From the Porsche Taycan to the Jaguar I-Pace, and from the Mercedes EQ range to BMW’s Mini E, the world market is about to enjoy a deluge of new electric vehicles.
Analysts and engineers in the sector are obsessed with batteries— the crucial component in an electric vehicle and the biggest constraint on its cost, range and performance. But there is another that counts almost as much: the motor.
“I’ve been in the auto industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen a period of technological innovation like this,” says Kazuya Hayafune, a senior executive at Nidec, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of electric motors. “From about two years ago the interest in traction motors just took off.”
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