25 June 2024 A UK start-up has used AI (artificial intelligence) to design and create a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet material that, it claims, can be produced at… Read More
29 January 2024 A European project has developed an iron silicon powder which can be used to 3D-print components for electric motors. This could increase their efficiencies and… Read More
4 January 2024 A consortium of German organisations, led by Schaeffler, is developing techniques that will allow electric motor components to be re-used at the end of the… Read More
4 September 2023 The German automotive technology supplier ZF has developed an electric motor which needs no magnets but is claimed to deliver a similar performance to permanent-magnet… Read More
8 February 2023 A UK start-up that has developed an AI-based robotic system for sorting rubbish more accurately and twice as fast as rival systems, has won $17m… Read More
15 September 2022 Australian researchers have built a high-speed electric motor that, they claim, is much more robust that other IPMSMs (interior permanent magnet synchronous motors), while using… Read More
9 August 2022 The German engineering plastics specialist igus has developed a plastic ball bearing that unusually combines two materials to make it wear-resistant and dimensionally stable and… Read More
9 September 2021 The car-maker Nissan has tied up with researchers at a Japanese university to develop a process for recovering rare-earth materials from electric motor magnets. They… Read More
6 April 2021 A British start-up motor developer has announced what it claims are the world’s most sustainable motors for electric vehicles (EVs). Advanced Electric Machines’ motors contain… Read More
12 March 2021 The US engineering innovation company Draper is developing a family of electric motors that operate on fundamentally different principles from conventional motors. It says that… Read More
