Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It's a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it first, inventing the wheel-hub motor in ...

Let's do a memory exercise together and remember what specs Chevrolet provided for their alien FNR concept shown during Auto Shanghai 2015. That's right, it had magnetic hubless wheel electric motors ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ferrari has filed a patent application for in-wheel electric motors. While such technology isn't knew, Ferrari in its patent claims to have a more simplified design. The patent application was first ...

Antony Ingram April 16, 2013 Comment Now! The benefits for dedicating an electric motor to each wheel of a vehicle were clear to see in Drive's recent video of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive ...

Here’s a story that’ll make you feel proud to be British. Oxfordshire-based electric motor manufacturer YASA recently broke an unofficial world record for the power density of – you guessed it – an ...