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Originally Posted by Cobb
Maybe its me, but I thought an electric motor can be pushed 400% its rated capacity. I am sure Honda may not even be using it at 100%, at least what little it works as is.
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It depends on whether or not the motor is rated for peak load or continuous load. Most industrial DC motors(fork lifts, golf cars) are rated on a continuous or 1 hour rating. Their overload capability is much higher.
The brushless DC motors in the Honda IMA system seem to be rated at peak power to emphasize their performance capability. Many of us believe the rating is a little derated due to the capability of the batteries as they are running very high discharge rates relative to most any other NiMh available on the market. Retepsnikrep is trying to see if it is possible to get 150 or 200 amps out of the normal 100 amps through the motor to use with his more powerful lithium setup.
Unless you are grid charging, you don't want to do that though since it costs you more in gas to recharge the batteries through the gas engine. I think the 1.5L engine in the CRZ is plenty if you didn't need the sporty car aspect, but the motor helps with that part otherwise it doesn't really need the batteries and about the only good use they have is storing regenerative braking energy.
