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> Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 17:22:55 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Hub motors = Bad Idea in a highway capable car
> From: [email protected]
>
> Michael Ross wrote:
>>> Lots to like about this effort, and the video is easy to watch, and
>>> provocative in good ways. Bill D mentions unsprung weight. If you
>>> aren't a performance nut you can manage clunky handling. Bet those
>>> 4 motors aren't heavier that 4 steel truck wheels.
>
> I generally agree with Bill Dube', though perhaps not quite so
> forcefully. Wheel motors sound good on paper, and can be made to work in
> practice. But they have so many "feathers on the scale" against them
> that they haven't proven to be practical (at least, so far).
well, i usually agree on this, but it is
proven here in Sweden for several years in Artic climate
with the ultrafast-charging pure EV-citybus lines
Charges in a few minutes, (650 kwh chargers), pantograph-style at end of the
line-stop
the pack is only about 30kwh) about 1000 hp in the 18 meter bus, 4 wheel
drive,
(front steeringwheels is not driven)
/John
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