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Old 11-11-2018, 10:35 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by seifrob View Post
Maybe someone will chime in, i cannot find the link- there was some start-up company develoing a kind of commuter, maybe evet trike, but never finished. Their only visible achievement was in-wheel suspension of some kind. That might help.
Perhaps you're thinking of Edison2. They developed a super lightweight gasoline powered car to win an X prize, and they spun off another company to pursue in wheel suspension, but that appears to have been a flop.

In wheel suspension seems to be as good an idea as in wheel motors, which is to say not very, and in limited applications.
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