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Ev Archive for October 2001
1227 messages, last added Wed Oct 31 23:34:35 2001

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Re: Driveshaft ratio



> Don't know about your car - on the honda we were going to hybridize in my
> EV class, we figured that if 4th was 1:1 (on most trannys it's pretty
> close) then at 60 mph the driveshaft must be spinning pretty close to 3500
> rpms.

Dooh!  You're right.  I figured the rear-end ratio backwards (it's roughly a
4:1 reduction from the drive shaft, not an increase like I was thinking)