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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
No highway driven hub motor has been able to outlast a set of tires.
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Why?
I don't know much about hub motors--and I remember the project from whatever college where they were trying to make a retrofit kit to put hub motors on the rear axles of smaller cars (replacing drum brakes) to make any vehicle into a hybrid. You're saying the motors wear out within like 30,000-40,000 miles?
I always thought it was a genius idea and I even went so far as to contact the college in question at the time to ask them about it for my Yaris.
But if the motors wear out super quick I guess the whole thing is bogus. Is this an engineering problem, IE make a better hub motor, or something to do with the design that makes them prone to failure?