Choosing a Motor Motor Types There are a number of motor technologies available. Different authorities classify them differently, but I will break them up based on their input: Motors where speed is regulated by voltage or current – DC series, DC shunt wound, DC compound wound, etc Motors where speed is regulated by the frequency read more »

Now that we understand the pieces we can buy to assemble the whole system, lets evaluate some possible routes. We have two types of motors to choose from: motor integrated into a wheel hub stand alone motor, connected to a wheel by a chain Hub motors are more expensive and heavy and give us less read more »

Designing a vehicle is like any other problem. We need to break it down into a few steps: understand the problem, and determine some key requirements to solve it learn about the tools at our disposal figure out how to put it all together So I have broken what used to be one page into read more »