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electric motor
electric motor
noun
- a device that converts electrical energy to mechanical torque
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Word History and Origins
Origin of electric motor1
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Example Sentences
Now electric motors are available on consumer-facing bikes as well as shared options, like Citi Bikes.
It's just called the Porsche Taycan—no S, no Turbo, not even any numbers—and it differentiates itself from the other Taycans by virtue of having just a single electric motor, which drives the rear wheels.
For example, an electric aircraft from a company called Lilium uses many small ducted electric motors to provide lift and thrust, and another model from Bell uses four large ducted fans.
Available in rear-wheel or all-wheel drive, this plug-in hybrid has a new electric motor to boost overall power.
Additionally, the Mach-E can be equipped with a single motor driving the rear wheels or separate electric motors for each axle.
It has this small electric motor with this incredible compound gear that retrieves a steel cable.
In the same year Jacobi, in Germany, propelled a boat by electricity using an electric motor of his own invention.
Davenport came as near to solving the problem of an electric motor as was possible without the invention of Pacinotti.
A small voltaic battery, placed under the machine, serves to work the electric motor, and has to be replenished from time to time.
Sometime you may have to decide between different methods—man, horse, gasoline engine or electric motor power.
The electric motor is a machine which transforms the energy of an electric current into mechanical energy or motion.
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