Summary YASA just announced a prototype axial-flux motor with an unprecedented 59 kW/kg peak power density. That’s roughly triple the power density of today’s top EV motors. In this post,I take a quick engineering look at what’s behind this number…

On Eddy-Current Iron Losses
Preface I had already written this post up to the analytical methods section when WordPress saw fit to lose all my progress for some reason. So, if you get an aura of pissed-offness from the first few sections, it’s not…