Comments on: Car Wheels Have Separate Motors (Apr, 1933)

By: jayessell

jayessell — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:23:12 +0000

A 1960s era Popular Science described an electric car where each wheel had an electric motor which also acted as brakes.
Something like the Lunar Rover!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:57:38 +0000

Hey Roger:
The “two long shafts” which you wrote are “sticking our the passenger side of the hood” are actually the chassis members as shown in this “phantom” or “see-through” type of pictorial illustration.
From the photo/illustration, it’s almost impossible to work out if the writer got it wrong (Perhaps something lost in translation from German?) or that it really does have two engines driving the front wheels separately.

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:20:36 +0000

What do you suppose the two long shafts with what looks like pedals are.
They are sticking our the passenger side of the hood (horizontally).
Maybe to carry a stretcher in wartime?

By: Torgo

Torgo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:56:32 +0000

One wonders what’s under the rest of the hood.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:23:28 +0000

Ferdinand Porsche designed a car in 1901 that used batteries and a generator to power four separate electric motors in the wheel hubs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....xte_Hybrid

By: Urban

Urban — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:16:52 +0000

I’m sure this is a misunderstanding by the writer. This looks like an Adler, and it only had one motor and a front wheel drive much like cars today do.