【#Tech24H】Recently, Harbin University of Science and Technology has successfully overcome a series of key technologies that enable high-performance in-wheel motors to move from the laboratory to the production line. The motors have been officially equipped on DongFeng eπ 007, China’s first mass-produced passenger car with four in-wheel motors. In-wheel motors replace the centralized drive motors traditionally mounted on a car’s chassis suspension by splitting power into multiple motors integrated into each wheel, allowing the wheels to drive themselves. As the world’s first mass-produced electric vehicle with in-wheel motors, this achievement not only gives China control over core drive technologies in the new energy vehicle industry but also provides a new paradigm of distributed drive for the automotive sector.