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tbb9
Sep 6, 2011
I have an electric car question, I was playing with a RC car today where you would steer using two separate joysticks that controlled the "throttle" on individual wheels.

My understanding of (some) modern EVs is that they have separate electric motors for each wheel, would it ever be feasible to have a full size car steer using nothing but throttle input?

edit: I'd imagine you could make the car handle pretty well too using the individual motors like some sort of computer controlled differential too.

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tbb9
Sep 6, 2011

wilfredmerriweathr posted:

If the computer did the adjustment of torque to the various wheels for you though it could make a pretty awesome all-wheel-drive system. It'd be sort of like having an LSD front, back and center but it'd be infinitely variable and maybe even reprogrammable? That would be kickass.

This is what I keep thinking about, it sounds amazing. Didn't Mitsubishi say the next generation Evo was going to be an EV

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