• Induction motors employing copper rotors can be smaller than equivalent versions with aluminum rotors. • Copper rotors exhibit lower losses than aluminum which lets them run cooler and be more ...

Some things are just self-evident. You need oxygen to live, deep-dish pizza is an Italian-themed casserole, drivers that block the fast lane are deserving of special scorn, and electric motors require ...

German supplier ZF already manufactures electric drive motors for various manufacturers, including the one in the Porsche Taycan. Now it's trying to out-Lucid the trendiest EV startup companies with a ...

Electric dc brush motors have traditionally used wire-wound armatures that move through a magnetic-flux air gap. Engineers at ThinGap Motor Technologies, Santa Barbara (www.thingap.com), have come up ...

Driven by the growth prospects of vehicle electrification in China and Europe, the sales volume of global electric vehicles has reached 3.2 million units in 2017, with an annual growth rate of 55%.