It’s a synchronous motor. They’ve been around at least 100 years. Raw material wise sure they’re more “sustainable”. But, now you have to create and maintain a field for the armature. So we’ve replaced rare earth magnets with watts. 6 and one half dozen blah blah blah.

Awesome! We need a few more kids like that.

I love the alacrity in his expression in the video.

I don't know very much about motors. I knew not all motors' rotors required magnets, and now that I think about it stands to reason that there are some tradeoffs that make people use magnetic rotors for some applications.

If the technology really is better on certain figures of merit, it may find applications he's not even thinking of, unrelated to vehicles. Even if it doesn't work out, he has perseverance. "But eventually on the 15th motor, I was able to get a working prototype.” It's like Edison said, they're not failures, but finding out things that don't work, a little inspiration but mostly perspiration.

"“I don’t have tons of resources for making very advanced motors, and so I had to make a smaller version..." I bet investors will send resources his way soon.

Any chance it could be like John Galt's motor and turn static electricity into kinetic?

I hope Robert Sansone is not influenced negatively by industry leaders who tend to stifle innovation. The great inventors tend to ignore the naysayers and produce marvelous innovations that make our lives better.. I might be nitpicking but that thought came to mind when reading this…” Hofmann says of Sansone. “There's the potential that it could be the next big thing.” Though, he adds that many professors work on research their whole lives, and it’s “fairly rare that they end up taking over the world.”

Hofmann says the materials for synchronous reluctance motors are cheap, but the machines are complex and notoriously difficult to manufacture. High manufacturing costs are, therefore, a barrier to their widespread use—and a major limiting factor to Sansone’s invention.

Sansone agrees, but says “with new technologies like additive manufacturing [such as 3-D printing], it would be easier to construct it in the future.”

Before Sansone added his solution to increase efficiency and torque successfully, he would have been likely discouraged by the so called experts to advance his theory.

Cool, I'll take a look over the weekend.

Best save it when the magnetic fields and sun get back to normal though...sometime in the next cycle of civilization. This one is headed for it's end.

It unfortunate but this article is more about feeling good then reality.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but nearly all production EV motors are AC inductance motors with advanced electronics to control the motor. No magnet in an AC inductance motor so saving rare earth materials isn’t working here… As far as I know, no EV motors us permanent magnet motors. Maybe some include some aspects of permanent magnets but I’m unaware of that.

The AC inductance motor is a phenomenal design and the modern control algorithms allow you to dial in the speed and torque you wish to receive. Requires a computer to operate.

The environment spin in this article is pure fiction.