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Originally Posted by Cobb
The problem was it uses 650 volts vs the 288 volts that the prius uses and in order to get that voltage you need a lot of damn batteries or some type of voltage doubler or tripler.
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That's the question that drove the creation of the thread: over-volting = hot-rodding.
If anyone has one in a running vehicle, I'd like to hear about it. Mine is on a shelf, while I educate myself about junkyard OEM chargers and inverters and DC-DC inverters
and heaters
and air conditioning pumps. Heated and cooled battery boxes. The list goes on and on.
What's your interest? This MGR is on the small side, probably suitable for a tricycle to Beetle sized car. If you haven't taken a plunge yet, by the end of this year your best drop-in solution for muscle cars or pickups or 50s land barges or motor homes will be the Tesla drivetrain.
Reasons? It's a similar configuration with a lateral MGR ahead of the axle line feeding a single speed drivetrain to a differential. Except the Telsa's inverter is integrated opposite the motor, and it is 3 feet wide and has 460-some horsepower. It can be controlled with CANbus messages except for the hardwired throttle and brake sensor. So P-R-N-D, creep and regen can all be dialed in with a $100 Arduino board.
In a few years it will be the go-to solution, like a small-block Chevy and Ford 9-inch rear end.