I would love to see that clip... But i have been unable to locate any such video. If you find a link to it online, or know which NBC station ran it, that would be great.
On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 5:34 PM jerry freedomev via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hi All, Just watching NBC Evening News tonight had the Aptera with > it's CEO? on and they went for a test ride. The problem was it couldn't > get up a hill I assume was a longer one, the motors overheated and had to > pull over to let them cool down. That is not good. Though maybe the > heavy aero wheel skirts are not helping either if they don't provide > airflow. This is a problem with hub motors as at such low RPM they have > to use massive amps which of course makes massive heat but I'd thought they > had worked that out. As I said my last post they need to go back to a > geared rear motor and get rid of the hub motors like they had when they > first designed it about 20 yrs ago. Even then they had problems with > motor overheating so they gave me a call since I was doing the FreedomEV at > the time, a similar EV but more conventional looking. Turned out they had > geared it too low and increasing the gearing from 4-1 to 7-1, solved it.If > I was them, I'd be making a backup plan of either front or rear geared > drives. Jerry Dycus > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230720/5c3d47bd/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230720/d09e4821/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
