On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 19:25, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> If memory serves, Lynch and some friends formed Lemco to manufacture the > motors in (I think) the 1990s. I got the impression that they were nearly > hand-built in the early years. They've always essentially been hand built. Cedric fell out with the Lynch Motor Company (Lynch Motors / LMC), with whom he was only even an employee. They'd make exaggerated claims about the performance of the motor, like peak power ratings that were only available for a few seconds. That led to the formation of Lemco, who were later bought by their biggest customer, ASMO karts. Again Cedric was only an employee and his face didn't fit well with the new management. He won an industrial tribunal for 'constructive dismissal' and the parent company put the motor department into receivership in order to avoid paying him the compensation, buying back the business from the receiver soon after. > In the early 2000s Cedric Lynch was connected to (or perhaps co-founded?) > Agni Motors. AGNI was set up by Cedric's oldest friend, Arvind Rabaddia, with most of the production being done in India, where Arvind has family connections. AGNI of course won the inaugural EV race at the Isle of Mann TT. Duke video has a DVD that's well worth watching; https://www.dukevideo.com/prd1773/Charge-DVD > Agni reportedly merged with another company to become Saietta Group. AGNI have indeed merged with Saietta and Arvind and Cedric currently work there. Last year I was asked to visit them on Cedric's recommendation and was offered some contract work. I can't say much as I'm bound by a non disclosure agreement. I never took up the offerof work. I wouldn't have been able to cope with the daily commute as I was still recovering from a pretty serious motorcycle crash ( https://youtu.be/Fn2DZrfncT0 ) and I don't think they would have paid a sensible daily rate. > Saietta also manufacture e-motorcycles. I think they build a total of three examples of that hunch fronted £45,000 monstrosity, plus another 'race' bike. They still keep displaying the increasingly decrepit bikes at Industry events like CENEX LCV. > According to a note at the link Paul posted, Lynch has tried to get Saietta > to commercialize his hyper-efficient EV, but they've shown zero interest. Part of the deal with Cedric joining Saietta was that they'd do so, but it won't happen. The company follows a familiar pattern of obtaining grant money, seend funding and venture capital without really producing much. They spent something like £1.4million developing a controller for Cedric's motor. It has a CAN bus interface that can only be used to change parameters and not to interface it to, for example, a BMS. They're now dropping manufacture of the brushed motor and already do not supply replacement brushes. They have a brushless motor in the same form factor, but I'm not sure just how close it is to reality. -- Paul Compton www.morini-mania.co.uk www.paulcompton.co.uk (YouTube channel) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
