"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
09/11/2014 at 13:43 • Filed to: None
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"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
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With electric cars potentially coming out with an electric motor in each of their wheels, such as the Protean F-150 Concept, it would actually be possible to power the left-front and the right-rear. Or both lefts or both rights. Or one front and two rears.
Depending on what type of turn you face and what your driving style is, you could coax a car like this around a turn with more than just steering, but also intelligent use of each motor, either via a super smart computer a-la-GTR or if you are real good, with some type of controller. It would bring some form of manual car control back into your hands rather than rowing your own gears, you select your own wheels on maybe an 8-axis joystick, haha.
Hard-rights: power both left wheels?
Longer-Rights: power both lefts + right-rear?
Straight-line: All-4.
I imagine this is to some extent being achieved with differentials, but does this make it even more interesting? What are your thoughts?
HammerheadFistpunch
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:46 |
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Hells yeah there is, torque vector all the things!
Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:46 |
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Like SLS Electric?
Prepare for massive battery drain..
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/11/2014 at 13:47 |
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Dang! There's a word I should have used :D Haha.
mcseanerson
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:48 |
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If tanks have taught me anything the answer is a resounding yes. Imagine rally cars in tight corners.
spanfucker retire bitch
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:55 |
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It also cuts down on parasitic loss. There's a lot of power that's lost with mechanical AWD and ICE due to the necessity of multiple driveshafts.
With an electric motor power each wheel directly, the parasitic loss is drastically reduced. To say nothing about the ridiculous cornering you can achieve with torque vectoring.
EL_ULY
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:57 |
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Infinite traction control management and stability management
daender
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 13:57 |
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Torque-vectoring ftw! The Prodrive P2 made Clarkson sick before he could find its skid-pad grip limit.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> spanfucker retire bitch
09/11/2014 at 14:04 |
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Yes, and the tank pic above made me realize you can do 0-degree turns like a damn lawn mower. If you spin out you could turn your vehicle around quite comically.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> EL_ULY
09/11/2014 at 14:04 |
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Yes it's blowing my mind and I'm not even an engineer.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> daender
09/11/2014 at 14:14 |
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At that point you almost need the training of an F1 Driver.
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> mcseanerson
09/11/2014 at 14:15 |
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yeah, I hadn't even thought of throwing one side in reverse, lol.
The Transporter
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/11/2014 at 14:58 |
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I'm not sure how well manually controlling each wheel would work.
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> The Transporter
09/11/2014 at 15:09 |
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I was thinking it would take the place of the shifter in a manual car, since electric cars come with 1 gear, maybe 2, it'd be an 8-direction joystick. So you'd still only have a go and brake pedal.