More Electric Car Coverage on HOT RODAre You Ready for Electric Muscle Cars?The Quiet Revolution: Electric Cars in the Hot Rod World A few months back, gearheads Rich Benoit and Steven Salowsky put ...

Toyota may be looking to keep the manual transmission alive in electric vehicles. A series of patent applications spotted by Toyota BZ Forum users describe a way for EV drivers to shift themselves.

Why Would You Want a Manual EV? Electric cars these days typically don't have transmissions, but rather some arrangement of gearsets and differentials yielding a single-speed gear reduction that ...

How the challenges of electric-motor control design can be overcome using digital twins in all design and test phases. How automated testing within a continuous and integrated toolchain is able to ...

EVERY year many thousands of motors are used for driving machinery. Each of these motors requires a controller of some kind. A simple manual starter might suffice for a small fan, but for the control ...

Harley-Davidson has patented a system for operating an electric motor in a two-wheeled vehicle. The method involves detecting control positions, mapping them to driving and braking torques, and ...

The field-oriented control (FOC) approach offers many advantages compared to other control strategies used with electric motors. Among the most significant benefits is the fact that FOC offers precise ...