Electric motors are easy to make; remember those experiments with wire-wrapped nails? But what’s easy to make is often hard to engineer, and making a motor that’s small, light, and powerful can be ...

ICE vehicles are projected to represent the majority of the European car parc in 2035, and ignition coils remain a high-replacement component with sustained demand.

Finding just the right off-the-shelf part to complete a project is a satisfying experience – buy it, bolt it on, get on with business. Things don’t always work out so easily, though, which often ...

Project Single Turbo has undergone extensive upgrades to its engine and supporting systems, most notably fuel and air delivery. To take control of these, we’ve installed a standalone ECU and upgraded ...

Earlier this month, we heard about the development partnership between the well-known Zero Motorcycles and Vancouver, BC-based Exro Technologies, which works on how to improve electric motors in ...

The linear voice coil motor (aka linear DC motor) is guided by a long-life plain bearing that can allow side loads up to 3 lb (13.5 N), while the precision ground 0.236-inch (6.0 mm) diameter shaft ...

Reducing the weight of transportation like electric vehicles, drones, and spacecraft can lower energy consumption and improve battery efficiency. A key material that enables this lightweighting has ...

Let's face it, many problem areas in custom trucks don't rear their ugly heads until the manufacturer has already built hundreds of thousand of trucks and SUVs. For instance, Ford's Coil on Plug (CoP) ...

Machine and robot builders recognize linear motor benefits, but some are reluctant to integrate the components into design because of incomplete understanding of the technology. Here we overcome that ...

The car is not going to disappear anytime soon and neither is the combustion engine, despite the inevitable rise in fuel prices. We have said it before, electrical motors are an energy-efficient ...

This Design Idea further develops a previous one integrating a stepper-motor driver in a CPLD (Reference 1). However, this idea integrates not only the driver, but also a simple one-axis stepper-motor ...