Preliminary Design of Reluctance Motors for Light Electric Vehicles Driving

Abstract

The paper presents the aspects regarding FEM analysis of a reluctant motor for direct driving of the light electric vehicles. The reluctant motor take into study is of special construction suitable for direct drive of a light electric vehicle. It is an inverse radial reluctant motor, with a fixed stator mounted on front wheel shaft and an external toothed rotor fixed on the front wheel itself. A short presentation of preliminary design is continued with the FEM analysis in order to provide the optimal geometry of the motor and adequate windings.

Keywords

• electric bike
• FEM analysis
• inverse radial reluctant motor
• light electric vehicle
• in-wheel drive