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An electric bicycle—it's a regular bicycle, but with a motor on it! There are enough moving pieces on these personal mobility vehicles to make buying one confusing. Even if you're pretty sure you know ...

Electric propulsion is not just another powertrain option, it is a fundamentally different way to turn energy into motion ...

Electrical motors consume more than half of the world’s electricity — Japanese engineering experts are helping reduce the environmental impact of these and other technologies. Electric motors help to ...

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Axial flux motors have really started to make some noise in the electric mobility market of late. Adding to the hype, British market innovator YASA announced that it's opening a state-of-the-art ...

Any enthusiast will be able to tell you the seat-of-the-pants characteristics of their favorite engine. The torque-peakiness of an Eighties turbo car, the endless rev-hungry climb of a naturally ...

One of electric vehicles’ biggest problems is their battery pack. It is big, heavy and expensive, and its materials are sourced from distant parts of the globe, leaving a big carbon footprint. That’s ...

Growing up in Southwest Harbor, Lia Morris spent her childhood surrounded by boats. It was inevitable. She had a boatyard in her backyard, because her father, Tom Morris, was a boatbuilder and the ...

British electric drive specialist Helix builds some of the most power-dense electric motors in the world. Now it's working to springboard that compact, power-packed design into a marine drive ...

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 ...