▲ 710 ▼ Behold The Hyundai Uni Wheel. Transportation May Never Be The Same (cleantechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 254 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) Not a problem in RWD applications. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) The whole pitch was based on replacing CV joints on front wheel drive vehicles. From the presentation it looks limiting and to be honest it looks a bit overly complicated and likely to have some massive early growing pains. CV joints are comparatively simple and this is supposed to be more reliable? That's not how it works. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago There's still CV-joints there in the video despite the uniwheel. You can't turn the wheels without one. I'm probably just not understanding this but seems like instead of making the drivetrain more simple this just adds more moving parts that's going to need oil changes and replacing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Always need a flexible joint such as CV or Universals to compensate for suspension movement. And they work in pairs, because +angular change is compensated by - angular change of opposite end of shaft. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) The whole pitch was based on replacing CV joints on front wheel drive vehicles. From the presentation it looks limiting and to be honest it looks a bit overly complicated and likely to have some massive early growing pains. CV joints are comparatively simple and this is supposed to be more reliable? That's not how it works. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago There's still CV-joints there in the video despite the uniwheel. You can't turn the wheels without one. I'm probably just not understanding this but seems like instead of making the drivetrain more simple this just adds more moving parts that's going to need oil changes and replacing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago There's still CV-joints there in the video despite the uniwheel. You can't turn the wheels without one. I'm probably just not understanding this but seems like instead of making the drivetrain more simple this just adds more moving parts that's going to need oil changes and replacing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago Always need a flexible joint such as CV or Universals to compensate for suspension movement. And they work in pairs, because +angular change is compensated by - angular change of opposite end of shaft. permalink fedilink source parent