Concept Car Hubless Wheels

[raus]

Hi everyone! This is my new creation, concept car with hubless system. Two Xl motor for drive and one new motor for steering, full independent suspension.

https://www.facebook.com/marcelo.raus

[Junpei]

Very cool idea, maybe not the best performance but certainly a Lego first! Looks very futuristic.

Are those 94.4 x 44R wheels?

TLH

Edited January 5, 2014 by TwentyLeggedHen

[piterx]

wow that's an original idea! i like it

sure it can't go any faster :P?

[Lost_In_Noise]

This is so cool-looking. I only wonder if it could go faster, seems terribly slow...

[camaudio]

greatest looking car body ever

[bmollema]

Amazingly cool..like to see pictures of the hubless design to understand how it is build.

[Lipko]

Looks amazing! I also would love to see some pictures.

[Zerobricks]

Great work! But does it support the weight okay, even when you lift the car, or does it simply fall off?

Edited January 5, 2014 by Zblj

[Kronos]

Amazingly cool..like to see pictures of the hubless design to understand how it is build.

Great work! But does it support the weight okay, even when you lift the car, or does it simply fall off?

Me too. This is very interesting to me.

Mike

[Phoxtane]

This is so cool-looking. I only wonder if it could go faster, seems terribly slow...

Agreed, this car is extremely snazzy. I think it could be made to go faster if the medium-size or large pulley wheels were used?

[Rishab N]

Looks great! The only downside is that terrible performance

[Lakop]

Great looking car and an original idea. It needs bespoke tyres, or at least some other tyre like thing to make contact with the ground and work with your set up. You could, for example, use tracks. You car will set many a lego technic brain thinking now. Good job.

H

[LegoMonkeyMan]

I like the idea but what is the point of a hubless wheel?

[Seasider]

looks great but if you look at the video you can see the big issue with hubless wheels ... you need the friction between the tyre/wheel and the drive system to be larger than that between the tyres and the ground ... if you look the front right wheel at one point just slides rather than rolls

if you switched to a smooth lego tyre (like the unimog) you might get better traction

as to why .... because they look cool on a concept car having no wheel centres ... been used in lots of sci fi too ...completely useless in reality tho

[raus]

Thank you all for the comments! Quiz first know if it was possible to make a car with this concept, unable to greater speed due to the total weight and friction in wheel system. Getting to walk and turn with hubless has made me glad! Of course if it was faster it would be much better. In practice this system is used in a functional way motocilcletas in cars only in prototypes thereof. Follows more pictures and another video, thanks guys!

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=538313

[Lipko]

That model would be good and interesting enough even with regular wheels.

[SNIPE]

reminds me of the Nike one car, definetley a lego first.

maybe using the halfire droid wheels would work better as they have teeth on the inside

[Feri84]

Great idea and the design is very cool!

[cedric1968]

very nice idea, it's like Sbarro project

http://sbarro.perso.neuf.fr/voitures/Orbital_hybrid/Sbarro_Orbital_Hybrid_roue.jpg

[Rockbrick]

Technically unique, functionally superior and even a nice looking car too!

[unimog123]

The design is awesome. And I don't know how you came up with an idea like that, but it's awesome.

[Energo]

Very interesting idea of wheel construction. Looks and works awesome but too slow. It'll be cooler if this car moves faster but I'm not sure that it's possible in such size(

Anyway, very original and unusual.