[ausev] It's 11 pm and do you know where your hub-ee is?

[evehicle4me at hischopsticks.org]

Hub motor, that is ;)  I see hub motors on bikes all over the place.   
I just did a quick check on alibaba.com, a website used to market  
Chinese products.  They are showing hub motors of up to 10 KW as stock  
items, voltages vary. They are a 10" wheel...but something like this  
could be changed rather easily.

I just spent an hour on google and did not find a single article  
discussing auto ev conversions using hub motors.  Is there some reason  
why?  Transmissions add another 150 pounds or so to a vehicles weight,  
not to mention the additional complexity of the linkages to shift, or  
the torque converter, etc.  I have always thought a vehicle with a hub  
motor in each wheel would give the best of many worlds - an electric 4  
wheel drive vehicle, when needed, a vehicle with a more balanced  
weight distribution, a vehicle with far fewer moving parts (no engine  
AND tranny)

I have never posted here before.  I am open to any ideas and  
especially appreciate links to articles to help me expand my knowledge  
base.

Right now I am working on a plan to add a motor to a folding bike.  I  
will post links to pics when it is up and running.

Cheers