They seem like a natural choice for electric vehicles, yet hardly any modern EVs have them. That may be changing soon.

There is no transmission. No extra pieces. The motor directly drives the wheel inside the wheel. By doing so, hub motors simplify vehicle architecture and reduce drivetrain losses. Yet adoption of ...

In-wheel motors are on the verge of real applications. That’s a terrible pun: The Verge motorcycle has one. It looks dramatic ...

Typical motors run the rotor either outside or inside the stator ... camouflaged Neue Klasse coupe with four hub motors was snapped while testing. Details are non-existent, as is to be expected ...

Instead, the car had what appeared to be individual hub-mounted electric motors. Incidentally, this test mule was caught in action a little over one year after BMW made a $16.1M investment into a ...

Porsche raced electric hub motors 127 years ago ... By also employing a small brake caliper engaging the inside of a larger-diameter, thinner, wheel-mounted rotor, weight savings in the brake ...

The motors tend to be hub- or mid-drive systems with visible ... Installed on a tiny Arduino, it fits inside the bike’s downtube to keep the stealthy look and can get the bike comfortably ...

One such system currently in the works is an e-bike hub motor that includes a three-speed transmission inside the hub. It will essentially become the marriage of a hub motor and an internally ...

So, why would an e-bike need two motors to begin with? Well, that’s up to you as the user to decide. Nevertheless, the Scout Pro gets two 750-watt hub motors (one on either wheel) for a combined ...