I'm not sure you actually paid attention to the video. The first half is Justin explaining how it's normallly not a good idea. Then he gives some reasons why you might want to do it, most of those are not the ones talked about in this thread. We aren't talking about weird vehicle designs or about driving multiple wheels.
Redundancy is debatable as making something that is redundant while also making the whole system less reliable and more complex defeats the purpose. In general electric motors are extremely reliable and if you want something that is reliable you should address the reasons why ebike motors fail not just slap another motor on while not addressing the issues with it either.
In terms of power I honestly think Justin is somewhat wrong, he's kind of just ignoring the fact that more powerful motors exist. If you want a more powerful hub motor QS will sell you any number of insanely powerful hubs and if you want a mid drive kit that will do the same you can buy an LR kit in whatever your flavor of insanity is. I've seen people put LR
I'm not sure you actually paid attention to the video. The first half is Justin explaining how it's normallly not a good idea. Then he gives some reasons why you might want to do it, most of those are not the ones talked about in this thread. We aren't talking about weird vehicle designs or about driving multiple wheels.
Redundancy is debatable as making something that is redundant while also making the whole system less reliable and more complex defeats the purpose. In general electric motors are extremely reliable and if you want something that is reliable you should address the reasons why ebike motors fail not just slap another motor on while not addressing the issues with it either.
In terms of power I honestly think Justin is somewhat wrong, he's kind of just ignoring the fact that more powerful motors exist. If you want a more powerful hub motor QS will sell you any number of insanely powerful hubs and if you want a mid drive kit that will do the same you can buy an LR kit in whatever your flavor of insanity is. I've seen people put LR big block XLs or QS 205 50Hs on unmodified bicycle frames, those people were insane but they did it without much difficulty.
I'm not even against dual motors, I actually built a dual motor bike, a 2WD fatbike with identical motors but the reason was not for more power it was for the 2WD and I was willing to take the multiple motor penatly to get that capability. My point is the reasons for a dual motors hub + mid are very few with lots of reasons against. Honestly the reasoning for many builds like this seems to be slapping cheap ebike kits together is easier than designing the vehicle from the start to do what it needs to. Which I guess is fair but I would rather have 1 motor that I've designed to be efficient, powerful enough, and durable for the application.
I'm not sure you actually paid attention to the video. The first half is Justin explaining how it's normallly not a good idea. Then he gives some reasons why you might want to do it, most of those are not the ones talked about in this thread. We aren't talking about weird vehicle designs or about driving multiple wheels.
Redundancy is debatable as making something that is redundant while also making the whole system less reliable and more complex defeats the purpose. In general electric motors are extremely reliable and if you want something that is reliable you should address the reasons why ebike motors fail not just slap another motor on while not addressing the issues with it either.
In terms of power I honestly think Justin is somewhat wrong, he's kind of just ignoring the fact that more powerful motors exist. If you want a more powerful hub motor QS will sell you any number of insanely powerful hubs and if you want a mid drive kit that will do the same you can buy an LR kit in whatever your flavor of insanity is. I've seen people put LR big block XLs or QS 205 50Hs on unmodified bicycle frames, those people were insane but they did it without much difficulty.
I'm not even against dual motors, I actually built a dual motor bike, a 2WD fatbike with identical motors but the reason was not for more power it was for the 2WD and I was willing to take the multiple motor penatly to get that capability. My point is the reasons for a dual motors hub + mid are very few with lots of reasons against. Honestly the reasoning for many builds like this seems to be slapping cheap ebike kits together is easier than designing the vehicle from the start to do what it needs to. Which I guess is fair but I would rather have 1 motor that I've designed to be efficient, powerful enough, and durable for the application.
big block XLs or QS 205 50Hs on unmodified bicycle frames, those people were insane but they did it without much difficulty.
I'm not even against dual motors, I actually built a dual motor bike, a 2WD fatbike with identical motors but the reason was not for more power it was for the 2WD and I was willing to take the multiple motor penatly to get that capability. My point is the reasons for a dual motors hub + mid are very few with lots of reasons against. Honestly the reasoning for many builds like this seems to be slapping cheap ebike kits together is easier than designing the vehicle from the start to do what it needs to. Which I guess is fair but I would rather have 1 motor that I've designed to be efficient, powerful enough, and durable for the application.
