Electric Axels For Trucks - Wrenchin' Up
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Protean Electric has designed and developed a unique in-wheel electric drive system for hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric light-duty vehicles. The Protean Drive® system can improve vehicle fuel economy, add torque, increase power and enable improved vehicle handling to both new and existing vehicles
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Protean Drive® is a fully-integrated, direct-drive solution that combines in-wheel motors with an integrated inverter, control electronics and software - no separate large, heavy and costly inverter is required. Each motor packages easily in the unused space behind a conventional 18- to 24-inch wheel and can use the original equipment wheel bearing. The direct-drive configuration reduces part count, complexity and cost, so there is no need to integrate traditional drivetrain components such as external gearing, transmissions, driveshafts, axles and differentials.
Direct-drive, in-wheel motors require no gearboxes, driveshafts or differentials thus giving far greater flexibility to vehicle designers while substantially reducing drivetrain losses. The reduced drivetrain losses mean less energy is wasted (during both acceleration and regenerative braking), resulting in more of the energy from the battery pack being available to propel the vehicle.
Each in-wheel motor can be controlled entirely independently, providing far greater control, performance and vehicle dynamics than any other drive system. In addition, traction control, launch control and torque vectoring are all easily implemented through the use of in-wheel motors. My guest, Protean Electric's Tom Prucha shows us more.
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Protean is the product of the future....and it always will be.
Hi - Thanks for the comment and Thanks for watching!
Where did this go?! Vaporware? Let's add this to a fwd or rwd combustion engine & let's go!
Hi Arlequin - Thanks for watching! Good question and you can check with the manufacturer. Their web address is in the video description.
I see myself using that on pick up for fuel economy and towing help.
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Impressive stuff! I wonder if these will come down in price and size enough for people to hybridize their personal vehicles, particularly older ones.
Hi - Good question. I suggest that you contact the manufacturer for an answer. Their contact information is in the metadata below the video. Thanks for watching!
RG letourneau would be really excited if he was here to reintroduce his electric wheel
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This is a no-brainer product that is incredibly ideal and ripe for the picking. Tho, it's a bit surprising/dumbfounding why Magna and other capable companies/entrepreneurs aren't pursuing this with reckless abandon(?) The 1st company that offers aftermarket, bolt-on "electric motor axle kits" for light-duty trucks, will easily rake in Millions/Billions!
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Nice i would love to install these in a motor home
Hi - Thanks for watching and sharing your opinion! You could check with the manufacturer to see what's available. Their contact information is in the video description.
Very interesting!
Hi - I agree and Thanks for watching!
Prove me wrong Protean, enough with endless press releases and offer aftermarket kits or release it on any platform...4-wheelers seem like a good first release.
Hi - Thanks for your comment but don't forget to comment to Protean directly via their contact information in the video description. They would appreciate your interest. Thanks for watching!
All these in wheel hub motor systems don't seem to ever leave the initial funding stages for obvious reasons..
You know what would make this even better? If you could actually buy it...........
Hi - Thanks for watching and sharing your opinion. I think this company may have been bought out. You will probably have to do a Google search to find out how to get this.
@@WrenchinUpwithJimBates I already did. If you go to the protean website they only way to buy any of their products is to be a vehicle manufacturer
Muscle cars have solid axles 😉
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I’d love to install this on my 98 f150
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I would like to use this on my RV
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Do you have anything like this for a simple back axle for a front-wheel drive vehicle?
Hi - Thanks for Watching! Good question. Hopefully the manufacturer will jump in and provide the answer. You might also get more information from them directly. Their contact information is in the video description.
Where
Hi - Thanks for watching! Good question, but I don’t have any updated information on this. I suggest that you check with the manufacturer. Their contact information is in the video description.
Juice from ??aka( from where or how get electricity)
Ditch aka rid, remove,
1 differencial
2 Driveshaft 3 trans add gen to engine.
In other words what is power source ,, only battery??
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*6 YEARS LATER:* It's like we live in the Matrix, 99% of all these companies, inventions and ideas never happen. Where is everything? Every day, of every week, of every month for 15 years we've been hearing about all this stuff so where is it?
Hi - Thanks for watching! I read in the trades somewhere that the company was purchased by one of the OEMs (I forgot who and can’t find the article again), so maybe we’ll finally get to see this one someday?
@@WrenchinUpwithJimBates Probably because they shut it down, the entire idea is companies buy organizations that differ or compete with them, then shutter them on purpose.
So at launch, you don't speak on Horsepower, IF you knew your application and customer uses and mechanics period.
Hi - Thanks for watching! Since that didn’t come up in the interview, I suggest that you contact the manufacturer for that information. Their contact information is in the video’s description.
Do you have motors for Hummer H1 producing 200HP on each wheel ???
Hi - Thanks for watching! Great question, but you’ll have to ask the manufacturer. Their contact information is in the video description.
I’d like to put an electric motor on the front wheels of my rear engine bus. 4wd hybrid electric school bus.
Hi - Thanks for watching! I suggest that you check with the manufacturer to see what they offer. Their contact information is in the video description.
havent heard this lately i have a 04 2500 and i want this for better gas mileage
Hi - Thanks for watching! This company may have been sold. I'll update this video's description when I find out how to obtain more information on these axels.
Are these available for sale now?
Hi - Thanks for watching! I have seen articles where this system has been used in limited applications over the last few years. Just a few days ago I read where this company has just been bought by someone ( I forget who) so we will have to see what the future availability is going to be.
It’s such a travesty that anything electric is even 1/2 the cost of gas. It’s older technology then gas and has exactly the same moving parts as the original......1. Battery technology is the only side that has an excuse to be costly, not the motors to.
Hi - Thanks for your interesting and thought provoking comment, and Thanks for watching!
Take a front wheel drive pro master van and replace the rear axle with electric. Left dead pedal is for acceleration and breaking of the rear axle. Giggity.
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Need this on my 2500 and on my raptor 😱
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Please I need to contact this company
Hi - Their contact information is in the video description.
@@WrenchinUpwithJimBates where the link
Protean doesn't answer my email.
Hi - Thanks for this information. Perhaps another company owns them and their technology. I'll update this e-mail string when I discover any further information about this.