An obvious application for Composite
Motors Brushless DC Motors - BLDC and Switched
Reluctance motors is electric vehicles, and that includes vehicles of
all types; personal transport, carts, wheelchairs, bicycles, ATV's, lawn
and garden implements, industrial fork lifts, trucks, all electric
models and hybrid electric vehicles.
And although traction motors may top the list, it
is not the only application of motors in electric vehicles. Motors are used to actuate
wipers, windows, doors, tops, liquid pumps, fans, valves, seats,
winches, lifts, compressors and just about anything imaginable on a
wheel or track based vehicle. CMI
makes motors suitable for just about all of these applications, and
custom engineered solutions are available.
In fact CMI Traction motor units, with integral countershaft
gearing, were inspired in part by the electric vehicle industry. See also, Traction Motors
