Evo Electric Launches Next Gen Axial Flux Motor

Evo Electric, the people behind the Axial Flux motor/generator technology which was featured in the first demonstration of a hybrid vehicle coming from Lotus, the Evora 414E Hybrid, announced today they have already developed the second generation of the technology.

The company says the new Axial Flux motor/generator will dramatically cut weight and volume of electric motor/generators, allowing for great gains in cost, performance and efficiency. Whereas the system developed for the Evora 414E Hybrid developed 207 ps and 400 Nm (295 lbft) of torque, the new unit promises peak power density of 5kW per kg (2.5kg/kW nominal). Bluntly put, this means a 33 percent increase over the previous generation of EVO motors.

“EVO’s Axial Flux technology is based on a new paradigm of machine design,” David Latimer, EVO Electric CEO said in a statement. “We are committed to bringing this exciting technology to market and by doing so to further accelerate the global trend toward powertrain hybridisation and electrification and more generally to lower-carbon vehicles.”

The trick will now be implementing the technology into future vehicles. Evo says they are working with several unnamed manufacturers (we reckon Lotus is among them) to find ways to implement the technology into different vehicle platforms.

So far, Evo has delivered the technology for use in vehicles which are rated at 268 hp but, as said, no info on who's experimenting with the Axial Flux motors has been provided.