The white Vauxhall Vivaro van, its diesel engine rumbling, groans to a stop at a suburban Detroit stoplight. Tom Prucha, Protean Electric’s engineering executive, is behind the wheel. Protean makes in ...

In-wheel motors are now a much-discussed topic for performance electric vehicles, but Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche engineering company and father to Ferry Porsche, the founder of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electric motor manufacturer Donut Lab has shown off its latest innovation at CES 2025. The company's second-generation in-wheel ...

Hyundai is continuing work on in-wheel hub motors for electric vehicles, two recent patent filings indicate. One filing, published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Nov. 14, ...

The future of electric car design might be about to undergo a radical transformation if the creator of the world’s first-ever in-wheel motor is right about its invention. At CES 2025, electric motor ...

A recently-surfaced Ferrari patent application hints at in-wheel motors for future performance road cars. First spotted by CarBuzz a filing published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

Yasa’s record-breaking, insanely powerful axial flux motor made is now being tested for in-wheel powertrains. UK-based Yasa has revealed a potentially game-changing in-wheel electric motor. Based on ...

Italdesign Quintessenza concept car suggests in-wheel quad-motor future topping 2,000 hp Elaphe's new in-wheel motors can be used in high-performance hybrids or EVs It can deliver a continuous 268 hp ...

A wheel hub motor can achieve a 20% increase in efficiency, leading to reduced EV battery size or increased vehicle range. By deploying this motor at scale, automakers could potentially save over US$1 ...

We are observing an unprecedented expansion of Nidec in the EV segment. The Japanese electric motor specialist is already supplying drive units for multiple electric car models and now enters the ...

Aptera already has 25,000 reservations for its solar trike, which keeps growing. This is what made us believe that Elaphe would make its in-wheel motors in the U.S. right from the production start.

In 1900, Ferdinand Porsche and Ludwig Lohner unveiled an electric car with battery-powered motors attached to its front wheels. It was seen as a sensation, but the technology never took off as petrol ...