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Electric cars are helping us forge a more eco-friendly future.
However, one environmental and design barrier to truly easy, sustainable-to-produce cars is the motors.
These elementsincluding neodymium, samarium, and dysprosiumare very expensive and their mining is detrimental to the environment.
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He focused on solving the problem of electric vehicle motors.
I have a natural interest in electric motors, Sansone said, who had used them in other projects.
With that sustainability issue, I wanted to tackle it, and try and design a different motor.
Sansone’s motor performed very well in tests. (Photo: Robert Sansone)
The reluctanceor magnetismof the steel rotor generates torque.
Sansone, however, chose to use a second magnetic field.
As a result, his motor has a higher saliency ratio and therefore more torque.
The experimental set up. (Photo: Robert Sansone)
The inventor cannot disclose more details, as he hopes to patent his design after further prototypes.
But eventually on the 15th motor, I was able to get a working prototype.
Hispresentationon his novel design won him first place.
One can only imagine what revolutionary inventions he will create next.
Sansones motor performed very well in tests.
(Photo: Robert Sansone)
He designed a revolutionary synchronous reluctance motor that outperforms competitors.
The experimental set up.
(Photo: Robert Sansone)
