General Motors hopes to boost the power and performance of light trucks while simultaneously improving fuel economy and reducing vehicle weight through a new piece of technology: wheel hub motors. At ...

At the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technology expo in Hannover yesterday, Elaphe presented the latest generation of its monster in-wheel electric hub motors, which can now smash out as much as 1,500 ...

Porsche raced hub motors 127 years ago. Now Orbis offers the torque, cost, and unsprung weight that may finally move motors back out to our wheels. Nineteenth-century electric cars were as likely to ...

Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It's a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it first, inventing the wheel-hub motor in ...

New in-wheel motor systems modify the hub of each electric-vehicle (EV) wheel by adding a complete drivetrain that supplies torque to its associated tire (Fig. 1). Also included with these in-wheel ...

Donut Lab, which unveiled a family of in-wheel electric motors at CES 2025, has spent almost a decade searching for one of the holy grails of the EV industry: in-wheel motors that actually work. These ...

Putting electric motors in automobile wheels is not a new idea. Ferdinand Porsche achieved his first fame at age 25 with wheel hub motors in the Lohner-Porsche Electric car exhibited at the Paris ...

Mazda was granted a new U.S. patent this week for the design of an offset wheel-mounted motor for electric and hybrid vehicles. In previous wheel/hub motor configurations, the motor has typically been ...

Just about every powertrain configuration has been offered in recent production vehicles except one: the wheel hub motor. It's not been for lack of trying. General Motors early this century tinkered ...

Earlier this month, BMW was spotted testing a new all-electric sports coupe at the company's R&D base in Bavaria. This car is reportedly based on the company's fresh Neue Klasse platform, which was ...