We will have the capability to directly supply our motors at lower volume levels, while providing licenses to our higher volume customers and partners." Protean's In-wheel Electric-drive Solution ...

Each motor weighs just 68 pounds and, paired with a gas engine, can boost fuel economy by as much as 30 percent. DETROIT -- Protean Electric, the global leader of advanced in-wheel electric drive ...

Recently, Protean Electric – a developer of in-wheel motors – had also unveiled a new suite of products built on its Gen 5 ...

But some companies are working on a radical redesign, placing motors in the wheels themselves. According to Chris Hilton, CTO of Protean Electric, in-wheel motors improve handling because the ...

It’s no surprise that in-wheel motor (IWM) technology is developing ... the new ‘Pd18’ Generation 5 IWM by UK-based Protean Electric. Protean has now concluded testing and reckons it ...

A company about to put 39kg electric motors into wheels has concluded, thanks to a study by Lotus Engineering, that unsprung ...

With its 6Ah battery, it runs for up to three hours on a full charge—a little less than average. Its six-cubic-foot tray is ...

In a 4WD EV, an electric motor is mounted along each axle and drives the wheels directly with just one – or two in some performance models – step-down gearing. A differential is part of the ...

Andrew Whitehead, CEO of in-wheel motor manufacturer Protean Electric, reckons the UK automotive manufacturing industry has the potential to grow, but doesn’t seem to want to encourage anything ...

Compared to their manual counterparts, electric wheelchairs are far less demanding to operate, as the user doesn’t need to have upper body strength normally required to turn the wheels.

But in the case of the FPV rover [Proto G] has been working on, his choice of motors is only part of the story. The real interesting bit is the 3D printed omnidirectional Mecanum wheels he’s ...