Electric Car Motors Were Once Adaptations Of Surplus Airplane Starter-Generators

When electric car motors were first developed there were few economical options open to developers to make them, and so they were more or less adapted from surplus airplane starter-generators to form motors to drive electric cars. The real reason why developers chose starter-generators from aircraft was that these were quite inexpensive and also surplus and they had the right amount of power to move cars though they were no great shakes as far as performance was concerned though getting from one point to another was still possible.

Shift To Higher Power Motors

It did not take long before developers began using motors with higher power and soon the electric car motors began to get souped up and it was time to say goodbye to the slow and cumbersome electric cars and usher in more powerful ones. One should not be amazed by the lesser horsepower rating given to electric car motors even if they are rated from 3.5 to twenty-eight horsepower. Anyone that thinks in terms of gas engines will certainly find these ratings to be very low though it must be said that gas engines are rated at the peak horsepower while electric car motors are rated at continuous horsepower. And, peak horsepower ratings of the electric car motors are certainly eight to ten times that of its continuous horsepower rating.

No doubt, the numbers of electric car motors available today are much more and they come in all sizes and also match different performance requirements and it is quite common for most of these electric car motors to use series wound motors though there are also those with permanent magnets and some with AC motors while an odd untried wheel hub motor is also there to be found.

In any case, electric car motors are the very tip of the iceberg and a great beginning to the great machinery that goes into making an electric car what it is, and it is certainly a welcome change to the way that we are perceiving transportation and they are also very simple as well as concise in the manner of its operations. Most of the electric car motors that are being used today are being used to drive home converted cars that have been pieced together either by individuals or by groups of people, especially those with a penchant fro converting gasoline powered vehicles into electric cars.

With a new future in the offing, it may be time for us to shed some of our old school thought processes and learn that there are new implements such as electric car motors that are changing the way we will be looking at transportation in the future, and which will help shape a whole new breed of automobiles that will be cleaner and also more economical as well in the times to come.