Back in 2018, Orbis Wheels demonstrated a hub-mounted motor that solved Porsche’s torque-multiplication problem by driving a pinion gear that spun a ring gear on the wheel. We tested Orbis ...

Mercury Avator outboard’s high-torque brushless motor is in the watertight bullet, eliminating power-sapping gear cases and water pumps. Courtesy Mercury Marine The marine-power landscape is changing ...

Electric traction motors can spin at over 10,000 rpm and they feature a reduction mechanism to gear them down. As a simple visualization, the motor’s output shaft is connected to a small cog ...

Patent applications are not the same as product plans but, as Just-Auto has pointed out, Toyota has filed a lot of patents on in-wheel motors in recent years, so it's clearly still at work on them ...