• @[email protected]
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    -310 months ago

    I’ll never understand why there’s a transmission in a fully electric. Put four pancake motors at the wheels. Easier to cool, smaller motors, redundant power.

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      510 months ago

      Transmission isn’t for low end but high end rpm. 4 separate motors doesn’t help if the motor can’t spin fast enough.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        There’s no way a typical BLDC/ACIM can’t spin at the tire’s RPM. If you’ve got a 16” tire then at 100mph you’re spinning at roughly 1000rpm; these motors typically spin 3.5x that fast.