• lemming741@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    No, less than 2000 cars is not mass market.

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    Sounds very limited market.

    Those are golf cart and scooter motors, not suitable for highways

    BMW currently uses brushed motors in their EVs so I’m not looking to them for any advice. Maybe BMW wants their traditional central layout CM450 tech. But! DeepDrive is the first hub motor I’ve seen that did not need gearing, so that is actually cool. I think they’ll be relegated to rear wheels due to scrub radius limitations but that could be ok.