London Banter - View Single Post - Electric or Hybrid Card or something car, suggestions?

Ian Johnston · April 13th 04, 12:37 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.misc,uk.transport.london

(D.P.Round) wrote in message ...

(Electric motors don't *have*
to suffer transmission losses because they can be designed to pretty
much any set of torque and speed specifications.)

Which is fine if you want a particular torque speed combination only.
In an application like a car, where you need to have power delivered
across a large speed range, efficiency considerations may well require
a gearbox. And anyway, unless the motor(s) are built into the driven
wheels, there will still be transmission losses.

Ian