alt Hacker NewsI don't see the weight reduction being very significant.
If we take a Tesla model 3, I believe it weighs 1611kg, and the motor shows up at 80kg if you google it (no idea if this is correct). This YASA motor by comparison weighs 14kg. So, this would drop the vehicle weight by 66kg out of 1611, so that's a 4% saving.
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robotresearcher • yesterday at 3:20 PM
This motor is well more than twice as powerful as the Model 3 motor, so it could eliminate the entire weight of the second motor in the higher performance models. That’s 146kg, the weight of two adults, an 11% reduction.
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I assume that means it would be more like an 8% savings on the dual motor variants? At what point does it become significant?