New Electric Vehicle Magnet Attracts GM With Rare Earth-Free Formula
A new permanent magnet for electric vehicles will help free the US automotive supply chain from expensive rare earths and overseas sources.
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What Makes Your Tesla Model 3 Or Model Y Go (Video)
Tired of hearing about business deals, “stonks,” and the personal life of Elon Musk? Me, too (hopefully it’s not just me). While those things can be important at times, that’s the kind of stuff bean counters love. Me? I’m an old-school car girl. While the bankers and accountants among us … [continued]
Megawatt Electrical Motor Designed By MIT Engineers Could Help Electrify Aviation
Aviation’s huge carbon footprint could shrink significantly with electrification. To date, however, only small all-electric planes have gotten off the ground. Their electric motors generate hundreds of kilowatts of power. To electrify larger, heavier jets, such as commercial airliners, megawatt-scale motors are required. These would be propelled by hybrid or … [continued]
EV Motor Control 101
Editor’s Note: The team at Mountain Pass Performance are doing some truly cutting edge work and research on EV motor controls. They put together a comprehensive post on EV motors with some help from Chris Brune at Rinehart Motion Systems and were nice enough to let us repost it here.
EV 101 (Video)
Originally published on EV Obsession. To kick of the presentations at the 1st annual EV Transportation & Technology Summit, Doug Kettles provided an introductory presentation (“EV 101” is what I’d call it) that covered many aspects of EVs. He discussed different types of EVs (pure EVs vs plug-in hybrid EVs, for … [continued]
Electric Drive Motor Revenue To Surpass $2.8 Billion (Or Much More) Annually By 2020
A new study from Navigant Research (formerly known as Pike Research) concludes that the worldwide sales of electric drive motors will grow from $965 million in 2013 to more than $2.8 billion by 2020. The conclusion comes from the growing electric vehicle market and the use of electric motors in 100% electric … [continued]
17 ARPA-E Projects Have Pulled In $450 Million In Private Funding
The U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) this week announced that 17 projects it has helped jump-start have “demonstrated major technical successes and shown significant market engagement” in the past 4 years. Putting a dollar figure on that, the 17 projects “have attracted over $450 million in private sector … [continued]
