25 June 2025 ABB has announced a variable-speed motor that combines an high-efficiency permanent magnet (PM) motor with a VSD (variable-speed drive) in a compact, customisable, plug-and-play… Read More
12 June 2025 Korean engineers have built and operated a lightweight electric motor that uses carbon nanotubes (CNTs) instead of traditional copper windings. Until now, metals such… Read More
9 June 2025 The wider use of technologies such as high-efficiency motors and VSDs (variable-speed drives) could cut global energy consumption by up to 10%, without needing to… Read More
6 June 2025 Continental Automotive has developed a technology that directly measures the temperature of rotors in permanently excited synchronous motors “for the first time”. It says… Read More
3 June 2025 A company that specialises in cutting energy costs for users of large motors has secured £20m of investment from UK-based Pears Partnership Capital to accelerate… Read More
28 May 2025 ABB claims to have broken its own world record for the energy efficiency of large synchronous electric motors with a new machine destined for… Read More
15 May 2025 The UK axial-flux motor developer, Yasa, has opened a £12m manufacturing facility in Yarnton, near Oxford, with the capacity to produce more than 25,000… Read More
9 May 2025 The American subsidiary of the Chinese motor-maker Wolong has announced a ferrite-assisted synchronous reluctance motor with an integrated drive, designed for high efficiency, robust… Read More
24 April 2025 A UK-developed thermal imaging telescope due to be launched next year will open up new ways to combat global warming and increase building efficiencies. A… Read More
17 April 2025 The German drive and automation specialist SEW-Eurodrive has formed a strategic partnership with the motion technology company Schaeffler to expand their digital services. Read More
