Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William covers motorbikes, E-bikes, cars, trucks and mobility tech. With the electric vehicle (EV) market heating up and due to ...

A British company, Yasa, has conjured an electric motor weighing less than a dachshund but packing 738 horsepower. Is it ...

Smart electric motor company Linear Labs has today announced the availability of their HET MM17555 motor, aka The Honey Badger, to anyone regardless of order size. The HET produces twice the torque of ...

Brad Hunstable has a big plan for supplying electric vehicle motors that involves no less than a radical new design for motors, with more than 70 patents. It requires the creation of a high-speed, ...

Electric motors usually comprise a stator and a rotor, with the latter rotating inside the former. Donut Lab thinks this design is outdated, and a hollowed-out rotor can offer important advantages.

Tailored for use with the company's tin-can rotary and linear stepper motors, the NP3775 debuts as a bipolar chopper driver and the NP7380 as a state logic (phase distribution) chip. The NP3775 dual ...

Pneumatic and hydraulic linear actuators operate on pressure differentials; electromechanical actuators are either linear motors or rotary types. Other differences abound. Mark Lemire, Product manager ...

Linear motors are proliferating. They give machines the absolute highest precision and dynamic performance. Linear motors are very quick and precise for positioning, but are also capable of slow, ...

Father-son duo Fred (left) and Brad Hunstable began tinkering with electric motors as a hobby. They've turned that home garage project into Fort Worth-based Linear Labs.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special ...