A 28-pound motor makes 1,000 hp — and Britain had to watch Germany build it (media.mercedes-benz.com)
Axial-flux motors are 'pancake' designs — far higher power density than the radial motors in normal EVs. Three of them give the AMG GT 4-Door a 0–100 km/h of 2.1 seconds.
An engineer who'd watched the field warned that betting on hideously complex manufacturing is exactly how Europe's auto industry is painting itself into a corner.
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