The concept of an electric motor packaged within the wheel hub of a battery-electric vehicle—instead of positioned conventionally under the hood in place of an internal-combustion engine—is ...

Hyundai is one of the few other OEMs working on hub motors. Its project, called Uni Wheel, envisions a broad range of drive units for uses in EVs and other products, touting the same benefits of ...

A hub drive directly applies torque to the wheel, operating independently of your bike’s gears. A mid-drive motor is instead installed between your pedals and is usually found on more expensive ...

Hyundai and Kia are hoping to move gear reduction into your EV’s wheel hubs with its new Universal Drive System. This technology should help the folks at Hyundai and Kia better package their ...

One other method would be to add a mid-drive electric bicycle conversion kit, such as the popular BBS02, to drive the rear wheel. Then add a front wheel hub motor kit for the front.

We’ve known the EV3 GT was coming for a while, but this is our first glimpse of a prototype testing in the wild. The ...

An alternative is mounting each driven wheel's electric motor to the wheel hub. The Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid used this approach in 1900, but it has been largely eschewed other than by ...

No less visionary was Prof. Porsche’s next idea; in 1900 he combined his battery-powered wheel hub drive with a petrol engine, thus creating the serial hybrid drive principle.

The Uni Wheel looks like it’d come with a major unsprung weight penalty. Any weight a vehicle carries that’s not held up by its suspension (wheels, brakes, and axles) burdens the car ...

This is poignant because air in wheel hubs—hot from road travel—contracts when immersed in -water at the ramp. This creates a vacuum inside the hub that can suck in water and grit. The spring pressure ...