Rogue4x4

Never said that...just that there will be waste product of some form or another..."clean energy" isn't clean, nobody ever talks about the elephant in the room when it comes to hybrid cars, like lithium ion batteries...nasty stuff in there, too, and when all these hybrids reach their end of life, now they have tons of toxic waste to get rid of. Sure the air is cleaner, but now you need to worry about groundwater contamination, and carcinogens in the soil. Cause and effect, the trick is finding a happy medium everyone can agree with...

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okay if you're not saying I should just give up on trying then what are you saying?

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So everyone is suggesting we don't even try to make things better?

SoCalxJ4.0

What kind of axles? 4 motors? How many? Whats your funding like? I have some cool ideas too, just need a backer!

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its more just an idea right now I haven't worked out anything on paper but I would really like to start moving forward with the idea

N20jeep

My issue would be life. I'm out wheeling 8-12 hours at a time in places you cant just plug in.

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[QUOTE="N20jeep;2640846"]My issue would be life. I'm out wheeling 8-12 hours at a time in places you cant just plug in


There are ways to take care of that issue. This is more theoretically speaking but I feel like there is a future in perpetual motion.

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There are ways to take care of that issue. This is more theoretically speaking but I feel like there is a future in perpetual motion.

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well I see that Tesla uses a CV axle style but I would prefer to stick with the great articulation provided by the straight axle in jeeps. what kind of ideas do you have?

Prototype4342

If you wanted a straight axle you could always modify the axle so the motor sits where the diff typically would. I hope you have loads of batteries so you don't get stuck out in the wilderness somewhere without the ability to charge sans maybe a few volts of solar charging on the roof or something.

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see those are really good ideas somebody just needed to get the ball rolling I mean those don't sound like very ridiculous ideas. you could even have a drive axle coming straight from the electric motor to a differential

Prototype4342

Yeah the biggest issue with replacing the pumpkin with a motor is hitting it on rocks and such, unless you have one hell of a skid made for it. Solar charging would be nice but would take days unless the whole Jeep was made of solar panels.

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yeah I think multiple batteries would be good for backup though. I liked that idea. If you just have a drive shaft coming from the motor not too different from the normal set up. You would get a lot more torque than most people think.
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andrewmp6

By the time we run out of oil you would be 800 years old if you could live that long,And a company in nj figured out a way to make gasoline from natural gas which we have tons of.If it was me vw diesel swap you could fun veggie oil or make waste oil aka automatic transmission fluid and power steering fluid.

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don't you still get emissions with that?