They seem like a natural choice for electric vehicles, yet hardly any modern EVs have them. That may be changing soon. Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of ...

British electric vehicle company BEDEO specializes in turning diesel vans into hybrids thanks to smart in-wheel motor tech. And its latest project—an electric Land Rover Defender conversion—could see ...

Porsche built its reputation with internal-combustion sports cars, but at the turn of the 20th century Ferdinand Porsche, whose son Ferry would later start the sports-car brand, tinkered with electric ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In-wheel motors have been around since the very beginning of electric motoring. Ferdinand Porsche developed one ...

Forget fiddling with derailleurs and gear levers mid-commute. Instead, Bafang wants to make urban e‑biking smoother than ever with its all-new H730 hub motor, featuring its patented GVT (Gear Variable ...

Something of an automotive phenom, Munich startup DeepDrive is hard at work on a more practical, mass production-ready in-wheel electric motor. Its unique radial flux motor concept uses a dual-rotor ...

Five years ago, Verge made headlines with its TS electric motorbike. Not only did this two-wheeler have an incredibly cool-looking, hubless rear motor, but this engine also delivered as much torque as ...

Waning demand for expensive battery-electric vehicles and tough financial conditions led to the canning of the Maserati MC20 Folgore. But over at Ferrari, the Prancing Horse of Maranello hasn't ...

In-wheel motors are now a much-discussed topic for performance electric vehicles, but Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche engineering company and father to Ferry Porsche, the founder of the ...

A new electric hub motor just dropped at Eurobike 2025, and it’s a big deal – mainly because it’s so small. Developed through a partnership between Moving Magnet Technologies (MMT), Swiss mechatronics ...