31 May 2026 A 0.2% improvement in the efficiency of large synchronous motors and generators could deliver electricity cost savings of $9.5–12bn and avoid 60–75 million tonnes of… Read More
10 March 2026 A London-headquartered developer of low-emission powertrains has announced an electric motor that uses thin sheets of amorphous (non-crystalline) steel alloy for its stator, resulting in… Read More
25 November 2025 B&R, ABB’s Machine Automation Division, has announced a new servodrive that, it says, redefines high-performance motion control for modern manufacturing. The Acopos M4 drive… Read More
12 November 2025 The Japanese pumps, blowers and compressors manufacturer Ebara is buying Mitsubishi Electric’s three-phase motors business for an undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi now plans to… Read More
15 April 2025 A US motor developer called Conifer has raised $20m in seed funding to commercialise its “magnet-agnostic” axial-flux motor and powertrain technologies, including a proprietary… Read More
5 February 2025 Evolito, a UK developer of axial-flux electric motors, is supplying motors to Flying Whales, a French aerospace start-up, to propel an airship capable… Read More
31 January 2025 Samotics, the Dutch electrical data analytics company, has signed a €20m financing agreement with the European Investment Bank to boost its R&D activities and… Read More
11 December 2024 ABB has joined forces with Microsoft to launch a generative AI tool that helps industrial users to improve efficiency, productivity and sustainability by contextualising… Read More
12 November 2024 At the SPS show in Germany, the automation supplier Lenze has unveiled an integrated motor-drive system which, it claims, achieves energy efficiency to IE5… Read More
10 June 2024 ABB claims to be the first motor manufacturer to have achieved IE6 levels of efficiency from a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) motor without needing… Read More
