Today, most electric machines operate with radial flux (RF). Magnax offers a new concept, though—a machine that operates with axial flux (AF). Figure 1 provides a comparison of the RF and AF ...

Tesla was first to patent a primitive axial-flux electric motor—Nikola Tesla, that is, way back in 1889. It would be 126 years before the concept found its way to a car, the 1,500-horsepower (1,103 ...

Mercedes-Benz provided a flight from DC to San Diego and a return from Los Angeles, plus four nights’ hotels so we could meet the Vision One-Eleven as well as drive a new Mercedes-AMG plug-in hybrid ...

This Mercedes-Benz Vision One-Eleven design study shows that outlandish sports car styling can exist in an era of battery-electric powertrains. The Vision One-Eleven uses an axial-flux motor made by ...

Axial flux motors like this Yasa P400 series can be integrated with combustion engines for hybrids or used alone for EVs. It was used to power the Jaguar C-X75 concept and the Koenigsegg Regera. It’s ...

Mercedes-Benz is developing a new sports car platform for high-performance AMG electric models. To do that, instead of creating horsepower and torque, the electric vehicle formula required a new level ...