• anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca
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    10 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.

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      10 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.

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        10 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.