Ferdinand Porsche, it seems, was always ahead of the curve. He conceived one of the earliest electric cars back in 1900, which later added a gas engine to compensate for its primitive lead batteries.

The race to build lighter, more powerful electric motors has just produced a startling new benchmark: an in-wheel drive unit that delivers 1,000 hp per corner in a package small enough to disappear ...

New in-wheel motor systems modify the hub of each electric-vehicle (EV) wheel by adding a complete drivetrain that supplies torque to its associated tire (Fig. 1). Also included with these in-wheel ...