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 ...

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 ...

We tested Elaphe’s in-wheel hub-motor tech in a Hyundai Ioniq 5 on a frozen lake.

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 ...

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, ...

Porsche built its reputation with internal-combustion sports cars, but at the turn of the 20th century Ferdinand Porsche, whose son Ferry would later start the sports-car brand, tinkered with electric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dynamic and versatile electric vehicle (EV) with innovative high-performance in-wheel motors has been previewed at CES 2025.

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 ...

Electric motors usually comprise a stator and a rotor, with the latter rotating inside the former. Donut Lab thinks this design is outdated, and a hollowed-out rotor can offer important advantages.

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 ...

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 ...

The rise to power of the electric powertrain had a curious side effect in the automotive industry: it gave people with a passion for classic vehicles a new means of upgrading these rides in a much ...