[LinuxBender]

It's based on the H2 and the H1 geared hub axles would need to be heavily modified to handle electric motors. The H1 was full of defects. I replaced the pitman and idler arm 3 times, ball joints twice, engine once (paid for by AMG), starter once. I had not snapped the geared hub axle, but I know someone that did as they did more off-roading than I. They are designed to break early on purpose to protect the geared hubs. There is also not much room for batteries in the H1. It is designed to be low profile while having a lot of ground clearance at the same time. You would have to use up a bit of the cargo space which defeats the purpose in my opinion. Someone may mention that with electric motors, there is enough torque to not need geared hubs, but that isn't why they were implemented. It was to get the differential away from the ground for more ground clearance.