Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris

Ubergrunt writes "A Welsh engineering company has made a motor to be used on electric cars that will make them as fast as a Ferrari. "The motor is revolutionary in that it contains no bulky permanent magnets. Instead it relies on transmitting electric pulses across up to seven rotors, arranged in different phases. These are "fired up" in turn, much like the pistons of an internal combustion engine. There are no gears - the motor provides enough torque at one revolution per minute to put a vehicle into motion - and it spins at up to 2,500rpm. "Size for size, we can provide 400% more torque than any type of motor currently available," says managing director John Bryant."

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Re:the oil and car industry will band together

[elrous0]

Battery limitations

Yep, plus

1. Cost of manufacture
2. Cost of repairs
3. Its complexity and propensity for breadkdowns, see #2
4. No cool "Vroom, vroom" sound to show how big your penis is

And the oil industry is too busy reaping ridiculous profits off their stooge in the White House to tremble in their boots even if this was a threat.

-Eric