I was reading progress on designing a lightweight new high performance motor on another thread and mentioned kickstarter as a way to support the effort. perhaps this was the wrong analogy...
I don't expect you are going to have a commercial product ready for world wide distribution in 6 months when your engaged in a cool, green, rather esoteric R&D effort, but so is the Americas Cup, they just call it a race. The endless sphere supporters would be a stand in for Larry Elison, applied to electric transport.
For me you guys are kind of like public broadcasting, I listen to and follow your exploits as I would a story about a trip to the Arctic to see the affects of climate change. I'm not likely to go to the arctic, but I'm a member of NPR. There are hundreds maybe thousands of E.S. members that apply existing motor, battery and gear drive technology to their bikes, motorcycles, or other vehicles, but only a small core that are trying to design and create something new on the level of a new gear drive, motor, or controler typology. You few have the years of accumulated knowledge and experience, to try and push the envelop. I'm sure there are lots of us out here lacking the knowledge base or time to meaningfuly contribute from a technical angle. We follow the research and development on this forum avidly, however, and would value the chance to contribute on some level. I would love to know enough to use Cad, and fem to design a kickass supper lightweight motor but it's a steep learning curve and until I get there, .. why not take my twenty, or forty dollars, give me a E.S. bumper sticker, coffee mug, or E.S. skunkworks R&D t shirt, and call it good. Are you telling me that not having to worry about which steel, wire, magnets or carbon fiber cut side plates, or cnc machined brackets and plates you can afford for your prototype..... that would be a bad thing
I don't expect you are going to have a commercial product ready for world wide distribution in 6 months when your engaged in a cool, green, rather esoteric R&D effort, but so is the Americas Cup, they just call it a race. The endless sphere supporters would be a stand in for Larry Elison, applied to electric transport.
For me you guys are kind of like public broadcasting, I listen to and follow your exploits as I would a story about a trip to the Arctic to see the affects of climate change. I'm not likely to go to the arctic, but I'm a member of NPR. There are hundreds maybe thousands of E.S. members that apply existing motor, battery and gear drive technology to their bikes, motorcycles, or other vehicles, but only a small core that are trying to design and create something new on the level of a new gear drive, motor, or controler typology. You few have the years of accumulated knowledge and experience, to try and push the envelop. I'm sure there are lots of us out here lacking the knowledge base or time to meaningfuly contribute from a technical angle. We follow the research and development on this forum avidly, however, and would value the chance to contribute on some level. I would love to know enough to use Cad, and fem to design a kickass supper lightweight motor but it's a steep learning curve and until I get there, .. why not take my twenty, or forty dollars, give me a E.S. bumper sticker, coffee mug, or E.S. skunkworks R&D t shirt, and call it good. Are you telling me that not having to worry about which steel, wire, magnets or carbon fiber cut side plates, or cnc machined brackets and plates you can afford for your prototype..... that would be a bad thing
