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Donut Lab's New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The Finland-based company's in-wheel motor serves up 650 kilowatts of power

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think there's any practical way for that to happen and I expect you'd want to put tires over top of these anyway. Which will themselves be very expensive because they won't be able to mount regular tires on them.

[โ€“] nawa 4 points 3 days ago

I'm sure they can design it in a way to work with existing tires. But I'm also sure there's zero chance replacing these wheels will be anywhere near cheap.