Only when the bus needs to slow down more quickly than the wheel motors can slow it do the brakes come into play.
Instead, small wheel motors drove it up the incline of a tight helix.
The way to do this would be four in wheel electric motors.
All the top teams now use wheel motors, eliminating belt or chain drives.
They simultaneously worked on developing a more powerful version of the in wheel motors for 4WD applications.
The braking mechanisms can be lighter as the wheel motors brake the vehicle.
Some 8x8 all-wheel drive military vehicles use individual wheel motors.
Dvora reached down and switched off the wheel motors.
This should lead to cheaper active dynamic safety systems for wheel motor equipped road vehicles.
Mitsubishi' experimental car, presented in May 2005, is fitted with wheel motors at the rear.