Hi Ryan and All, It'll be online at the NBC website or on the west coast,
in a few minutes at about 6:12 local time. It was just a few minutes after it
was shown that I posted and a lot of time it takes them a couple hours to get
them online.It was a good vid right talking up the autocycle and solar, until
the motors overheated at the end. Hard to post links here as restricted.Jerry
Dycus
On Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 05:54:52 PM PDT, Ryan Fulcher via EV
<ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
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
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