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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Third Edition, 3rd Edition
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Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

by Seth Leitman, Bob Brant
February 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
13h 14m
English
McGraw-Hill Education TAB
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CHAPTER 6Electric Motors

The superior AC system will replace the entrenched but inferior DC one.—George Westinghouse (from Tesla: Man Out of Time)

Electric motors are everywhere. In your house, almost every mechanical movement that you see around you is caused by an alternating-current (AC) or direct-current (DC) electric motor. A simple electric motor has six parts:

• Armature or rotor

• Commutator

• Brushes

• Axle

• Field magnet

• DC power supply of some sort1

By understanding how a motor works, you can learn a lot about magnets, electromagnets, and electricity in general. In this chapter you will learn what makes electric motors tick.

The heart of every electric vehicle (EV) is its electric motor. Electric motors come in all sizes, shapes, ...

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