Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of the earliest electric cars back in 1900, which later added a gas engine to compensate for its primitive lead batteries.

TOKYO — In-wheel motors are a long-standing dream for electric vehicles. They hold the potential to transform car design by moving motor hardware to the wheels, freeing up valuable real estate for ...

Here we go again… Just when you thought the world of electric vehicles had reached a plateau of soul-crushingly silent speed, along comes some brilliant, slightly mad engineers from a company called ...

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 ...

The race to build lighter, more powerful electric motors has just produced a startling new benchmark: an in-wheel drive unit that delivers 1,000 hp per corner in a package small enough to disappear ...

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 ...

Italdesign Quintessenza concept car suggests in-wheel quad-motor future topping 2,000 hp Elaphe's new in-wheel motors can be used in high-performance hybrids or EVs It can deliver a continuous 268 hp ...

As with internal-combustion vehicles, the advantages of all-wheel drive for electric vehicles have been obvious from the start as has been the potential to provide multiple motors, ideally one for ...

British-founded company ProteanDrive partnered with Chinese car manufacturer Dongfeng Motor and Weifu Group to unveil not one, but two mass-production cars with in-wheel motors. Well, the ...

Look out, Koenigsegg, there might be a new king of the electric motor hill. British electric vehicle technology brand Donut Lab has a new EV motor deliciously named the “Donut Motor,” and it packs 856 ...