The race to build lighter, more powerful electric motors has just produced a startling new benchmark: an in-wheel drive unit ...

Compromise is key to keeping a team humming along. Say one person wants an inrunner electric motor, and the other prefers outrunner. What to do? Well, if you work at [Deep Drive], the compromise ...

Get punchy torque without extra mass. This double-rotor motor peaks at 180 kW and pairs with in-wheel or central drive ...

After smashing its own (unofficial) record in power density with its proprietary axial flux motor, YASA has adapted it into ...

YASA is testing in-wheel axial flux motors that make big power, reduce overall weight, and eliminate the need for big rear brakes.

The Mercedes-Benz patent doesn't define the two different battery chemistries, instead leaving that part open. It's more about the idea here, which is that one battery pack has essentially two ...

Tesla was first to patent a primitive axial-flux electric motor—Nikola Tesla, that is, way back in 1889. It would be 126 years before the concept found its way to a car, the 1,500-horsepower (1,103 ...

The Mercedes-Benz Vision One-Eleven prototype hints at what to expect from future electric performance cars from the company, including an axial-flux motor and new battery system that features ...