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Squirrel Cage Induction Motors have been around for years and have been used in Industry forever. No brushes, no magnets... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squir

• damianpeckett 14y ago
  And jack all low end torque, something very important to car applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Variation-couple-uf.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Variation-couple-uf.svg
  • frankus 14y ago
    With a variable-frequency drive (or better yet, flux vector control) you can achieve full torque at zero speed with a squirrel-cage motor.