Items Tagged with 'electric motors'

KANSAS CITY, KS—General Motors will invest $30 million in workforce training at its Fairfax Assembly Plant to support the launch of three new vehicles and expand manufacturing flexibility at the facility.

AACHEN, Germany—Engineers at RWTH Aachen University have launched a three-year R&D project to develop sustainable components for electric vehicle traction motors.

STEYR, Austria—BMW has ramped up electric traction motor production at its power train assembly plant here.

SEOUL—Engineers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed an electric motor that does not use traditional copper coils.

SHOREHAM, England—Ricardo Group engineers have developed an electric traction motor that does not contain any cobalt, copper or rare-earth materials.

MUNICH—BMW AG recently unveiled the sixth generation of its eDrive technology, which will be used in its Neue Klasse electric vehicles.

OSLO, Norway—Engineers at chemical company Elkem ASA have developed an iron-silicon powder that may make it easier to print EV motor components.

SOUTHFIELD, MI—Rapid expansion in the electric traction motor market is on the horizon, driven by growing demand for e-axles and evolving technologies.

STOCKHOLM—Hexagn AB and JSOL Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to to accelerate EV power train design with virtual prototyping and multi-physics simulation.

LONDON—YASA Ltd. has received the Royal Automobile Club’s Dewar Trophy for its axial-flux electric motor, which is smaller and lighter than traditional devices.