Jordan wrote:
On 3/19/2011 9:27 PM, azotic wrote:

http://xlhybrids.com/products/conversion

Why are there so many designs with motors mounted so as to be unsprung?
It's not a good idea, if you want a nice ride and good handling.
Electric motors of real power are heavy.
Putting them in the wheels themselves is even dumber, although it seems
to be a popular choice.

How about mounting them on some sort of gimbal, or even a pivot, with
axles with CV joints at the wheels? Admittedly, et's a lot of hardware,
but as you said, at least they'd be on the sprung side.

What we really need is room-temperature[1] superconductors. :-)

Cheers!
Rich
[1] or preferably, something good for maybe 150 F - it'd be terribly
inconvenient to be half-way across the desert and have your motors
suddenly quench!