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This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry
27 Aug 2022 | Abstracted from Smithsonian Magazine
"Sansone created a prototype of a novel synchronous reluctance motor that had greater rotational force - or torque - and efficiency than existing ones. The prototype was made from 3-D printed plastic, copper wires and a steel rotor...
"...his novel design exhibited 39 percent greater torque and 31 percent greater efficiency at 300 revolutions per minute (RPM). At 750 RPM, it performed at 37 percent greater efficiency."
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