10 COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS OCTOBER 2017 INNOVATIVE MOTOR DESIGNS FOR ELECTRIC CARS COME TO LIFE Faraday Future designs motors for electric cars. By GEMMA CHURCH THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY IS IN THE MIDST OF A DISRUPTION, and the transcendence of electric vehicles from niche to mainstream is a driving force behind this change. Challenges remain to improve the motor designs used in electric vehicles. One potential solution is the use of power magnetic devices (PMDs), a category of devices that includes motors, generators, transformers, and inductors. In simple terms, these components utilize an electromagnetic field to convert electrical energy to mechanical energy, or vice versa. In the field of power engineering, and particularly in the design of PMDs, modern advances are targeted at

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