The white Vauxhall Vivaro van, its diesel engine rumbling, groans to a stop at a suburban Detroit stoplight. Tom Prucha, Protean Electric’s engineering executive, is behind the wheel. Protean makes in ...

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, ...

A 500-horsepower, front-engined, rear-drive American pony car on ice without tire studs sounds like a real handful, a delicate dance requiring saintly levels of self-restraint and finesse. I’m a ...

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 ...

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 ...

In-wheel motors are now a much-discussed topic for performance electric vehicles, but Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche engineering company and father to Ferry Porsche, the founder of the ...

Professor Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a multi-faceted individual whose expertise spans the worlds of library and information science, environmental advocacy, and – perhaps surprisingly – the automotive ...

Slovenia's Elaphe is emphasizing performance applications for its in-wheel electric motors. At CES 2025, the company unveiled the Sonic 1, a thin electric motor it claims is compatible with ...

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 ...