lanet Earth consumed 25 petawatts of electricity in 2020. That’s 25 hitched to 15 zeros. More than 40 percent of those electrons were routed through electromagnetic machines. Motors. Even modest improvements in electric-motor efficiency could save mankind gigawatts of power. So why do the workaday motors powering every mundane gadget look mostly like they did a half-century ago? Texas-based Infinitum has entered production with a new axial-flux motor design that promises a modest (10
Technologue
Feb 17, 2023
2 minutes
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