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...
Read moreDetails
