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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on May 06, 2008, 09:54:22 PM

Title: Ultra Motor
Post by: Plane on May 06, 2008, 09:54:22 PM
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Back in the Cold War 1970s, a Russian radio transmission specialist stationed in East Germany dreamed up a new, more efficient electric motor that could produce 35% more torque for the same amount of power. Vasily Shkondin's idea could have remained in obscurity behind the Iron Curtain, but today it's the centerpiece of a bold bid to reshape urban transport.

It has taken decades of refinement, millions in venture capital, and the audacious vision of a 31-year-old U.S. chief executive, but Shkondin's motor is going global. A six-year-old British startup called Ultra Motor ....

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2008/gb20080321_354116.htm