Electric Motors, What's Actually Inside Them?
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Robert and James discuss all things to do with Electric Motors, what's inside them, common misunderstandings and overall sustainability. James is CEO and founder of Advanced Electrical Machines, a North East based company which develop sustainable electric drivetrains for commercial electric vehicles and also aerospace applications.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged plus podcast, very, very |
| 0:22.0 | interesting episode this is. I learnt a lot during this conversation genuinely. I was |
| 0:30.5 | scrolling down notes, I was trying to remember pieces of information really, really interesting. |
| 0:34.9 | What we're talking about today is electric motors, but I guess it would be fair to classify |
| 0:40.4 | these as the next generation of electric motors, much less material, lighter, very powerful, |
| 0:46.4 | very fast, not using rare earths. I'm going to let my guest today explain that by just a little |
| 0:55.1 | bit of background, which we didn't possibly cover in detail. We're talking to James Widmer, |
| 1:00.9 | who is the CEO and co-founder of a company called Advanced Electric Machines and they are based |
| 1:06.4 | in the northeast of England. The company was founded in 2017 and it was a spin-out from the New |
| 1:13.6 | Castle University's world-class electric motor research team, which James was leading for a long time. |
| 1:21.4 | So that is really, really, that's the background of what they were doing and they were developing, |
| 1:29.3 | essentially what sounds like to me much simpler, much simpler machines that use less |
| 1:37.0 | contentious materials. Iron and aluminium is basically what they're made of. I'm going to let James |
| 1:45.1 | explain all this, but before we start that, let's just have a brief word from our wonderful, |
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| 2:38.0 | future. Well, thank you to our sponsors. Let's just dive right in and please welcome to the |
| 2:46.4 | fully charged plus podcast James Windmer from Advanced Electric Machines. James, thank you so much |
| 2:54.8 | taking the time out of your busy schedule to produce these amazing things. I just want to say |
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