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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I tried to dig some. Looks like the only vehicles hub motors are really used in are bikes, very slow moving very large machinery and concept cars.
If they are used in a car application, they still don't appear to last very long.
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This is not a hub motor, but it looks very interesting ... and argues against what Lightyear are doing.
Story
https://newatlas.com/ree-modular-mob...83fd6-90241222
Reference
https://ree.auto/technology/
I like that you can configure as many wheels on the vehicle as you like. .. And the vehicle itself only needs to supply battery power, a speed reference, and a direction signal to the wheels. It looks like the speed can be different for each wheel to accomplish skid-steer, not that you'd likely want to.
I expect that the wheel modular subsystem is going to cost quite a bit. But changing out a wheel module with a new one, then running diagnostics on a test bench ... sounds pretty good!
Perhaps I'm reading more into the data than there is ... I tend to assume that others implement technology similar to how I would implement it .. and I project from there
