Active Wheel houses motor, brake, and suspension inside the wheel. .....

http://www.dailytech.com/Miche ... he+Wheel/article13553.htm

I'm not gonna hold my breath for this to appear. But its interesting to say the least.

What does it actually achieve, locating parts inside the wheel? Why not just bolt a conventional wheel onto the internal bits?

So when do we get this in LFS?

i liked the tweel better

Not bad if it can get 120bhp with four of them.

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These wheels could make it easier for designers to develop attractive electric vehicles

This seems to have been every single electric car I've ever seen's main failing. Why don't manufacturers have a go at designing an electric car that *doesn't* look like a shoe? Maybe people would buy it then.

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Not bad if it can get 120bhp with four of them.

Even better then that it would make 120kW, which is 161hp.

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Why don't manufacturers have a go at designing an electric car that *doesn't* look like a shoe? Maybe people would buy it then.

And I could have sworn this was internal combustion based.

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And I could have sworn this was internal combustion based.

That rear wing is a bit oversized, i'm affraid I have no option but to write that care off as "rice".

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Even better then that it would make 120kW, which is 161hp.

I *did* take the KW/bhp conversion into account but then managed to get my maths arse-about face.

I took 30KW ~ 40bhp and managed to get 120 from 40 x 4...