Linear Labs is out to reinvent the electric motor

Electric vehicles have become an extremely common sight for many people. Whether it’s seeing a shiny new Tesla lower the road, or hopping on a light rail train or renting a power scooter to get from that train to your house, EVs are everywhere.

One problem with electric motors is that because of the speeds of which they rotate, to become useful in most vehicles, they need a gear reduction device. I’d contact it a tranny, but generally, these gearboxes only have one swiftness. This takes the 10,000 rpm from a drive electric motor and reduces the velocity at the wheels while multiplying torque.

What if there were a electric motor that didn’t have to spin as fast as that to create enough usable power and torque to operate a vehicle a car? If that existed, you could modify all kinds of reasons for having electric car design. In the event that you didn’t require a gearbox, you would save a good-size chunk of gear reduction motor weight and, probably a lot more crucially, space.

With that space, you could raise the size of your battery power, and with the reduced weight, you would improve all sorts of things like handling, range and acceleration.