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Yasa continues to push electric motor boundaries

The Mercedes-owned electric motor company, Yasa, reckons it has built the world’s highest-density motor. Weighing in at 13.1kg, the UK firm says its latest axial flux motor produces 550kW. That’s 42kW per kg, over double the industry benchmark of 15kW per kg. Yasa says this is a new world record for motor power density, unofficially, across any sector, not just automotive. Prior to the company producing this, the most energy dense electric motor was the Equipmake HPM-400. That outputs 40kW per kg. Weighing 40kg, the Australian-produced...

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Big things coming from BYD 

Managing Editor, Richard Edwards, heads to China to check out what BYD has in store for us down here. And there is plenty.  BYD has been warning of a massive product onslaught for some time. That time appears to be now, with NZ Autocar joining management in China recently to check out the models likely to dot down here next. Some are exotic (more on those in a bit) but the most likely in the near future are a little more, well, modest. At the front of that wave are three new models either confirmed or highly likely for NZ:...

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