Hub motors would also make sense in an urban delivery vehicle, where they could allow for even more cargo room within a set track width and wheelbase. Since you can get rid of a conventional axle ...

The concept of an electric motor packaged within the wheel hub of a battery-electric vehicle—instead of positioned conventionally under the hood in place of an internal-combustion engine—is ...

On the powertrain side, we can imagine delivering a kind of skateboard that includes the battery and wheel hub motors. Then, we are even more than a Tier 0.5 supplier.

Ford Motor and Schaeffler have demonstrated the Fiesta-based eWheelDrive car, a driveable research vehicle that could lead to improvements in urban mobility and parking by making possible smaller ...

Because a wheel hub motor is mounted outside the springs on the suspension system, the weight affects steering, handling and braking. "Our approach is a little bit different," Gotovac said. "We ...

But the technology, also known as wheel-hub motors, hasn't yet been confirmed as production-bound for any other U.S. passenger vehicle or personal-use truck. That could change in the future.

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, could ...