khockey02
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- First Name
- Kalem
- Joined
- Feb 27, 2020
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- Location
- North California
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- 2020 Jeep Gladiator Sport S
I was really excited by the independent 4 wheel drivetrain, but there are several points in these review videos where it looks like the motor with traction is torque limited. Iāll try to grab a time stamp (hereās another), but if you watch any of these videos long enough youāll see a situation where it lifts a wheel and 2-3 wheels are slipping but the last wheel doesnāt have enough juice to power over the obstacle. Each of these situations is remedied by a little bump or some repositioning, but it makes you wonder if the old school locked diff still has some merit in these next gen āoff-roadersā.Its aggressively ugly. But there is some very clever and innovative tech in it.
No differentials. It has a 200 hp electric motor at each wheel. So it can do things with its 4wd system that are unimaginable with any other kind of system.
You could have a simulated "locked" axle system by turning every wheel at the same speed.
More interestingly, you could have a system that only gives power to weighted wheels and doesn't even bother turning wheels that are in the air.
On the road, or at high speed in the dirt, you can drive the outside wheels harder around a turn to enhance stability and performance.
Its a HUGE advantage in almost every driving situation and its limitations are pretty much only subject to the imagination of the software people in how they want to use it.
And its fast. Enough said on that. Reaching 60 mph in less than HALF the time it takes a Gladiator.
Ugly but cool.
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