Proposal: Updated Vehicles

[mmartin798]

I remember that discussion. I was basing much of that on the Oshkosh Defense HEMTT A3 that used their ProPulse hybrid diesel-electric drive train. The HEMTT A3 only uses one motor per axle rather than one per wheel. The one motor per axle approach may be better for a mine resistant vehicle, since the motor will be behind armor.

[Desert Mariner]

I was thinking along the same line of using 1 motor per axle; but we lose the redundancy. Plus, I was trying to minimize the number of different motors and support systems to shorten the supply chain.

I think my original concept (not posted) was one 192kW (258hp), 429Nm motor, drawing 118kW per axle vice hub. This meant using a 250kW fusion plant for the 4x4s but that's probably manageable. The 6x6 variants would then need 350kW plants or down-sized motors.

This would be so much easier if BEM had brought back mature plans for Inductance Energy Corp.'s Earth Engine, which uses magnetic propulsion to generate energy.

https://e-catworld.com/2019/03/15/in...s-vegas-video/