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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
Va Tech calculated my in wheel drive produced 380 pounds feet of torque at 0 RPM.
Per wheel at 99% efficiency at 0 RPM. Your motor can't touch that or regenerate any significant amount of energy.
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Mech
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380ftlbs at 0 RPM = 0% efficiency, and without proper current limiting capabilities you are going to burn up your motor/controller/batteries/wiring.
My T-case is already dealing with over 700ftlbs on the input shaft and once I put the new transmission in it with a 6+:0 first gear it will have over 1300ftlbs at the input. There are others putting 2-3000ftlbs through the same gearbox without problems.
Edit to add: There are quite a few off roaders that are interested in the idea of an electric conversion because of the low RPM torque they put out.