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Lit Motors updates
« on: July 21, 2016, 12:39:31 PM »


For those who haven't noticed, Lit Motors has a two-wheeled enclosed aerodynamic electric vehicle prototype that drives like a car using gyroscopic stabilization in the lower frame. They've had spotty activity over a few years, which combined with a risky business plan makes most skeptical, and I recall putting money down for an all-weather electric vehicle with nice aerodynamics (since an affordable E-Tracer is just not in the cards).

Last year, they hit a snag when their CEO had a pretty bad set of motorcycle injuries, and I'd largely given up on them.


Today, however, they're teasing test drives for early pre-orderers with a newsletter that leads with "EP-4 revival and testing". I will take them up on this if it works out, being close by and in that list.


http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3b398f7b624f600b73741cdbe&id=a322eaa96e


Some of the details in the email but not the web archive indicate that they're testing closer to highway speeds now, at least, so that's encouraging.
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Re: Lit Motors updates
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2016, 03:20:49 AM »

Lit is now highlighting an internal study that predicts that a 13kWh battery on the current predicted Cd of 0.2 to yield 170 miles of highway range, as well as landing gear improvements.

The speed vs range curve is interesting; I'm still trying to figure out a reasonable planning calculator for a Zero (given parameters like a Wh/mi per mph curve which i can finally reproduce from a few data points).

http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3b398f7b624f600b73741cdbe&id=192ea3de7d
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Re: Lit Motors updates
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2016, 01:45:41 PM »

Very interesting, especially the 170 mile highway range from a 13 kWh battery. I hope they integrate a fast charging solution and come to market soon. Thanks for the update Brian.
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