Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of the earliest electric cars back in 1900, which later added a gas engine to compensate for its primitive lead batteries.

WATT had previously developed the Passenger and Commercial EV Skateboard (PACES), a lightweight aluminum platform for ...

There are plenty of firms turning classic cars – including Land Rovers – into EVs, but UK-based Bedeo’s new Land Rover Defender conversion is unusual because it uses in-wheel motors. In-wheel, or ...

Electric performance is about to be rewritten by a motor that does two jobs at once. Instead of relying on heavy rear brake ...

In-wheel motors became a reality in a production electric pickup for the blink of an eye—in the Lordstown Endurance. But the technology, also known as wheel-hub motors, hasn't yet been confirmed as ...

Donut Lab, which unveiled a family of in-wheel electric motors at CES 2025, has spent almost a decade searching for one of the holy grails of the EV industry: in-wheel motors that actually work. These ...

Normally, you wouldn’t expect to find a Lordstown Endurance electric pickup in rural Slovenia—or, for that matter, anywhere at all. So it felt like a borderline fever dream hustling two of the world’s ...

Waning demand for expensive battery-electric vehicles and tough financial conditions led to the canning of the Maserati MC20 Folgore. But over at Ferrari, the Prancing Horse of Maranello hasn't ...

This electric powertrain company out of England is putting together the most power-dense electric motors in the automotive ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...