UK-based consortium aims to perfect in-wheel motors with a drive in a modified Defender
Electromods are not to everyone's taste, it would be fair to say. Take this Land Rover Defender: shorn of all its traditional drivetrain hardware - driveshafts, transfer cases, engine, differential locks - is it even a Defender at all any more? Yet this is an electromod with a difference because it previews some very real and very relevant technology that could transform electric cars in particular and vehicle design more generally.
That chug of the diesel engine and the rattles it sends through the cabin would shake the fillings out of an NVH engineer today, but that's one of the things that makes the car so charming and likeable. The shock here is the silence when you hit the start button. Is this really a Defender, you wonder? The weirdness continues: there's no heavy clutch to operate, but the handbrake remains, at least.
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