HiSPL
Fanking Champion 1993
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2015
- Location
- College Station, TX
The new t8 Volvos have a complete electric rear axle. Its actually quite marvelous. I believe the motor is around 100 hp with 300 ft/lb of torque. When you have the car in electric only mode, its got plenty of grunt to have fun. 100 hp... and lots of torque. seems like it would be right at home in a 240.
And if you wanted to go crazier, use a 960. You can swap in a FWD engine and trans from an early S70 or 850 and then do a direct drive electric on the stock 960 rear diff. Go big DC motor for launches or drifting, but you wouldn't need a massive battery pack for range because the gas engine would handle that.
The only downside to this would be using it as a constant-loss system for the electric unless you figured out a way to charge it from the ICE. Which could be done, but there would be efficiency trade-offs. Not to mention the lack of space.