Aptera Motors, a company that famously collapsed in 2011, is re-emerging as a serious contender in the EV space. Its radical, ...

A dynamic and versatile electric vehicle (EV) with innovative high-performance in-wheel motors has been previewed at CES 2025. Quintessenza, developed by Italian design firm Italdesign, features ...

They seem like a natural choice for electric vehicles, yet hardly any modern EVs have them. That may be changing soon. Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of ...

Porsche raced hub motors 127 years ago. Now Orbis offers the torque, cost, and unsprung weight that may finally move motors back out to our wheels. Nineteenth-century electric cars were as likely to ...

Love the smooth power output and instant torque on your EV? This is how automakers tune their electric motors to deliver just ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. KAWANSHI-CITY, Japan, July 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite predictions of continued market growth, there are still ...

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—could see ...

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 motor manufacturer Donut Lab has shown off its latest innovation at CES 2025. The company's second-generation in-wheel drive units could drastically alter the way electric vehicles are ...

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 ...

That much unsprung weight seriously degrades a vehicle’s ride quality and dynamic handling while adding considerable cost, and motors at the wheels experience way more shock, vibration, and risk of ...