There's no better way to meter precisely the right amount of torque to each corner of a vehicle than assigning each wheel its own electric motor. But that's way too expensive for everyday vehicles, so ...

The Rimac C_Two is a four-wheel-drive electric hypercar with four independent permanent-magnet electric motors and torque vectoring. It sends a combined 1,914 horsepower through a pair of two-speed ...

A few weeks ago, I went to the amazing Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum in Indiana, where I learned about an axle that has not just one gear ratio like in pretty much all modern cars, but two.

Well-dressed marketing gurus want you to believe that owning a rugged SUV with a 4x4 option will allow you to be young and in vogue with an active lifestyle. The “live young” marketing scheme has ...

This story appears in the Feb. 20 print edition of Transport Topics. Meritor Inc. and UQM Technologies Inc. announced an agreement to develop an integrated electric axle that would replace or downsize ...

Electric two-seat performance cars are not quite in their prime yet, but companies including Rimac, Porsche, General Motors, and more are working hard to get them on the road. British automaker ...

This year’s Wörthersee Tour GTI tuning fest is upon us and Volkswagen has revealed some exciting concepts. Last week we were treated to the production-bound Up! GTI concept and now we have details on ...