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From: Bill Putney on 6 Jul 2007 22:05 Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote: > In article <468EE014.7080507(a)hotmail.com>, > Jeff <kidsdoc2000(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>>>>With those electric motors there to help with low end grunt and getting >>>>>the car moving, the engine can be tuned more specifically for running at >>>>>certain efficient speeds. >>>> >>>>I always thought electric motors would make AWD very simple. >>> >>>They do. Someone's doing that today. >> >>Who? Just curious. > > > I've been trying to remember. I saw a mention of it in Car and Driver > magazine, I believe. > This isn't 4WD, but it does 0-60 in 4 seconds, and uses Li-ion batteries: http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/specs.php Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')
From: Mike Marlow on 7 Jul 2007 01:02 "Elmo P. Shagnasty" <elmop(a)nastydesigns.com> wrote in message news:elmop-195D2C.18025406072007(a)nntp1.usenetserver.com... > Modern fluid drive automatic transmissions, especially from the likes of > Chrysler, are junk waiting to burst into pieces at any moment. > > Even Honda can't get them right. > You keep mentioning Honda's failures as if that is somehow meaningful. The rest of the industry has been buidling reliable automatic tansmissions for decades. Perhaps you have not been around long enough to understand that. Or perhaps you're simply enamored by Toyota's products. -- -Mike- mmarlowREMOVE(a)alltel.net
From: who on 7 Jul 2007 04:14 In article <9e9d3$468f1e73$471fb864$13468(a)ALLTEL.NET>, "Mike Marlow" <mmarlowREMOVE(a)alltel.net> wrote: > You keep mentioning Honda's failures as if that is somehow meaningful. The > rest of the industry has been buidling reliable automatic tansmissions for > decades. Perhaps you have not been around long enough to understand that. > Or perhaps you're simply enamored by Toyota's products. UGH! I and many others could tell you otherwise, but you wouldn't learn.
From: Bonehenge (B A R R Y) on 7 Jul 2007 06:14 On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:26:21 -0500, "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote: >Aren't those giant dump trucks used in open pit mines electrically driven >with a motor on each wheel? They are, as are mars rovers, battlebots, etc... Also. many locomotives and self-powered passenger cars (think subway or commuter rail) use one motor per axle. Adding a differential to a one motor per axle road vehicle doesn't seem that difficult.
From: Mike Marlow on 7 Jul 2007 06:57
"who" <i(a)notaspammer.net> wrote in message news:i-D89800.01144707072007(a)news.telus.net... > In article <9e9d3$468f1e73$471fb864$13468(a)ALLTEL.NET>, > "Mike Marlow" <mmarlowREMOVE(a)alltel.net> wrote: > >> You keep mentioning Honda's failures as if that is somehow meaningful. >> The >> rest of the industry has been buidling reliable automatic tansmissions >> for >> decades. Perhaps you have not been around long enough to understand >> that. >> Or perhaps you're simply enamored by Toyota's products. > > UGH! > I and many others could tell you otherwise, but you wouldn't learn. Quite correct - I and the rest of the world would not "learn" what you would like to tell. We prefer to acknowledge what the evidence of real world fact dictates. -- -Mike- mmarlowREMOVE(a)alltel.net |