Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same

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• RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems like this adds more than a bit to the unsprung weight of the wheel.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  BEHOLD

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Corn?

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t need video(s) to understand the subject here : I just use an image search :
  duckduckgo.com/?q=%2B"Hyundai+Uni+Wheel"&t=of…

  This is a mechanical device that allows coupling of any wheels of any vehicles to any electric motor.

  it is designed in such a way to permit vertical movement of the wheel without the need of such movement of the motor. So basically it is a new type of suspension.

  Since it needs many gears in a row for the transit of mechanical energy it will incure an inefficiency factor.

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• worsedoughnut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fascinating, but in the video they very quickly swipe off-screen that the top speed their new system was able to achieve was 120 kph / ~75 mph.

  I imagine something like this would have to be limited to vehicles that never need to approach speeds above that on a highway, so maybe busses or indoor shipping & receiving vehicles.

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• DarkGamer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's neat, I'm looking forward to electric vehicles with the sort of modularity and space they are envisioning.

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• FunkyMonk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Neat!

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• swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is cool, but wouldn’t it make any tire issue an engine issue and this way more expensive and difficult to deal with?

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