On 26 Oct 2023 at 19:57, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > One of Solectria's tricks was to meticulously adjust their EVs for zero > toe-in. You could easily push a Solectria Force with one hand.
Solectria's founder James Worden seemed a bit fanatical about efficiency. He could have sold his cars for less money had he retained the Geo Metro transaxle. But for most of the production he used lighter, lower friction, single-speed Solectria/Brusa developed transaxles because they were more efficient. As Lee suggests, there were lots of other efficiency tweaks at play, including carefully designed inverters and solid regen. They made for a watt-hour-sipping EV. In suburban driving at 40mph average speed, early Forces typically used about 140-160 wh/mile at the battery. Interesting too that Brusa's Axel Krause put similar drive components into his Mini-Evergreen (search for "Commincation" Mini Evergreen EV) and got 130- 135 wh/mile in similar driving. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- SC Johnson = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
