Lucid has just released the fourth installment in its Tech Talk series that describes various elements of company’s first offering, the Air sedan. This latest video is arguably the most interesting to many people because it explains the fundamentals of electric motors, how they work and what Lucid did to create a motor whose power density is “well beyond anything else offered on the EV market.”
The host for this video is Lucid founder, CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson, an engineer by training, who does a great job of explaining some fairly complex physics. He starts by going into the basics of how torque and energy work, as well as how they are affected by the number of rotations per minute, gearing and other factors - it’s quite a good watch even if you think you know how electric motors work, although you will need over an hour free to watch the video in its entirety.
