Motors the fastest growing EV market

In-wheel and near-wheel motors are coming in fast, meaning four motors instead of one and even six on a large truck.

The latest manned drones has one with 36 motors and fixed wing aircraft often plan 18 – that multiplier making the EV motor business grow much faster than EVs themselves, new report Electric Motors for Electric Vehicles 2020-2030 land, Water, Air says.

It explains and predicts what comes next for 101 categories of EV on land, water and in the air. The report outlines the issues and includes a comprehensive directory of suppliers.

IDTechEx chairman Dr Peter Harrop and research director Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh say the latest report edition is of vital interest to all in the EV value chain, from materials and component suppliers to parts and motor manufacturers, product integrators and vehicle manufacturers, also for planners.

Electric motors are the only components that appear in all EVs. Even batteries are sometimes replaced by supercapacitors, they say.

Every year, IDTechEx rewrites its definitive study of such motors.

This year the assessment based on a large number of visits, interviews and event attendance is particularly important because so many things are changing, Harrop says.

Understand the many reasons why the number of motors per vehicle is proliferating, making the motor+controller demand grow faster than EV demand, but that is partly offset by more vehicle manufacturers making their own motors, he says.

Chapter 3 covers 11 new trends in EV motors and their industry, one of which is new principles of electric propulsion.

Chapter 4 explores current design issues with advice from the leaders and patent analysis – including 48V mild hybrids and soon 48V full hybrids becoming a massive market of over 15 million yearly at peak for complex starter-motor-generators and sometimes two motor architectures.

A chapter on “Heavy duty EV motors off-road” reveals a newly large business for motors up to megawatts for land, water and air vehicles.

That includes construction, agriculture, mining, military, marine and passenger aircraft being prepared for market and out there already.

The 200-page report is replete with new graphs, tables, infograms and interview information, scoping around 200 organisations.

Contact research@IDTechEx.com or visit www.IDTechEx.com/Motors for more information.