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Originally Posted by SByer
Hub motors: failure for anything beyond a NEV.
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oha.
Hub / in wheel motors where used in ultra quite huge postage parcel busses in the night In the 50th...
They worked perfect under even the most harsh weather conditions.
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Originally Posted by SByer
Unsprung weight is the enemy of handling,
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True (partially) for a dedicated extreme race car but not for a car out on the US streets where even on highways 90 miles maximum are law.
Anyhow - the unspung masses make more good then bad as the hub motors are mounted within all 4 tires, equals a constant 4 wheel drive (nowadays option in the most dedicated sports car), and give therefore excellent handling.
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Originally Posted by SByer
shaking a motor around is the enemy of making it efficient.
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Not quite - there is no motor so to speak but a canned rotor.
Every heavy stapler in a warehouse has a in wheel motor since Frank Sinatra was in school - so technology is everywhere well understood (not at Telsa but thats another story) did you know?
Furthermore - working rotors where / are heavily vibrated in every airplane and Amtrack since centuries