With a cleverly designed rear-wheel hub motor, the Smart Ped electric scooter gives you a boost on the urban commute. Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and ...

Future Mini EVs will switch to the BMW Neue Klasse platform. BMW created the Neue Klasse architecture with either rear- or all-wheel drive in mind. No cheaper front-wheel-drive version of the platform ...

German supplier Continental says it is close to production for wheel hub motors that integrate braking, whether the customer wants disc or drums, or hydraulic or dry brake-by-wire. Conti will package ...

Mini could be gearing up for a major shift to rear-wheel drive for its next-generation EVs, thanks to shared platforms with BMW. Although nothing is officially confirmed yet, BMW’s upcoming Neue ...

In-hub wheel motors are among the most tantalizing and yet elusive of electric-vehicle technologies. And now, after decades of failures and near-misses, a donut-shaped electric hub motor was among the ...

Electric motors are round. Wheels are round. It's a pretty natural impulse to combine the two. No lesser automotive luminary than Dr. Ferdinand Porsche did it first, inventing the wheel-hub motor in ...

German supplier Continental says it is close to production for wheel hub motors that integrate braking, whether the customer ...