Wonder if you could install a tensioner pulley of some sort if you wanted to disengage the electric. But don't see why you would want to the seems the electric would work well as an alternator to charge batteries.
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You'd have to be able to swap between the diesel and the electric motor on the drive shaft, otherwise the electric motor would act as a giant alternator when running the diesel and that would greatly decrease the efficiency of the diesel. If you have regen set up, it would however charge your batteries rather quickly.
Hi Matthew,
Would you plan to somehow disengage the belt to the pulleys when using your diesel motor?
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