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In-wheel motors became a reality in a production electric pickup for the blink of an eye—in the Lordstown Endurance. But the technology, also known as wheel-hub motors, hasn't yet been confirmed ...
Porsche also designed an all-wheel drive electric race car named La Toujours Contente (French for "the one who's always happy"), with one 13.8-hp motor powering each wheel. But the engineer's hub ...
But that car had another bit of technology that's coming around again: in-wheel hub motors, which eventually gave rise to the first all-wheel-drive vehicle.
British electric vehicle company BEDEO specializes in turning diesel vans into hybrids thanks to smart in-wheel motor tech. And its latest project—an electric Land Rover Defender conversion ...
The concept of an electric motor packaged within the wheel hub of a battery-electric vehicle—instead of positioned conventionally under the hood in place of an internal-combustion engine—is ...
Having previously designed an electric car in 1898, Porsche designed motors to be integrated with the front wheel hubs of a vehicle built by the Austrian firm Jacob Lohner & Co. in a period of ...
According to developer DeepDrive, a wheel hub motor could lead to EVs reaching over 500 miles on a single charge, along with ...
There are plenty of firms turning classic cars – including Land Rovers – into EVs, but UK-based Bedeo’s new Land Rover Defender conversion is unusual because it uses in-wheel motors. In ...
DeepDrive touts improved efficiency, allowing an electric vehicle to drive over 500 miles (800 km) on a charge. DeepDrive's website lists three variants of the wheel-hub motor, with power levels ...
Regardless of the motor design and count, it's clear that Ferrari will not make any significant compromises with the brand's first battery-electric vehicle in regard to handling.
Similar to an in-hub motor, the universal wheel drive system relocates certain drive components required by an electric car inside the wheel.