James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled "Screw bike." ...

Companies are still working to get in-wheel motors into mass-market vehicles, yet Porsche has been working on them for over ...

Donut Lab recently showcased the next generation of its in-wheel motor technology that has the potential to change the EV ...

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 ...

And with new technologies, from 3D printing to in-wheel motors (IWMs) that allow a car to spin on the spot, electric motors could be grabbing more of the limelight. Getty Images Improvements in ...

Looks like electric longboards are becoming a thing, with increasingly complex electronics going into them to squeeze as much performance as possible out of them. When an electric longboard ...

These motors were intended for use with lead-acid batteries—typical of the time—that provided a claimed range of up to 31 miles. Porsche also designed an all-wheel drive electric race car ...

It was first unveiled last April at the 2024 Beijing auto show, but at CES Italdesign presented a version equipped with in-wheel electric motors from Elaphe, a Slovenian company that previously ...

Most modern electric vehicles use an electric motor that powers either the front or rear axle – or both, if it is equipped with all-wheel-drive and two motors. This works perfectly fine ...