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What ever happened to the street legal Sunswift?
http://sunswift.com/eve.html
Supposedly was going to have a street legal car by the end of 2015.
What ever happened? They won a race and then???
I would love to buy one of their hub motors.
Ah well
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03-27-2016, 11:07 PM
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Link didn't work for me.
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03-27-2016, 11:35 PM
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03-28-2016, 07:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rmay635703
http://sunswift.com/eve.html
Supposedly was going to have a street legal car by the end of 2015.
What ever happened? They won a race and then???
I would love to buy one of their hub motors.
Ah well
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Ask them.
contact@sunswift.unsw.edu.au
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03-29-2016, 10:25 PM
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At $500,000 per car and a top speed of 45 mph the market is limited. Find out who sold them their motor and compare that to the Agni motor.
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03-30-2016, 08:51 AM
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That's like saying the Elio cars are 15 mil each, you could build one in your garage for under $1000
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03-31-2016, 10:53 AM
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Building a street legal car will likely cost $10,000 or more. You could build an e-bike for $1000. Elio is still technically a motorcycle and would realistically sell for $16,000. For a prototype race vehicle $500,000 is fairly cheap. To build a production solar vehicle with a carbon fiber chassis and sun tracking the price might drop to $250,000. How much sunshine do you get in Wisconsin? Figure on some kind of heater/defroster system too.
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03-31-2016, 12:26 PM
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My only interest was in the discussion of them using hub motors, I did not see any technical specs afterword to see how they faired or where they got them from.
Hub motors today are a unicorn but like hydrogen might someday become less of one.
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03-31-2016, 05:05 PM
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Hub motors for industrial and automotive applications have been around for decades. Check for industrial suppliers.
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03-31-2016, 09:07 PM
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Quote:
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Hub motors for industrial and automotive applications have been around for decades. Check for industrial suppliers.
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Just because something exists doesn't mean its usable out in the real world.
The reliability and torque of the off the shelf on even an 1800lb car is very very questionable, as of yet I know of only one person to sucessfully use a hub motor and it was not used as intended to be made reliable.
Mira-Inboard Hub Motors - DIY Electric Car Forums
Now if I wanted to use it once and toss it out thats another thing. 
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