Electric vehicles have become an increasingly common sight for most people. Whether it’s seeing a shiny new Tesla drive down the road, or hopping on a light rail teach or renting a power scooter to obtain from that train to your house, EVs are everywhere.

One problem with electric motors is that due to the speeds at which they rotate, to be useful generally in most vehicles, they want a gear reduction device. I’d call it a transmission, but generally, these gearboxes only have one swiftness. This takes the 10,000 rpm from a drive electric motor and reduces the rate at the tires while multiplying torque.

What if there were a motor that didn’t need to spin as fast as that to create enough usable power and torque to drive a vehicle? If that existed, you could change all sorts of reasons for gear reduction motor having electric car design. If you didn’t need a gearbox, you’ll save a good-size chunk of weight and, probably a lot more crucially, space.

With that space, you could raise the size of your battery pack, and with the reduced weight, you would improve all types of things such as handling, range and acceleration.