2012 年 36 巻 3 号 p. 258-262
Electric vehicles have recently attracted attention as future generation cars. It is especially important to have electrically driven heavy vehicles such as buses and trailers that have little environmental influence. Switched reluctance (SR) motors have no magnets. This means they have no thermal demagnetization, are inexpensive to manufacture, and have excellent mechanical strength. These advantages are suitable for application to the In-Wheel SR motors of electric vehicles. We developed in-wheel SR motors for heavy vehicles and carried out a proof load test on them.