aairfccha wrote:Imaginos1892 wrote:How about a 40 HP 'pancake' type motor built into each wheel hub? Reduce the whole drive train to four moving parts!
Adding quite a bit of unsprung mass, possibly running into packaging issues because you still need some place to put brakes and you need to keep the motors cooled.
Oh, and they apparently come with a bit of a price tag attached.
The cost may be defrayed in the gas savings minus the cost to charge over the life of the car. There is also the piece of mind of going green, and not dying of CO poisoning. There is also a tax break up to $7500 for going green. Not to mention the piece of mind which comes from no longer being dependent on surviving any future gas wars.
My friend seems to think the two cars would pay for themselves over the four year duration of not having to feed the gas demand of two teenage daughters in college with two gas vehicles. LOL