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If you run the motor inline with the engine with a clutch between, you could probably ditch the starter as well. Save a little weight, but you'd lose a little redundancy in case of motor system failure. Could you then, too, if using an A/C motor, use it as an alternator while off throttle or when using the ICE?
Allch Chcar, it's totally off topic, but the idea for a manually operated CVT is to replicate the feel of a variable pitch prop on a 3-wheel tadpole vehicle that resembles a Gee Bee R1 fuselage with a Focke Wulf 190 canopy powered by a 7-cylinder radial engine under a NACA cowl. I thought it would be fun and efficiency and practicality have little to do with the design, but the 20k+ for the engine alone permanently shelves that idea. Even if I had that cash, I'd rather give it away. Maybe.
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