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Re:The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of ... by zaarn on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:46AM (#19634425)
There are some companies working on "1 motor 1 wheel", it's still very early on though...
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Re:The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of ... by arethuza on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:54AM (#19634522)
Doesn't that cause problems with relatively high unsprung mass - which causes its own problems?
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Re:The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of ... by tomatotomato37 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:21AM (#19634772)
Usually the motors are still mounted to the chassis with some type of halfshaft interface in those cars rather than being directly mounted to try wheels; there's just more of them
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Re:The Twilight of Combustion Comes for Germany's Empire of ... by analognoise on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:56AM (#19634546)
The first "1 motor 1 wheel" design I can think of is from 1904: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche

So it isn't THAT early, if you add in 115 years of development.

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