Awarding Innovation in Drives

I worked around the electrical engineers at Disney who built the electric vehicles at the GM exhibit. They break nearly every day.

Sintered bearings with PTFE coatings will reduce the friction and reduce manufacturing tolerances, for a term.

Electrical propulsion is difficult to keep on the road, because of the nature of the environment. Moisture will eat your stater or your power supply. It will be $10,000.00 and sealed in polymer with only a 30 day guarantee.

It's the connectors on that casing which will eventually let you down. I don't see anyone offering Beryllium Copper connectors to the general public, anytime soon.

(Probably why they received the design award, though.)

40 year old, pin and sleeve technology; and "they" won't allow it to evolve.

Don't they look silly?

Wait until the fittings weld together and you can't get them apart from the motor.

I'll give you an award for not buying into it.