British electric vehicle company BEDEO specializes in turning diesel vans into hybrids thanks to smart in-wheel motor tech. And its latest project—an electric Land Rover Defender conversion—could see ...

There are plenty of firms turning classic cars – including Land Rovers – into EVs, but UK-based Bedeo’s new Land Rover Defender conversion is unusual because it uses in-wheel motors. In-wheel, or ...

Porsche raced hub motors 127 years ago. Now Orbis offers the torque, cost, and unsprung weight that may finally move motors back out to our wheels. Nineteenth-century electric cars were as likely to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Finnish startup Donut Lab has secured €25mn in seed funding to scale up its in-wheel hub motors for electric land, sea, and air vehicles. Alongside the investment, Donut Lab is opening an R&D hub in ...

Donut Lab, which unveiled a family of in-wheel electric motors at CES 2025, has spent almost a decade searching for one of the holy grails of the EV industry: in-wheel motors that actually work. These ...

Lots of people judging this for on-road performance. Where this is really interesting is off-road, especially slow stuff as opposed to a pseudo trophy truck. Unsprung weight is not a big deal there, ...