I met with the Safran team at the National Business Aviation Association–Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) event two weeks ago for the introduction of their newly revealed ENGINeUS aviation electric motors. I learned a little more about what the company is doing in the electric aviation world and how it plans to develop its technology for the future of our urban air mobility (UAM) future.
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.
Tesla says the motor and gearbox for the Model 3 have survived 1 million miles of use with little to no signs of wear.
Earlier in the month I posted an essay entitled “A Guy walks into a Chevy Dealership” which annotated the experience of contacting a number of California dealers to get a read on how they were responding to the now-in-production Bolt EV. The surprising-to-some result was that, on balance, the second iteration of a pure electric car from GM is being well received.
Engineers at GE Global Research recently tested a prototype Interior Permanent Magnet traction motor that they believe could help extend the range of electric vehicles and hybrids before recharging or needing fuel. Traction motors are the key ingredient in hybrid and electric vehicles, converting electrical energy into motion. The new … [continued]
