat - a onewheel sitting in the sun on a summer day can really start to bake and batteries degrade much more quickly in extreme heat regardless of their state of charge.

I don't ride very hard or do many curb drops (maybe one per week) but Float plates are pretty much mandatory on the XR IMO because the design of the XR bumpers (lower clearance) causes them to wear out 3x faster than the stock bumpers on my Plus. Basically never need to replace the bumpers if you have float plates because those make contact first. They will also reduce frame rail scratches and dents by at least 50%

If I fully change my board until the charger light goes green, then wait a few minutes and turn on the board it NEVER reads 63.0v like I would expect. It will at like 62.5 and slowly dropping. Next day it will be more like 61.5, still without any usage....

Is this normal?

Same happened to me. My guess is this happens due to heat. When I re-gripped my sensor side I handled removal by leaving it in the sun for 20 minutes on a hot day, which was almost too much - the top layer of the plastic sensor sandwich also started to peel in a couple spots.

I used sharp, fine point scissors to trim the edges that began to overhang due to slippage.

@jackiemoon I just finished learning to ride goofy well, and if I switch sides every few miles I can easily outlast the XR battery 😎 also my left knee feels better.

I live on steep hills so I don’t get more than 14-15 miles from a change, but with my charge and ride setup I have 5 extra amp-hours so there’s still no such thing as range anxiety ;)

@clevemont I noticed something...
i ride on many residential streets that slope down from the middle, and most of the uneven wear I experience is due to that slope- switching to goofy stance didn’t make a difference. Tire remounts aren’t super fun either tbh, but I’ve improved the evenness of the wear by riding more often on the left side of low-traffic residential streets (where most of my riding happens)

Pretty much every new version is just a few minor upgrades. I think we can expect more of the same, but my gut says the most likely next move product-wise is offering more customization of footpads/frame rail colors/etc. They have a lot to benefit from keeping the hardware consistent and not introducing new manufacturing and service complexity.