MTSU group seeking to commercialize new wheel motor plug-in hybrid retrofit kit
Green Car Congress
JULY 25, 2012
A prototype plug-in hybrid retrofit kit is applied to a research vehicle’s rear wheels. After switching on the traction motors, the vehicle fuel economy increased from 50–100%. They took the space that exists around the rear-wheel brake structure and packaged in a 3-phase DC brushless traction motor on each rear wheel.
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