It employs hub-motors, whereby each wheel is effectively a motor, and so it would not be practical to "buddy up" pairs of motors.
Which begs the question: why go with 8 wheels instead of 4?/shrugs... perhaps something as mundane as availability or the size of hub-motor required to achieve their performance aims, or perhaps the total amount of torque they require to achieve their aims can't be effectively delivered across 4 tyre-shod wheels (particularly starting from rest, given the torque characteristics of an electric motor).
Which begs another question? How did they come to the conclusion that an 8-wheeled monster doing 400km/hr would make an impact on a gasoline car-dependent world?
Something like Ford's Th!nk might have made an impact, if they'd allowed it to. Of course, the fact that it may have made an impact could very well be the reason Ford killed it off.
Because I can refill my hybrid once a month, for $30, and not have my car be useless for 10 hours.
If you are filling your hybrid once a month, or approximately 600 miles, you are averaging about 20 miles a day... which translates to 1 or 2 hours of charge for a typical EV.
If your car can't be "useless" for 1 or 2 hours a day, then stick with your hybrid. But you're missing out:-)
Why on earth would anyone use a car that was out of commision for 10 hours, when one could go refill their hybrid in less than 5 minutes?
Why on earth would anyone use a car that requires them to refill for gas every week, when one could simply plug in their Electric Vehicle while they sleep?
I know why! GM doesn't sell the other kind!
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Ugh, sorry. Misread your previous post.
/shrugs... perhaps something as mundane as availability or the size of hub-motor required to achieve their performance aims, or perhaps the total amount of torque they require to achieve their aims can't be effectively delivered across 4 tyre-shod wheels (particularly starting from rest, given the torque characteristics of an electric motor).
It employs hub-motors, whereby each wheel is effectively a motor, and so it would not be practical to "buddy up" pairs of motors.
Which begs the question: why go with 8 wheels instead of 4?
Which begs another question? How did they come to the conclusion that an 8-wheeled monster doing 400km/hr would make an impact on a gasoline car-dependent world?
Something like Ford's Th!nk might have made an impact, if they'd allowed it to. Of course, the fact that it may have made an impact could very well be the reason Ford killed it off.
Hmm that's a possible explanation but why couldn't they just have connected to motors to one wheel? Erm, you sure you meant *one* wheel? ;-)
Because I can refill my hybrid once a month, for $30, and not have my car be useless for 10 hours.
:-)
If you are filling your hybrid once a month, or approximately 600 miles, you are averaging about 20 miles a day... which translates to 1 or 2 hours of charge for a typical EV.
If your car can't be "useless" for 1 or 2 hours a day, then stick with your hybrid. But you're missing out
Why on earth would anyone use a car that was out of commision for 10 hours, when one could go refill their hybrid in less than 5 minutes? Why on earth would anyone use a car that requires them to refill for gas every week, when one could simply plug in their Electric Vehicle while they sleep? I know why! GM doesn't sell the other kind!
would have a whole new meaning...
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