Electric farm equipment is gaining ground as electric motors power tractors, UTVs and forklifts with lower maintenance, ...

For a lot of electrical and mechanical machines, there are nominal and peak ratings for energy output or input. If you’re in marketing or advertising, you’ll typically look at the peak rating and move ...

A new chapter in electric motor design may be underway, and it’s being written in the UK. Yasa Motors, based in Britain and owned by Mercedes, has developed a new electric motor that sets a new ...

Yasa’s axial flux motor set an unofficial record for the highest power-to-weight ratio. During testing, the slim drive unit delivered over 700 horsepower while tipping the scales at just 28.8 pounds ...

Lightweight motor breakthrough signals major leap in EV performance and efficiency with scalable design aimed beyond ...

We’ve long-admired internal combustion engines for their power density pursuits. Extremely high horsepower-to-liter ratios for naturally aspirated cars like the Honda S2000, Ferrari 458 Speciale, or, ...

The axial flux electric motor pioneers at YASA are at it again. Just three months after sending tremors through the electric motor market with an unofficial world-record power density that absolutely ...

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 ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

An introduction to the symmetric, multiphase, wound-rotor “synchronous” doubly-fed motor or generator system, called SYNCHRO-SYM. How SYNCHRO-SYM is only possible with brushless, automatic, ...

As extreme weather events lead to more power outages, the carmaker said it would equip all its electric vehicles to act as sources of emergency power. By Jack Ewing General Motors said Tuesday that it ...