The race to build lighter, more powerful electric motors has just produced a startling new benchmark: an in-wheel drive unit ...

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 ...

There are plenty of firms turning classic cars – including Land Rovers – into EVs, but UK-based Bedeo’s new Land Rover Defender conversion is unusual because it uses in-wheel motors. In-wheel, or ...

Ford has applied for a patent on a solid-axle and hub-motor combination for EVs remarkably similar to what the automaker dismissed as nonviable for its F-150 Lightning pickup truck. As detailed in 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 ...

Ford has filed a patent application for solid axles with integrated hub motors, hinting at a very different kind of EV powertrain from the Blue Oval. Instead of allowing wheels to move up and down ...

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 ...

Waning demand for expensive battery-electric vehicles and tough financial conditions led to the canning of the Maserati MC20 Folgore. But over at Ferrari, the Prancing Horse of Maranello hasn't ...

German supplier Continental says it is close to production for wheel hub motors that integrate braking, whether the customer wants disc or drums, or hydraulic or dry brake-by-wire. Conti will package ...

A wheel hub motor can achieve a 20% increase in efficiency, leading to reduced EV battery size or increased vehicle range. By deploying this motor at scale, automakers could potentially save over US$1 ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Ford's Oakville Assembly Plant will be gutted and the campus reinvented as one of the automaker's largest electric vehicle campuses, making EVs and the battery packs that power them at the Canadian ...