In-hub motors make this humble Hyundai a monster on ice

In-wheel motors person been astir since the precise opening of electrical motoring. Ferdinand Porsche developed 1 mode backmost successful 1900, and the US sent them to the satellite successful our Lunar Roving Vehicles successful the aboriginal '70s. But, extracurricular of e-bikes, they've ne'er truly gone mainstream. It looked similar Lordstown Motors would beryllium their clip to shine, but that ne'er came to pass.

Lordstown's truck, the Endurance, is now dead, doomed to haunt the ever-growing graveyard of failed EV startups. But the root of its motors, a Slovenian institution called Elaphe, is inactive precise overmuch alive, refining its exertion and installing it into each sorts of absorbing task …

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