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I've given thought to this idea. I think a good way to do it would be to add a small electric rear drive to a small fwd manual trans car. Use a MT car because it can be placed in neutral to run in EV only mode. Also make it manual steering/brakes. Use the rear ends out of any small old 4x4 such as the old honda wagons along with a simple, small fork lift motor. Not sure if this would do much in the regen area, but it would greatly improve efficiency in stop and go urban commutes. I would really like to see such a system added to a first gen insight that could be tied into the battery pack. I would make such a system very light weight with no more than a 10 hp motor. It would be strictly for EV only stop and go/low speed driving. Stop and go is where the first gen insight fails due to its inability to move without its ICE. I think honda should have looked into adding another clutch on the other side of its motor to allow an EV only mode.
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