The direct drive, air-cooled electric motor design utilises several novel technology bricks to reduce overall system complexity, cost and weight, with transversal flux topology delivering the highest possible torque density.
Through our active tests, the team was able to demonstrate active operation with full torque, confirming and validating our design assumptions.
“I am so pleased to see that we could achieve the torque values and the speed values that we expected,” said Markus Christmann, Chief Engineer of Urban Air Mobility at Rolls-Royce Electrical. “The updated test infrastructure and the air-cooled transversal flux motor worked together flawlessly.”