I presume that the two-speed transmission is the required HIGH/LOW gearing for off road vehicles, AKA Highway / Crawl gearing.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Rick Beebe via EV Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 11:42 AM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Red Auto-Tech aims Oz-built rugged electric-SUV r:120mi On 12/01/2015 01:00 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > On 1 Dec 2015 at 5:34, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > >> powered by ... four in-wheel motors, and a new two-speed transmission. > > Eh? Leaving aside the well known (though apparently not to these folks) > wheel motor problem of unsprung mass, why would they need a transmission > with wheel motors? I noticed that too. And an off-road vehicle is probably the worse place for heavy wheels. >> Van de Loo predicts funding will come from the private sector until >> the car maker is able to hold an initial public offering. > > Yeah, so have hundreds of other EV startups. Good luck with that. Agreed. >> ... range of over 120 miles ... base price of [US}$60,000 ... > > Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see a market for this EV. Probably not but lots of Australia has plenty of sunshine and a dearth of road. And gas is expensive. So it may have more appeal than most of us in the US think. But I think that price is probably a deal killer especially for something you're going to go trashing in the outback. --Rick _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
