Electric motors are easy to make; remember those experiments with wire-wrapped nails? But what’s easy to make is often hard to engineer, and making a motor that’s small, light, and powerful can be ...

F. R. HAIGH has recently compared the relative advantages of magneto and coil ignition used for generating the explosions which occur in motor-car engines (Students' Quart. J. Inst. Elec. Eng., Dec.).

Earlier this month, we heard about the development partnership between the well-known Zero Motorcycles and Vancouver, BC-based Exro Technologies, which works on how to improve electric motors in ...

Reducing the weight of transportation like electric vehicles, drones, and spacecraft can lower energy consumption and improve battery efficiency. A key material that enables this lightweighting has ...

Today a lot of street-legal vehicles and off-road rigs run modern coil spring suspensions. Coil springs in their various formats have a number of advantages over traditional leaf springs and torsion ...

The forefathers of speed could only dream of street cars that were both reliable and capable of 800 hp or more—funny thing is, these days it is commonplace. We can thank technology’s rapid advance ...

Despite the best efforts of the RepRap community over the last twenty years, self-replicating 3D printers have remained a stubbornly elusive goal, largely due to the difficulty of printing electronics ...