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NADA, Ford and Shell lobby to outlaw it in the U.S. in 3… 2…
Why bother with all that when you can just buy the patent?
Wheel spacers are already illegal, atleast in Finland
I wish they were in the US. People raise their trucks up a foot or two dand set the wheels out wide (wider than fenders is illegal, but have never seen enforced). They usually change the wheels for wider tires, but adding wheel spacers is common.
That looks very familiar. I saw something similar advertised in a Popular Mechanics. I don’t remember whether it was an article or an ad, but it was there.
Ooh I would love to do this with my car and have a hybrid awd
It sounds like a hoax… How can such a small thing pull a 1,5 Tons vehicule ? And why is there so few data about this ? At the same time I really want to try this, please let this be real!
New EV supercars are using similar axial flux motors. I was hoping someone would come up with this because spinning the axles directly with wheel mounted motors seems like a much easier retrofit than replacing the engine and gear box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTi2Z_X5Kw
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If y’all remember that Kia Soul that got launched by a wheel, it’s a more dramatic example but a potential downside to what amounts to a spacer. It’s certainly a cool proof-of-concept but I can’t see it taking off since I doubt it’ll be as efficient as a factory hybrid and the upfront cost, labor, troubleshooting, explaining it to a mechanic will eat fuel savings.
Conversion to a hybrid seems more complicated, not less.
They’re adding a bunch of weight to the rear wheels - I’m sure that’s going to effect things? How does it trade-off with the ICE smoothly? How much per model customization is needed?
It’s an interesting idea - but there are a lot of details being left out…
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I drive an '07 ICE pickup. Would adding a battery / motors to it for the remaining 5ish years of its life really be worth the impact to the environment for those batteries just to save a bit of fuel over that time period?
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This guy’s probably going to mysteriously disappear. Big oil is coming for you buddy…
Yeah. Okay.
