High-Output Electric Motor For Cars

Via Slashdot, a Welsh team has designed a high-output electric motor for cars that can supposedly compete with Ferraris.

The motor is revolutionary in that it contains no bulky permanent magnets.

Instead it relies on transmitting electric pulses across up to seven rotors, arranged in different phases. These are "fired up" in turn, much like the pistons of an internal combustion engine.

There are no gears - the motor provides enough torque at one revolution per minute to put a vehicle into motion - and it spins at up to 2,500rpm.

"Size for size, we can provide 400% more torque than any type of motor currently available," says managing director John Bryant.

Now if they could only create an extension cord as long as the I-5...