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The Electric Wheel® device greatly reduces the complexity and number of parts in a self-contained motor/transmission device while providing redundancy and energy regeneration capabilities. The Electric Wheel is a ring/planetary/sun gear assembly that can be utilized as an infinitely variable transmission, eliminating the need for gear shifting, and greatly reducing the complexity and number of parts needed to construct a transmission. Coupled with two electric motors the device has high efficiency, can overcome dead loads, produce soft-starts and can regenerate energy thru unused torque.

The Electric Wheel may be constructed with one electric motor power input device and the second power input device being any suitable power input device, such as an internal combustion engine (I.C.E.).

The Electric Wheel can be incorporated into a wheel hub assembly or coupled to a drive shaft for vehicular applications. It can also be used in myriads of other applications where overcoming dead loads and soft-start capabilities are required. The Electric Wheel is a proven device that also provides redundancy and energy regeneration.

The Electric Transaxle™ is a special adaptation of the Electric Wheel technology. A device, capable of being constructed somewhat the size and configuration of a conventional rear-wheel drive differential axle, contains the propulsion motors, transmission and differential. This provides for an extremely simplified drive system containing three electric motors for a total of as few as thirteen moving parts, counting bearings. Unlike the Electric Wheel, the patents for the Electric Transaxle were written to allow the input power to be of any type appropriate for the application. Electric motors may provide for the most compact design but application requirements may indicate that one or more of the input devices be of a different type, such as an I.C.E.

Both of these devices are covered by US and international patents. Prototypes have been built and tested. Real-world installations of the Electric Wheel have been performed and several of the devices are in daily use. The Electric Wheel and Electric Transaxle technologies can be scaled both up and down for a myriad of applications.