![]() ![]() Schoenberger said the electronic control of each wheel’s speed makes hub motors excel at precision cornering. “Then they can take on some really fascinating ideas on how to control those,” he said. Industry watcher Robert Schoenberger said getting the hub motors synched is the first step. “To me, they’re software with a lot of metal wrapped around them,” he said. 2020 back at least five months, and likely longer. CEO Steve Burns says the pandemic has set the production target of Dec. WKSU A skeleton crew of a couple dozen engineers are working to retool and reconfigure the GM's former Cruze plant to make the new Lordstown Motors Endurance all-electric pickup truck. “Every time the car hits a bump, or a pot hole, or a speed bump all the weight has to get started in one direction and then move in the opposite direction,” with potentially unsettling results said Davis. The momentum, especially when out of sync, can toss your body like a rag doll.Įach Endurance hub-motor weighs around 70 pounds, add in the tire weight, and it’s more than twice as heavy as an average pickup wheel.ĭavis says it can be hard to maintain the balance of all that weight shifting outside the springs. Imagine the feeling you get when you swing your arms holding a gallon of milk in each hand. “The feature they call the unsprung mass," said Davis, "that’s the weight of the motor carried in each powered wheel.” ![]() One reason, according to engineer and electric power author Sam Davis, is physics. “I gotta tell you it’s a nice ride," said Pence, "and I’m a truck guy.”īut why did it take 120 years for another car maker to use hub motors on a commercial vehicle? Around 600 workers will be hired to stamp bodies, assemble cabs, and produce the vehicle's battery pack and hub motors. former GM plant in Lordstown is being converted to produce the all-electric Endurance. ![]() The sleek truck took a couple laps around the plant before gliding onto the stage, where passenger Vice President Mike Pence offered modest praise. What happens when you put the motors outside the vehicle? “You see Lime or Bird scooters, the invention that made all those happen is the hub motor.”Īctually the hub motor goes back to the dawn of the automobile.įerdinand Porsche debuted his hub-motor car at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Inside those four wheels are electric motors that Burns says are larger versions of those seen scattered on sidewalks in American cities. “This vehicle has four moving parts in the drivetrain, that’s the four wheels,” he said. What he won’t be putting into the pickup is a typical truck engine. “We’re here to put Lordstown on the back of every tailgate we make,” said Burns. The coronavirus has pushed back projected delivery dates to mid-to-late 2021. LORDSTOWN MOTORS Lordstown Motors is hoping to be the first all-electric pickup truck sold in America. ![]()
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