cwah said:Simple answer:
- dual hubbies are more efficiency when torque or acceleration is required. It reaches faster top efficiency. In city commuting, dual hubby is most efficient.
- for long straight road, single motor is more efficient
liveforphysics said:Where you mention above that dual hubs is most efficient for commuting, I think you may find that not to be the case vs a single appropriately designed rear motor alone. Something starting in a 273mm or greater radius with width of the lamination stack chosen to match the applications needs would be pretty hard to beat for ultimate efficiency vs any combination of width or quantity of also direct drive motors using same grade/quality of magnetic materials in ~203mm.
Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh said:liveforphysics said:Where you mention above that dual hubs is most efficient for commuting, I think you may find that not to be the case vs a single appropriately designed rear motor alone. Something starting in a 273mm or greater radius with width of the lamination stack chosen to match the applications needs would be pretty hard to beat for ultimate efficiency vs any combination of width or quantity of also direct drive motors using same grade/quality of magnetic materials in ~203mm.
you're blithely skipping over the increased angler momentum
"...If you are accelerating at a reasonable rate, your front wheel is...off the ground..."