The 2023 McLaren Artura is packed with fascinating new technology. It features an all new 120º twin-turbo V6 engine, as well as an axial-flux motor, for a combined output of 671 horsepower and 530 lb-ft of torque. Keeping everything together is a new carbon fiber monocoque, with a 7.4 kWh battery pack. Power is sent through a new 8-speed dual clutch transmission, which also houses the first electronic limited slip differential in a road-going McLaren.
What's the difference between radial flux and axial flux motors? What's so special about this new V6 engine? Watch to learn all about it!
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However, they’ve now created an electric motor that makes 330bhp but is somehow smaller than my head. That is madness. Two of these motors with a single inverter will make 660bhp and weigh less than 85kg.
The motor has been dubbed the ‘Quark’ which is actually a type of soft spreadable cheese and probably the noise a posh duck makes.
Unfortunately, that isn’t how it got its name. It’s much more complicated and scientific than that.
There’s no easy way to tell you the real definition of the term ‘Quark’, so I’ll just read it to you.
A Quark is ‘any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons’
Does that make sense to you? It doesn’t matter, let’s look at how it actually works.
The mystery that is magnetism is an important part of how electric motors work, and Koenigsegg have cleverly combined two methods to create the Quark E-Motor.
It uses something Raxial Flux, which sounds made up because it is. Koenigsegg got the name from a combination of ‘radial’ and ‘axial’ flux, which are two different ways that electric motors usually function.The two terms refer to the direction in which the motor's permanent magnets create the magnetic field. The radial does it in a radial direction, so basically more circular. The axial does it along an axis and is more perpendicular.
The 2023 McLaren Artura is packed with fascinating new technology. It features an all new 120º twin-turbo V6 engine, as well as an axial-flux motor, for a combined output of 671 horsepower and 530 lb-ft of torque. Keeping everything together is a new carbon fiber monocoque, with a 7.4 kWh battery pack. Power is sent through a new 8-speed dual clutch transmission, which also houses the first electronic limited slip differential in a road-going McLaren.
What's the difference between radial flux and axial flux motors? What's so special about this new V6 engine? Watch to learn all about it!
Engineering Explained is a participant in the Amazon Influencer Program.
However, they’ve now created an electric motor that makes 330bhp but is somehow smaller than my head. That is madness. Two of these motors with a single inverter will make 660bhp and weigh less than 85kg.
The motor has been dubbed the ‘Quark’ which is actually a type of soft spreadable cheese and probably the noise a posh duck makes.
Unfortunately, that isn’t how it got its name. It’s much more complicated and scientific than that.
There’s no easy way to tell you the real definition of the term ‘Quark’, so I’ll just read it to you.
A Quark is ‘any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons’
Does that make sense to you? It doesn’t matter, let’s look at how it actually works.
The mystery that is magnetism is an important part of how electric motors work, and Koenigsegg have cleverly combined two methods to create the Quark E-Motor.
It uses something Raxial Flux, which sounds made up because it is. Koenigsegg got the name from a combination of ‘radial’ and ‘axial’ flux, which are two different ways that electric motors usually function.The two terms refer to the direction in which the motor's permanent magnets create the magnetic field. The radial does it in a radial direction, so basically more circular. The axial does it along an axis and is more perpendicular.
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