Earlier this month, BMW was spotted testing a new all-electric sports coupe at the company's R&D base in Bavaria. This car is reportedly based on the company's fresh Neue Klasse platform, which was ...

Porsche built its reputation with internal-combustion sports cars, but at the turn of the 20th century Ferdinand Porsche, whose son Ferry would later start the sports-car brand, tinkered with electric ...

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, ...

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a multi-faceted individual whose expertise spans the worlds of library and information science, environmental advocacy, and – perhaps surprisingly – the automotive ...

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 ...

Donut Lab, which unveiled a family of in-wheel electric motors at CES 2025, has spent almost a decade searching for one of the holy grails of the EV industry: in-wheel motors that actually work. These ...

Electric motors usually comprise a stator and a rotor, with the latter rotating inside the former. Donut Lab thinks this design is outdated, and a hollowed-out rotor can offer important advantages.

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 ...

KGM Motors has just brought the Musso EV pickup truck in the United Kingdom. It comes with 204 horsepower, all-wheel drive, and 240 miles of range ...

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 ...

Electric vehicles boast immense, instantaneous torque, but the performance often comes with a weight penalty. Automakers and startups have already started addressing the issue with more compact and ...

Another company has surfaced with an electric conversion for the original Defender, but there's a difference this time. U.K.-based Bedeo's electric Defender uses in-wheel motors, which Bedeo has ...