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Technologue: Might self-excited synchronous motors be the next big thing?


here’s a new electric motor type that could be the next big thing. Most electric vehicles today employ motors that work in one of two ways. The easy way packs a bunch of strong permanent magnets into a rotor and surrounds them with electric windings that generate rotating electromagnetic fields to push the magnets around. Nikola Tesla discovered another way: Induce a current in metal bars or windings

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