[TexasGator]

“Turns out Woke unspring weight has completely different physical effects from bad old IC unsprung weight / s”

That study was not woke. Old fashione ICE car.

[AndyJackson]

There are a lot of obvious advantages to mounting electric motors on each wheel. Eliminates a lot of bearing, transmission and drive shaft issues which will save weight and wear. You get 4WD and without having to provide and anti-slip differential for free. On rough roads it probably save a lot in tire wear becauser the electronics can adjust torgue to maintain constant wheel RPM so you aren't accelerating the wheel rotational velocity every time you go over a bump, which then results in wear on the tire when it makes contact again with the road.

The real negative is the extent to which extra weight in the wheel assembly affects the amount of time the wheel is in contact with the ground on a bumpy road. Apparently that is not a big effect.

[Reverend Wright]

“That study was not woke. Old fashione ICE car.”

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I guess you missed the second sentence in the first paragraph where they talked about “in wheel motors”. ie. electric motors.

Not to mention that the study was done for Protean ELECTRIC.

“In a wide-ranging study connected to feasibility studies for in-wheel motors, some specific and detailed measures for the sizes of the effects in play have been taken - and the reality is something of a surprise compared to what “everybody knows”. Subjective, Objective and Predictive measures of ride & handling suggest that the modern development toolbox is easily capable of restoring dynamic performance and that the opportunities afforded by in-wheel motors...”