Australia: Undergrad develops cheap kit for hybrid electric vehicle conversion

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NADA, Ford and Shell lobby to outlaw it in the U.S. in 3… 2…

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why bother with all that when you can just buy the patent?

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  • ccderg@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wheel spacers are already illegal, atleast in Finland

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    • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wish they were in the US. People raise their trucks up a foot or two dand set the wheels out wide (wider than fenders is illegal, but have never seen enforced). They usually change the wheels for wider tires, but adding wheel spacers is common.

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ooh I would love to do this with my car and have a hybrid awd

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• Haraknos@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It sounds like a hoax… How can such a small thing pull a 1,5 Tons vehicule ? And why is there so few data about this ? At the same time I really want to try this, please let this be real!

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  • WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New EV supercars are using similar axial flux motors. I was hoping someone would come up with this because spinning the axles directly with wheel mounted motors seems like a much easier retrofit than replacing the engine and gear box. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICTi2Z_X5Kw

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• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That looks very familiar. I saw something similar advertised in a Popular Mechanics. I don’t remember whether it was an article or an ad, but it was there.

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah. Okay

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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Conversion to a hybrid seems more complicated, not less.

  They’re adding a bunch of weight to the rear wheels - I’m sure that’s going to effect things? How does it trade-off with the ICE smoothly? How much per model customization is needed?

  It’s an interesting idea - but there are a lot of details being left out…

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  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your goal should not be to buy a hybrid or to “upgrade” to a hybrid. At this point, anyone buying a new vehicle should either be sticking to ICE or going full BEV. Anything else is. generally, a waste of money and tradeoffs.

    But the point of this is more to extend the life of existing vehicles. That beater Camry that you have been driving for ten years? For a couple grand you can help the environment and probably make that back in gas over a few years if you mostly drive city.

    You definitely lose out. Your trunk space is likely to shrink considerably (since even a 100 km battery is going to have some heft) and your overall gas mileage likely will go down when in ICE mode because of the weight of everything. But, again, if you are mostly commuting to work with a lot of stop and go traffic, it is a good upgrade to consider.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I drive an '07 ICE pickup. Would adding a battery / motors to it for the remaining 5ish years of its life really be worth the impact to the environment for those batteries just to save a bit of fuel over that time period?

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• rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If y’all remember that Kia Soul that got launched by a wheel, it’s a more dramatic example but a potential downside to what amounts to a spacer. It’s certainly a cool proof-of-concept but I can’t see it taking off since I doubt it’ll be as efficient as a factory hybrid and the upfront cost, labor, troubleshooting, explaining it to a mechanic will eat fuel savings.

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