Items Tagged with 'electric vehicle 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.

DETROIT— General Motors is temporarily idling its Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit through April 13 as the automaker adjusts production to align with market demand.

AUBURN HILLS, MI—BorgWarner has secured a contract with a major North American automaker to provide an 800-volt secondary integrated drive module.

WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen recently produced its 5 millionth electric drive unit.

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

FRANKFURT—Continental Automotive has developed a sensor that measures the temperature inside permanently excited synchronous motors in electric vehicles.

STOCKHOLM—Engineers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology recently discovered that companies can shave 15 percent off their expenses by remanufacturing and reusing components.

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.

LONDON—A materials research company has used artificial intelligence to develop a new permanent magnet that does not contain rare earth elements.