This electric pickup isn't meant to be a Tesla Cybertruck rival, but one to win over commercial fleets with a no-nonsense attitude. On Thursday, Lordstown Motors Corporation revealed its first vehicle ...

They seem like a natural choice for electric vehicles, yet hardly any modern EVs have them. That may be changing soon. Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of ...

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 ...

Hyundai is continuing work on in-wheel hub motors for electric vehicles, two recent patent filings indicate. One filing, published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Nov. 14, ...

BMW has released initial details about the technology of its M models based on the New Class, planned for launch from 2027.

Just about every powertrain configuration has been offered in recent production vehicles except one: the wheel hub motor. It's not been for lack of trying. General Motors early this century tinkered ...

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other ...

Putting electric motors in automobile wheels is not a new idea. Ferdinand Porsche achieved his first fame at age 25 with wheel hub motors in the Lohner-Porsche Electric car exhibited at the Paris ...

The fundamental downside of the wheel hub motor is its unsprung mass on the wheel, which affects the chassis setup, particularly how responsive it is. So far, Honda hasn't revealed any performance ...

In-wheel motors are now a much-discussed topic for performance electric vehicles, but Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche engineering company and father to Ferry Porsche, the founder of the ...