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But why would 4 motors be superior to 2 motors with electronically-controlled differentials? The difference in driveshaft lengths has got to be minimal. Are the differentials significantly slower to allocate torque? I just don't see big benefits here. For the record, the reason *not* to have...

stopcrazypp, You've apparently been doing some real "fuzzy math" in this thread. It leads to this quote being very, very bogus: First off, where did you get this 321Whr/mi number? The pack is 53kWhr. It goes 221 miles. Divide: 239.8Whr/mi. Let's use the Volt numbers, based on 233Whr/mi...

Much ado about nothing Wow. I'm continually impressed by how many people seem to care about this. Let me ask the most basic question: "why should we be comparing grid electricity to gasoline on a straight-up energy content basis anyway?" The sources of energy are so different that comparing...

so? I don't get it. What's the big deal here? A rich guy is paying for a high-performance EV conversion in a fancy sports car...it's been done lots of times. He's in this video describing "the challenge" like he's off intrepidly breaking new ground...maybe he should check the EV album at...

I'm not so sure about that...one tends to mitigate the damage in a bicycle or motorcycle crash by dismounting, which doesn't seem to be an option here. It might be more survivable when hit by a car, but in most of the single-vehicle failure modes it seems like it could be worse...

Hehe. Well, adding two gyroscopes means that within the operational range (that is to say, as long as you don't lean so far in one direction that the motor can't keep up) this craft is as stable as computer control can make it. But more importantly, I don't think anybody is envisioning this on...

Well, they claim to be considering the whole production chain's emissions. The part I don't like is that they aren't specifying the driving conditions or the specs of the plugin hybrid. How many miles are being driven? What's the electric range? If they used the Volt's range and an average daily...

Yeah, the military really seems to have a thing for series hybrids these days. Something about sneaking up on people... I saw this one a while back, seems like Quantum Tech is involved? And here's a rather boneheaded ("developing hybrid electric engines" etc.) AP article from a couple years...

Yeah, I agree, 3 models seems like the hot ticket if they can do it. And 70 miles would be perfectly wonderful for me...my current EV only does 30 (on a good day). I'd still have to keep my ICE beater around, but then what's new? I'd almost never drive it. I'll bet they go for 100 mile range...

Kardax and doug, sure, I follow the expense and range problem. But it's a problem whose solution lies in parts of the vehicle that both models (EV and REEV) will share anyway. They are still designing the REEV to be as efficient as they can make it while keeping expenses down. So they have to do...

I'm not sure whether to say there's anything improper going on here. Certainly there's nothing surprising. This guys predecessor was a VP at Toyota while she was on the air board, and before her they had GM's assistant director of auto-emissions control. I kind of feel like this position is...

Pretty sure "courtster" is just a poor attempt at poking fun at the amount of litigation going on over at Tesla. Not really very funny at all. But then this whole report is kind of dodgy. It really doesn't explain the thrust of the suit at all, and kind of glosses over most of the background...

I guess I just don't follow the premise of this thread. Why is it such a hard job to build Whitestar without a generator? The pure BEV is a lot simpler...seems to me like it's a lot harder to build it with an ICE. Anyway, Tesla has said the BEV would likely come out before the REEV... Boy I...

Brent, it seems to me that the fraud and breech-of-contract parts of the suit are more important than the trade secrets. The breech-of-contract is certainly the easy sell among the claims...these guys took the money for design work and then used that work themselves on a competing product...

TEG, yeah I did a bit more reading on the Zenn/EEstor thing and finally saw that Feel Good was Zenn. Doh. And I'm certainly sensitive to the fact that EEstor has convinced some serious investors that its technology has potential :tongue: But on the other hand I would say that both VCs and...