Motorola built an electric 87 Corvette in the early 90s. (Page 1/1)
Raydar SEP 21, 11:18 AM
This is really cool. 482 HP (vs the stock ~250 HP). No info is provided regarding range, or charging times.

I left Motorola in 1991. There were a lot of internal changes happening, and not for the good.
Although I was nowhere near this, and didn't know a thing about it, I'll speculate that those changes could possibly be why this project was not pursued.

https://www.thedrive.com/cu...otype-from-the-1990s



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Patrick SEP 21, 03:26 PM

Raydar, thanks for posting that! Pretty interesting article... and the comments below the article are very informative as well.
A_Lonely_Potato SEP 21, 03:27 PM
what really intrigues me is that the electric motor drove the standard manual transmission. i've never thought about using an electric motor that way. i guess it was probably the best option, the motors back then may not have been as crazily torque-y as they are today. total speculation though
Raydar SEP 21, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by A_Lonely_Potato:

...the electric motor drove the standard manual transmission. i've never thought about using an electric motor that way.



This was originally the "4+3" manual with overdrive.
It said in the printed "user instructions", for normal around-town driving, the best option would be to start out in 2nd, and then press the overdrive button if you want more speed. I wonder what 4th plus overdrive would do.

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Jake_Dragon SEP 21, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by Raydar:


This was originally the "4+3" manual with overdrive.
It said in the printed "user instructions", for normal around-town driving, the best option would be to start out in 2nd, and then press the overdrive button if you want more speed. I wonder what 4th plus overdrive would do.




I wonder if there was a lock out for the RPMs, at a high RPM I wouldn't expect that transmission to last very long.
OK I wouldn't expect that transmission to last very long with the torque of an electric motor puts out either.

But it makes you wonder, with the right gearing an electric motor wouldn't pull as much power.