Improving Electric Vehicles: Researchers Develop New High-Speed Motor

The new magnetically driven motor designed and built by a team at University of New South Wales. Courtesy of Guoyo Chu

A team of researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has developed a new record-breaking high-speed motor that could improve the range of electric vehicles (EV).

The new motor is the fastest Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (IPMSM) that has ever been built with commercialised lamination materials, achieving speeds of 100,000 revolutions per minute, doubling the speeds of all previous high-speed records of laminated IPMSM’s.