SUBSCRIBE to stay current on EV news ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com Ferdinand Porsche put wheel motors on a battery electric car in 1897. They built about 300 of them and there were 4WD & FWD versions. He also made a hybrid version. Amazing that 112 years later Wheel motors still aren’t in mass production. Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies and idling. Therefore, the potential to improve fuel efficiency with advanced technologies is enormous. With an Electric Car it costs just $1.00 per 100kms with MUCH more performance than with petrol at $20.00 per 100kms. Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens ecorner
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Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens ecorner
Posted on26 March 2010.
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all your eggs in one basket, idl this.
EV’s and plug-ins are finally coming to the states in 2010…Volt, Coda, and Leaf first….can’t wait to plug it into my homes solar system…
trrue, i agree, electric cars are already operational!!!! There is a company called Better Place and there cars are now fully working in Israel, Denmark and Australia and will so move world wide. It has a lot of cool features. Check there youtube channel out.
When???
I hope that goes to the market soon. Most people cannot afford gas. Getting costly.
yeah, this means “we have more work so you’ll give us more money”… then comes a stupid rock, fits correctly in the middle of this thing and boom! engine blown up!
German Hightech but greece say to us Nazi!!..(that was a another gerneration!!)..what has greece??…nothing!!!..you loser!!
This is such a fantastic video. I would love to own a car with electric motors placed in the wheels. 4 with good lift would be especially great!
Music sounds like the Terminator.
There’s an entire class of electric motor designed to run “submerged” under water.
It’s not that hard to water proof electric motors as standard industry practice is to vacuum resin impregnated all stator windings.
What happens when this motor tire goes through water?
A- why are you changing the suspension system completely? the existing one is fine and its been evolving for a long time, you’ll end up facing so many problems that are already solved in the old one.
B- Changing the break pads on this thing is gonna be a biiiitchh!!!
in one of my video posts, I think “It’s Getting Better,” there are pictures of my daughter riding in the second electric car I built. It ran very well, was a half of a golf cart drive train I litterally cut away from an old golf cart and bolted onto the rear of the car. Lasted for years using three regular 12 volt car batteies I charged by solar panels.
My first EV had used two expensive high torque electric motors, and was a total flop for numerous reasons.
hmm perhaps 4 wheel steering but people wouldn’t be used to that and they would crash lol
This looks wheely expensive. ;D
Makes me think of the little kids electric cars for some reason. Even though, they were basically junk with plastic gears.
Gotta wonder with so many sensitive parts they already put on cars that have malfunctions, no doubt this is due to crappy road conditions and bumps.
Along with brake dust from the rotors and semi metallic pads. Doing away with brake dust seems like a priority. Better smooth Road conditions isn’t likely very soon either.
super
This design could be used to create a very accurate speed control built into its power delivery system.
Best system so far.
problema desse carro é ao voltar ao estacionamento, ele estar sem pneus =)
I have no idea what all the skid/traction/resistance blab is about, but I think that Porsche putting electric motors on his cars in1897 is incredible and this current idea sounds brilliant.
As a very old car ‘nut’ allow me a few comments,,most people worry about heating EVs in very cold weather,,well when i used to drive large trucks back in the 80s a lot of trucks had catylistic cab heaters using diesel but having NO flame!! Shurely this old tech could be modified for heating the new EVs and save battery power on cold winter days to preserve the distance radius?? And why not have contactless induction chargers under the roads at traffic lights etc cost would be done wirelessly.
Yep.. with wheel motors used for regenerative braking the friction brakes can be completely deleted.
Have a look at some of the other ‘Wheel Motor’ videos on my channel for examples of this.
how about motor resistance for braking. I’m just asking cause it seems the least amount of systems in a car would make for the most reliable and light weight kind of car.
Like a bulldozer? It’s possible but tyre wear would be high.
The technique is called brake steer and is used in Electronic stability control (ESC) systems.
Wheel motors are well suited to ABS & ESC.
If there are four wheel motors on the vehicle or even just two would it be necessary to turn the wheels to steer at all? Couldn’t they just spin the wheels as different rates?