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This is a very good looking project you have going! As far as the front-rear engine debate, it depends on many things as to the resulting handling. The design I am using will have the ICE engine mounted in front of the rear axle line, with the batteries set in two rows. One array will go across the car under the rear seat and the second will run forward between the seats, so the weight will be distributed evenly across the car and front to back. Front seat passengers can sit forward, with the foot well between the front wheels, as the original VW Bug was. On your 3d render it shows the tires very exposed, my aerodynamics expert I was working with, said it was much better to have the wheels inside the body, than outside. And the "very narrow" wheel and tire combination works well, only on "Very" light vehicles, as on the Solar Racers, unless you have some type of active camber system, which leans the wheels in while turning.
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