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 ...

A recently-surfaced Ferrari patent application hints at in-wheel motors for future performance road cars. First spotted by CarBuzz a filing published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ...

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, ...

Most electric vehicles on the market have electric motors located between the wheels but a company named Donut Labs has just unveiled an in-wheel motor that could shake up future EVs. This intriguing ...

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 ...

Apart from being electric, the Aptera and Lordstown Endurance have at least something more in common: both use in-wheel motors. That leads us to a third similarity because the same Slovenian company ...

Hyundai and Kia have unveiled a new type of electric drive system that has the potential to free up considerable space in electric vehicles. Called the Universal Wheel Drive System, or Uni Wheel for ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are observing an unprecedented expansion of Nidec in the EV segment. The Japanese electric motor specialist is already supplying drive units for multiple electric car models and now enters the ...

ECM101, authored by ECM's R&D team and CTO Steven Shaw, Ph.D. illustrates how ECM's air-core axial flux motors ...