In-wheel hub motors have been experimented with since 1900, when 24-year-old Ferdinand Porsche developed an electric car for Jacob Lohner & Co. This car was driven by front wheel-hub motors ...
whose son Ferry would later start the sports-car brand, tinkered with electric motors—including in-wheel hub motors. The first electric-vehicle boom occurred at the turn of the 20th century ...
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 ...
In-wheel motor technology has been considered too expensive, under-powered and too bulky for mass-produced cars, seeing as a huge amount of weight is essentially positioned in an area (the wheels ...
As for four-wheeled cars, Zap tried but it looks like PML ... We have since partnered up with a company in China with rights to their wheel hub motors. The significance is that the wheel hub ...