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freebeard · 04-22-2019, 12:28 PM

My own EV conversion is stalled out, but I have a Lexus electric axle from an LX400h.

98lbs, 68hp, single speed 10,000RPM. With a single speed, you want twice the gas engine's power (vs 36hp) and fat cables for starting up. Toyota HSD technology. No clutches to burn out from the microsecond shock loads.

If I were starting today, I'd look for the rear axle from a newer RAV4. It has twin motors and the differential in software, important to me since I spun out on black ice.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,992 Thanks: 8,226 Thanked 9,000 Times in 7,434 Posts	My own EV conversion is stalled out, but I have a Lexus electric axle from an LX400h. 98lbs, 68hp, single speed 10,000RPM. With a single speed, you want twice the gas engine's power (vs 36hp) and fat cables for starting up. Toyota HSD technology. No clutches to burn out from the microsecond shock loads. If I were starting today, I'd look for the rear axle from a newer RAV4. It has twin motors and the differential in software, important to me since I spun out on black ice. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder