Tesla was first to patent a primitive axial-flux electric motor—Nikola Tesla, that is, way back in 1889. It would be 126 ...

Tesla and General Motors have adopted distinct cooling strategies for their electric motors, reflecting their unique engineering philosophies. Tesla integrates oil cooling directly into the motor ...

Tesla is now upgrading the Cybertruck’s electric motor with a more “efficient and reliable” motor. Tesla has started to contact some early Cybertruck owners to tell them that they will change their ...

Munro & Associates tear down a pair of electric motors from General Motors and Tesla. What their engineers found are two completely different approaches to cooling. One prioritizes simplicity, while ...

Tesla no longer stands above other electric vehicles in quality because head-scratching design changes on its cars, such as removing turn-signal stalks, have frustrated its owners and lowered its ...

Up until now you’ve heard a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric about the 2024 Tesla Cybertruck, some of which masqueraded as independent opinion. But Elon Musk & Co. have tightly controlled the narrative, ...

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 ...