Massive German automotive supplier ZF has introduced a new permanent magnet-based drive unit for electric vehicles. Called the EVSys800, the compact, 163-pound assembly consists of a single radial ...

We like weird new engineering ideas here at Ars, and today we have a particularly interesting one in the realm of electric cars. It’s called the Uni Wheel, and it has been designed by Hyundai and Kia ...

The race to build lighter, more powerful electric motors has just produced a startling new benchmark: an in-wheel drive unit that delivers 1,000 hp per corner in a package small enough to disappear ...

A hubless, axial-flux, in-wheel drive debuted at CES 2026, promising 95% efficiency, torque vectoring, 4WS, and major packaging advantages with net-zero change in unsprung ...

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) Nov. 14, ...

With the BMW Neue Klasse having shown the future direction of the BMW 3 Series, the high-performance M equivalent is set to ...

The future of electric car design might be about to undergo a radical transformation if the creator of the world's first-ever in-wheel motor is right about its invention. At CES 2025, electric motor ...

Aston Martin, the British ultra-luxury carmaker that gave the world several James Bond cars, is preparing for an all-electric future, having pledged to transform its core range of vehicles into ...