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28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower (supercarblondie.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Maker website: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-density-world-record-pushing-state-of-the-art-electric-motor-to-staggering-new-59kw-kg-benchmark/

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Until someone tests it independently, this should be considered BS.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

28 pounds = 12.7kg, for those wondering.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

But, how much is that in baby elephants?

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Roughly a tenth of a baby elephant, or around two round trips of your neurons on a single line reaching the moon

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 points 4 hours ago

The size is less of an issue than the power usage.

Does it also use 1000% more power to get that strength?

The only real benefit in that case would be robot mech suits.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

cant wait for corporations to crush the competition with some bullshit yet again and then complain that we're at peak EV tech anyway

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 38 points 9 hours ago

Everything but metric.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So when are we going to see these in trains?

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Trains don't benefit much from lesser weight.

Drones, and planes are the most likely to benefit from this.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Assuming that flying with an electric motor is a viable option (I have zero clue, but from what I heard currently its not that realistic that we will get electric planes)

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 2 points 24 minutes ago

Small electric planes already exist. But yeah not passenger planes or to go any useful distance for the foreseeable future

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The main weight in an electric plane is a battery, and the energy density in that isn't good enough yet, and it's possible that it can't be better with the current batteries we have, and we need a battery on a different set of elements

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