Comment by willXare
2 days ago
"Replace the magnet with a controllable magnet" is probably the most automotive-engineering sentence possible.
2 days ago
"Replace the magnet with a controllable magnet" is probably the most automotive-engineering sentence possible.
Also known as: “we removed the rare earths and added software.”
Synchronous motors: running on software since the 1880s. Nikola really was ahead of his time!
He invented the induction motor which runs right off the grid.
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Rare earth magnet motors require software too if you want them to be maximally efficient. You could embody that software in e.g. an FPGA of course, but it's still software.
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